Surfer

Surfer, originally known as Surfer Carrying a Surfboard, is a sample picture included in Windows XP Release Candidate 1 builds 2474 to 2485, licensed from Corbis. It was taken by the late Craig Aurness, the co-founder of Westlight, a stock photo agency Corbis acquired in 1998. It depicts a male surfer walking across the beach at Waimea, Hawaii, USA with a surfboard. Much like the other RC1 sample pictures (excluding Winter forest), it was not included in the final release of XP. It was transferred to Getty Images when VCG acquired Corbis in 2016, but became a restricted asset in early 2020 when Getty discontinued rights-managed licensing in favor of royalty free licensing; it was not converted to royalty free, so it was taken down in late 2020.