Abstract
Abstract stock photos and backgrounds: textures, patterns, light, colour and reflection. Real photographic backgrounds from independent photographers, royalty-free for web design, presentations and print.
1,694 images
Small glossy red onions and papery outer skins on grey background.
£6.00Small glossy red onions and papery outer skins on grey background.
£6.00High angle close up of slices of pumpkin on blue background.
£6.00High angle close up of cleaver and slices of pumpkin on blue background.
£6.00Colorful Clothes Hangers
£6.00Wind Turbine Shadow
£6.00Colorful Stairwell
£6.00Detail on an Ornamental Door
£6.00Colorful Origami Cranes
£6.00Door and Lock Detail
£6.00Colorful Origami Cranes
£6.00Abstract Reflections, Inle Lake, Myanmar
£6.00Slices of organic starfruit on white background
£6.00Slices of organic starfruit on a white background
£6.00Western sword fern, a single leaf with leaves spaced evenly up the stem. Polystichum…
£6.00Slice of organic ruby red grapefruit on white background
£6.00Western sword fern, a single leaf with leaves spaced evenly up the stem. Polystichum…
£6.00A brown maple leaf, frozen and frosted, lying on a sheet of ice, with jagged patterns…
£6.00Autumnal foliage. Three maple leaves in orange and red, laid on a black rock background.
£6.00A vivid red leaf lying on the wet grass. Autumn.
£6.00A vivid green maple leaf glistening in the rain, against a background of brown autumn…
£6.00Tundra and caribou antlers in Denali National Park, Alaska in the fall. Mount McKinley…
£6.00Chess Board Strategy
£6.00Chess Board Strategy
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About our abstract stock photos
Abstract photography gives designers something no vector gradient can: the depth and irregularity of the real world. This collection is made of textures (stone, wood, fabric, water), patterns found in nature and architecture, light — sunbursts, bokeh, long exposures — and colour studies that work as backgrounds behind type.
They are most often used as website heroes, presentation backgrounds, report covers and social templates, and because they carry no recognisable people or places they come with the fewest usage questions in the whole library. If you are building a brand system, browsing by colour and texture through the keyword links below is a good way to assemble a coherent set.
All images are royalty-free under our Standard licence from 1 credit (£6), delivered in full resolution the moment you check out.