Season collection

Winter wallpapers

Quiet light, bare branches, blue snow

292 wallpapers · season palette

The Winter collection — Quiet light, bare branches, blue snow — pulls together 292 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 winter 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.

Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 39
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 39 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 40
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 40 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 41
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 41 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 42
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 42 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 43
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 43 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 44
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 44 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 46
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 46 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 47
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 47 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 49
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 49 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 52
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 52 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 57
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 57 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 59
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 59 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 68
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 68 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 80
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 80 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 85
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 85 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 87
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 87 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 91
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 91 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 99
Global Coastline Rebellion protest Berlin 2022-02-04 99 Leonhard Lenz · 8368 × 5584
Gobi Desert dunes
Gobi Desert dunes Richard Mortel · 4032 × 3024
Gokyo Ri summit, Gokyo Lake, Nepal, Himalayas
Gokyo Ri summit, Gokyo Lake, Nepal, Himalayas Vyacheslav Argenberg · 4027 × 2685
Goðafoss Waterfall, Iceland, 20240716 0832 1077
Goðafoss Waterfall, Iceland, 20240716 0832 1077 Jakub Hałun · 5477 × 3638
Gurudongmar Lake Sikkim, India (edit)
Gurudongmar Lake Sikkim, India (edit) Original: Yoghya Derivative work: UnpetitproleX · 6000 × 4000
Gustave Le Gray (French - Seascape with Sailing Ship and Tugboat - Google Art Project
Gustave Le Gray (French - Seascape with Sailing Ship and Tugboat - Google Art Project Gustave Le Gray · 4395 × 3174
Henri Rousseau - The Waterfall - Google Art Project
Henri Rousseau - The Waterfall - Google Art Project Henri Rousseau · 6443 × 4927
ICE ERO SRT pose for a photograph in front of the Freedom Tower (50044147188)
ICE ERO SRT pose for a photograph in front of the Freedom Tower (50044147188) usicegov · 3240 × 2160
ICE ERO SRT pose for a photograph in front of the Freedom Tower (50044968512)
ICE ERO SRT pose for a photograph in front of the Freedom Tower (50044968512) usicegov · 3240 × 2160
ISS-66 Atmospheric plume from 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption - edited
ISS-66 Atmospheric plume from 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption - edited NASA / Kayla Barron · 5568 × 3594
ISS034E016601 - Stratocumulus Clouds - Pacific Ocean
ISS034E016601 - Stratocumulus Clouds - Pacific Ocean ISS Expedition 34 Crew Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space C… · 4256 × 2832
Ice Sculptor 1 (Cavalcade of Lights 2021, Toronto)
Ice Sculptor 1 (Cavalcade of Lights 2021, Toronto) Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon) · 8352 × 6336
Ice Sculptor 2 (Cavalcade of Lights 2021, Toronto)
Ice Sculptor 2 (Cavalcade of Lights 2021, Toronto) Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon) · 6555 × 4286
Ice Texture
Ice Texture Jenn Richardson · 5000 × 3333
Ice cave on Olkhon island
Ice cave on Olkhon island Sergey Pesterev · 7360 × 4912
Ice cream truck beach
Ice cream truck beach Daniel Schwen · 4368 × 2912
Ice crystals bud 20200121
Ice crystals bud 20200121 Daniel Kraft · 4179 × 3114
Ice field near the shore at sunset
Ice field near the shore at sunset Александр Байдуков · 6675 × 3755
Ice off the coast at sunset
Ice off the coast at sunset Александр Байдуков · 7360 × 4912

Each Winter wallpaper here is paired with its biome on the detail page, so you can pivot from a Winter 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 Winter 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.