Azul

Azul, originally known as Sailing on the Blue Sea, is a wallpaper included in Windows XP, licensed from Corbis. It was taken by Bill Ross, who also took Tulips which was also included in XP. Like Bliss, it also came from Westlight, a small stock photo agency bought by Corbis in 1998. It depicts a boat next to a small island with a palm tree on turquoise water. None of its pages on stock photo sites specified where it was taken, but people speculated that it was taken in the Caribbean. Some people also suspected that the image was a digital composite, akin to Red moon desert. It would later be confirmed by Ross himself that it was taken at Aitutaki, Cook Islands. However, it has been discovered that the copy in Windows XP has a tag of "Motu", which could imply it was actually taken at Motu One, French Polynesia.

It was briefly taken down from Getty Images in January 2020, along with many other photos, due to Getty discontinuing rights-managed licenses. However, it returned as a royalty free image, oddly being placed in The Image Bank collection along with other Westlight photos.

History
Bill Ross was on a trip to the Cook Islands in 1991. As a full time stock photographer, he was looking to take tropical stock photos, so he arranged a private tour at Aitutaki, where he took Azul at the lagoon south of the island, using Fuji 50 film. All of this info was provided during correspondence with Ross in late 2019/early 2020.

The copy included in Windows XP has a tag, "Motu", likely referring to Motu One, French Polynesia. This could hint that either Ross was getting mixed up or misremembering the location, or it had been falsely tagged when it was uploaded to Westlight.