Season collection

Summer wallpapers

Long light, warm wind, deep color

231 wallpapers · season palette

The Summer collection — Long light, warm wind, deep color — pulls together 231 landscapes whose only true subject is the season itself. Light angle, color temperature, atmospheric haze, the presence or absence of leaves and snow: these are the quiet signals that tell you, before you've read any caption, what month you are looking at. Curating by season is one of the most honest ways to organize landscape photography, because it groups images by the conditions that produced them rather than by the geography they happen to depict.

Use this collection when you want a wallpaper that matches the season you are currently in — or, just as often, the season you wish you were in. A summer landscape on a dreary Wednesday afternoon does honest emotional work that stock photography cannot. The grid is sorted to mix biomes deliberately, so you'll move from forest to coast to high desert without the page settling into one note.

Kazakh yurts at night in the Kyzylkum desert, Uzbekistan
Kazakh yurts at night in the Kyzylkum desert, Uzbekistan Carsten Siegel · 8159 × 5442
Khao Sok primary tropical rainforest, southern Thailand
Khao Sok primary tropical rainforest, southern Thailand Vyacheslav Argenberg · 4032 × 2688
Kinabalu Parks area near Langanan Waterfalls
Kinabalu Parks area near Langanan Waterfalls Chugikxt · 4000 × 3000
Kolob Canyons part of Zion National Park
Kolob Canyons part of Zion National Park Michael Gäbler · 2087 × 1330
Lake Bondhus Norway 2862
Lake Bondhus Norway 2862 Alchemist-hp (talk) (www.pse-mendelejew.de) · 5611 × 3735
Lake Grdzeli, Lagodekhi Protected Area, Georgia 02
Lake Grdzeli, Lagodekhi Protected Area, Georgia 02 Giorgi Balakhadze · 3264 × 1840
Lake Kinney mit Mount Whitehorn
Lake Kinney mit Mount Whitehorn Florian Fuchs · 4928 × 3264
Lake Shkopeti, Albania
Lake Shkopeti, Albania Pudelek · 3600 × 2400
Lake Tahoe at morning - 7-2023
Lake Tahoe at morning - 7-2023 John D. · 9504 × 5028
Lake mapourika NZ
Lake mapourika NZ Richard Palmer · 2048 × 1536
Lonely road through tropical rainforest and karst formations in Surat Thani wilderness, Thailand
Lonely road through tropical rainforest and karst formations in Surat Thani wilderness, Thailand Vyacheslav Argenberg · 4032 × 2688
Malpe Sea Walk Aerial
Malpe Sea Walk Aerial KshitizBathwal · 2881 × 2160
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 112511
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 112511 Dietmar Rabich · 5973 × 4480
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 113004
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 113004 Dietmar Rabich · 4480 × 2520
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2720
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2720 Dietmar Rabich · 6687 × 4458
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2721
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2721 Dietmar Rabich · 6720 × 4480
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2722
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2722 Dietmar Rabich · 6720 × 4480
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2723
Markleeville (CA, USA), Lake Alpine -- 2022 -- 2723 Dietmar Rabich · 6720 × 4480
Meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) nymph Oxford
Meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) nymph Oxford Charles J. Sharp · 1859 × 1240
Meadow on the Kozachij island in the Dnipro river. Ukraine
Meadow on the Kozachij island in the Dnipro river. Ukraine Ввласенко · 6640 × 3299
Milwaukee Public Museum March 2023 42 (The Prairie--The True Prairie, Cayler Prairie, Iowa)
Milwaukee Public Museum March 2023 42 (The Prairie--The True Prairie, Cayler Prairie, Iowa) Michael Barera · 6000 × 4000
Mono Lake South Tufa August 2013 012
Mono Lake South Tufa August 2013 012 King of Hearts (talk · contribs) · 4740 × 3160
Mountain and tundra landscape in Ivvavik National Park, YT
Mountain and tundra landscape in Ivvavik National Park, YT Daniel Case · 5316 × 3276
Myocastor coypus on a branch in Oise River Compiègne France
Myocastor coypus on a branch in Oise River Compiègne France Basile Morin · 3256 × 2171
Namdae stream water reflection of colorful clouds from Wolhwagyo bridge in Gangneung South Korea
Namdae stream water reflection of colorful clouds from Wolhwagyo bridge in Gangneung South Korea Basile Morin · 6687 × 4179
Nathorst glacier, Svalbard, at midnight sun
Nathorst glacier, Svalbard, at midnight sun AWeith · 5468 × 3076
Oak in the middle of the meadow. Kozachij island in the Dnipro river. Ukraine
Oak in the middle of the meadow. Kozachij island in the Dnipro river. Ukraine Ввласенко · 8507 × 4114
Okinawa Commemorative National Government Park Ocean Exposition Area Aerial photograph.1977
Okinawa Commemorative National Government Park Ocean Exposition Area Aerial photograph.1977 国土交通省 · 6611 × 4758
Orange sunset at seascape - Greece v2
Orange sunset at seascape - Greece v2 Christopher · 3835 × 2876
Oregon Coast - panoramio (1)
Oregon Coast - panoramio (1) Erwin Kreijne · 3264 × 2448
Oregon Coast sunset (48728966517)
Oregon Coast sunset (48728966517) BLM Oregon & Washington · 2016 × 980
Oregon Coast wildflowers (48357345251)
Oregon Coast wildflowers (48357345251) BLM Oregon & Washington · 1832 × 1030
Oregon coast (7971649432)
Oregon coast (7971649432) Angelo DeSantis from Berkeley, US · 2400 × 1596
Oregon coast - Saddle Mountain (14394313438)
Oregon coast - Saddle Mountain (14394313438) Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren · 4928 × 3264
Oregon coast - Saddle Mountain (14394515117)
Oregon coast - Saddle Mountain (14394515117) Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren · 4928 × 3264
Oregon coast - Saddle Mountain (14394517677)
Oregon coast - Saddle Mountain (14394517677) Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren · 4928 × 3264

Each Summer wallpaper here is paired with its biome on the detail page, so you can pivot from a Summer mountain image to other mountain photographs without losing the season filter. We re-curate this collection a few times a year as new photographs come in, so check back if you've already worked through the obvious favorites.

Cross-reference this season

The Summer collection mixes biomes by design. To narrow to a single biome, jump to forest, mountain, ocean, desert, coast, canyon, glacier, lake, river, meadow, jungle, or tundra.