It was briefly taken down from Getty Images in January 2020, along with many other photos, due to Getty discontinuing rights-managed licenses. It was titled "Azul" for the English release, which is Spanish for "blue" the Spanish and Portuguese releases also title it Azul. It was one of the first new wallpapers to be included with the operating system, along with Bliss, Follow (then titled Follow me), Moon flower, Red moon desert and Vortec space. In 2000, Microsoft licensed it for use in Windows XP, then codenamed Whistler. All of this info was provided during correspondence with Ross in late 2019/early 2020. He felt that the trip was "quite productive and easily paid for itself". As a full time stock photographer, he was "aggressively" looking to take tropical stock photos, so he arranged a private boat tour at Aitutaki, where he took Azul at the lagoon south of the island, using Fuji 50 film. Bill Ross was on a trip to the Cook Islands in 1991.
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