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
Fallen yellow autumn leaves on grass in Tokyo, Japan
£6.00Defocussed dark clouds with sunlight clearing, Seattle, WA USA
£6.00A city at night, blurred view, pinpoints of light, a cityscape, buildings and colours.
£6.00Blurred tail lights in urban road scene, Seattle
£6.00Aged and textured cinder block wall with fading blue, green, and purple paint in Isla…
£6.00Blurred headlights and tail lights at night, abstract patterns.
£6.00Chain link fence topped with barbed and razor wire, Portland, Oregon, USA
£6.00View of sunlit autumn leaves on a tree branch.
£6.00Motion blurred ocean waves, ripples in the surface.
£6.00Extreme closeup of double yellow lines painted on the roadway
£6.00Puget Sound at dusk, motion blurred water surface.
£6.00Tropical plant, in Gaiser Conservartory, Manito Park, Spokane
£6.00Closeup of broken glass in window pane
£6.00Motion blurred water flowing over stones in the Lyre River, Olympic Peninsula, Joyce,…
£6.00View of the lights of a city at night, blurred pinpoints of light, colours and shapes.
£6.00White Sands National Park, Alamogordo, view of a white sand slope with ridges and shadows.
£6.00Blurred tail lights in urban road scene at night, Seattle
£6.00Home Plate on Baseball Field covered with dirt, top view
£6.00Detailed close-up of the textured trunk of a palm tree in Isla Mujeres, showing…
£6.00Arrow pointing up on bright yellow wall, Cancun, Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo
£6.00Extreme closeup of double yellow lines, parallel painted lines on the roadway leading away
£6.00Motion blurred ocean waves
£6.00Sand and Mud Patterns in the Estuary of the Dyfi;;Ynyslas;Aberdyfi
£6.00Details of the carved stone wall surrounding the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
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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.