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.
1,563 images
A tall rock cairn made by hikers to mark a spot on a walking path.
£6.00Several small stone cairns, made by balancing rocks in a pile.
£6.00A puffin on the cliffs of Dyrholaey.
£6.00Colorful Yarn
£6.00Architectural Details of the Amber Fort
£6.00Helicopter Shadow
£6.00Colorful Buddha Tiles
£6.00View of garden with flowerbed with shrubs and purple flowers and plant bed divided by…
£6.00View of garden with tree and bed of purple flowers, cottage in background.
£6.00Profile of a Raven with a black background, California.
£6.00Close up of a carnivorous pitcher plant, a Sarracenia.
£6.00Floor boards, Bhutan
£6.00The fibrous skeletons of willow and alder leaves on an icy surface in Alaska.
£6.00Namib Desert, Namibia
£6.00Torii gates, Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Honshu, Japan
£6.00A collection of blue, red and silver ornaments arranged in a triangular shape on a…
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A woman threading Christmas shiny round ornaments on a piece of string. A small group…
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A person using secateurs or cutters on string. A box of pine cones.
£6.00An arrangement of six wooden spoons of a variety of shapes and sizes on a wooden table.
£6.00A woman sitting at a table reading a book. A glass bowl of red shiny baubles, and a…
£6.00Namib Desert, Namibia
£6.00Sand dunes of he Namib Desert
£6.00Namib Desert, Namibia
£6.00Home cooking. A wooden table with a varied wood grain and colour. Five wooden spoons…
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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.