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50 Remarkable Nature Wallpapers

By Smashing Editorial, July 11th, 2008 in Graphics | 185 Comments | Forum

When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful eye-catching perspectives we would never have explored otherwise. We have collected hundreds of wallpapers already (see links below). In this post we would like to focus on wallpapers which emphasize the variety and beauty of nature.

This post showcases 50 remarkable nature desktop wallpapers. This post covers various themes and subjects; we have included both photographic and artistic (photo-manipulated) wallpapers. Hopefully, everybody will find something from himself / herself.

You may want to take a look at related posts:

50 Remarkable Nature Desktop Wallpapers

Hamad Darwish’s Wallpapers
A photo collection of the images taken during Microsoft’s Windows Vista photo-shoot. Two of which are currently shipped in the Vista installation disk, while the rest did not make the cut into Vista’s Wallpaper Collection.

the magic tree -wallpaper pack by =mpk

A Rorschach Morning

Desktopography 2008

distraction - WP Pack Collab by =mpk

Aker by *Kobhen

June 15:crying grass. by *Cute-Sleepwalker
Only 1024×768px.

Another 17 Fantastic Free Wallpaper Images @ Crestock.com Blog

Tower Bridge. by ~phyzer

Fresh Water by ~norbi

Autumn by ~sican

Green Snake by ~elliquote

Jeffrey Klassen photos

Darkness To Light

The Blue Jay

Moody Waters

Boone Hall Plantation

Hilltop Mountain Skys

Sea Sharks

Snowy Peaks

Sunset at the Bay

Crashing Wave Wallpaper

Planet Football by ~meatcar

The Running Horse

Waterfall

Hummingbird

Another Day On The Terrace by Shane66.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse "The Yaquina Head Light also known as Cape Foulweather Lighthouse, is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States. Built in 1873, it was automated in 1966 and is currently an active aid to navigation".

Cloudy Day II "From a small boat harbour in Denmark".

Garp Wallpaper by trenchmaker 1600×1200 px.

Wafting 1600×1200, 1680×1050 and 1280×1024 px.

Its All Tears.

THE RIGHT WAY by designed shilk 1680×1050 px .

The Right Way

Eis.

lonely soul by werol 1024×768 px.

Silence of The Storm by angelreich 1200×798 px.

Day subsiding designed by memod.

Golden Sea by tonyelieh.

Pacific City.

Sources and Resources

Published in Graphics, July 11th, 2008
Tags: beauty, desktop, nature, wallpapers

1.

Niki Brown (July 11th, 2008, 3:52 am)

ohhhhh I love the colors of the haybail one! thanks!
2.

Ben (July 11th, 2008, 5:01 am)

awesome collection. i love using wallpapers like these to randomly rotate on my desktop every day

thanks smashing
3.

Jo (July 11th, 2008, 5:14 am)

This is the main reason I keep coming back to your site!! Amazing!
4.

Snob (July 11th, 2008, 5:52 am)

a little on the kitsch side…
5.

greven (July 11th, 2008, 5:56 am)

Hi, Smashingmagazine! Thanks a lot for the reference to my Website. :)

Great collection, again! ;)
6.

Olivier (July 11th, 2008, 6:08 am)

Still waiting for a collection of stunning dual-monitor wallpapers!
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Ben jacob (July 11th, 2008, 6:48 am)

Wow ! Fantastic collection
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nikhil (July 11th, 2008, 7:16 am)

bloody hell!
9.

Jeff (July 11th, 2008, 7:31 am)

beautiful wallpapers thanks
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Alain (July 11th, 2008, 9:04 am)

I always wonder why everything has to be so high contrast !
There are a few exceptions but geez we will soon need sunglasses to look at pictures !
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ScreenRant.com (July 11th, 2008, 9:16 am)

Linkbait, but still a great post. Picked one out for myself as a matter of fact. :-)

Vic
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sunny beach (July 11th, 2008, 10:19 am)

I’ve seen this on digg.com somewhere?
13.

ericb (July 11th, 2008, 10:32 am)

Big thanks to you guys @ Smashing Magazine for this great collection! Love everything here especially the “Sunset at the Bay”. Good Job!
14.

fijis (July 11th, 2008, 11:00 am)

Terrific post.
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Rick (July 11th, 2008, 11:58 am)

I second the dual-monitor wallpaper request. I need some of those.
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Malcolm (July 11th, 2008, 12:49 pm)

Definately Smashing

Thanks :)
17.

mpk (July 11th, 2008, 1:16 pm)

thanks for featuring two of my wallpapers :)
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Marc Dandoy (July 11th, 2008, 3:10 pm)

These are amazing! I love “distraction”
19.

ncus (July 11th, 2008, 5:07 pm)

perfect time for my wallpaper change :-)
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Tom (July 12th, 2008, 1:26 am)

Most of the wallpapers are incredibly beautiful, altough I think - as others mentioned here - that the contrast of the pictures in the last years immensively increases, what makes natural pictures a bit unnatural. This is of course also a product of the possibilities of digital environments and it’s usage. It is definitely different to analogue photography.
However, this is a great list to choose one or more of my future wallpapers :)
21.

André (July 12th, 2008, 3:39 am)

wow, some awesome pics!
22.

well well (July 12th, 2008, 3:41 am)

they are somehow too kitschy for me
23.

alex_pk (July 12th, 2008, 6:25 am)

very nice

thx
24.

kebab (July 12th, 2008, 10:27 am)

*dropjaw* i was living in another land till 1st comments by Niki Brown’s snapped me back to reality. :o(
25.

Tristina (July 12th, 2008, 11:57 am)

Beautiful.

The garp one reminds me of the forest spirits in Princess Mononoke…I love it.
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Emanuel ( kobhen ) (July 12th, 2008, 1:37 pm)

thanks for featuring Aker!! very nice selection :D
27.

Anwar Vazquez (July 12th, 2008, 4:25 pm)

remarkable selection, realy wonderful. Thanks for share them.
28.

sikantis (July 12th, 2008, 6:19 pm)

You are right, nature is the best artist! The wallpapers are just amazing!
29.

Shah mehdi (July 12th, 2008, 7:36 pm)

nice . thank you .
30.

Angelie (July 13th, 2008, 12:17 am)

Though I usually love SM articles, I must admit that this review is quite deceiving. Being a environmental person, I have collected hundreds of nature wallpapers and the one presented here are mostly boring and/or common (all but both beautiful bird pic: the jay and the hummingbird).

What about the National Geographic archive of pictures offered as wallpapers? These are some of the most stunning nature photographs you can get!
31.

nuLL (July 13th, 2008, 2:17 am)

Amazing wallpapers well done!
32.

blacksnoopy (July 13th, 2008, 2:59 am)

Awesome
33.

Alla (July 13th, 2008, 5:50 am)

enchanting beauty!
34.

gr8pixel (July 13th, 2008, 9:13 am)

I really like Vladstudio wallpapers. They are so awesome!! :D
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danilo di moia (July 13th, 2008, 10:15 am)

WOW :-)
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kayzah (July 13th, 2008, 11:55 am)

I don’t like one of these.
The further collection was much better.
37.

NeoSheet (July 13th, 2008, 11:15 pm)

i love this one: distraction - WP Pack Collab by =mpk
fresh and out of my imaginations, thanx Smashing ;)
38.

OverZero.it (July 13th, 2008, 11:34 pm)

GREAT!
Thank you very much.
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Nathan Beck (July 14th, 2008, 12:32 am)

Yeh some absolutely amazin pics there. I particularly like the sun through the woods. It seems a lot of them look like they’re done with HDR which is getting pretty overused at the mo but does look really cool.
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Rakesh.S (July 14th, 2008, 1:27 am)

This is fantastic.. Really inspiring.
Keep posting.
41.

Danyela (July 14th, 2008, 1:34 am)

Good choice!
I like a lot! Dany
42.

iyeler (July 14th, 2008, 1:41 am)

very nice!
43.

Igor Klajo (July 14th, 2008, 1:44 am)

Fantastic wallpapers… Thanks
44.

dimas budiman (July 14th, 2008, 5:13 am)

wow… really cool picture!!
45.

benrulz (July 14th, 2008, 8:49 am)

Amazing collection..!!
46.

Kristian (July 14th, 2008, 3:16 pm)

I know waterfall wallpapers are becoming abit of a cliche but that one is AMAZING, the water looks so clear and perfect :O
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Jurjen74 (July 14th, 2008, 11:57 pm)

Mmm… most are HDR, I think…. Not that I don’t like HDR, but it isn’t nature anymore :)
48.

Barend (July 15th, 2008, 2:06 am)

amazing
49.

pieman (July 17th, 2008, 1:14 am)

blimey, i feel like it’s 1986 all over again and i’ve just walked into my local ‘athena’ cheesy poster shop…
50.

Min Thu (July 20th, 2008, 5:02 am)

Very beautiful wallpapers!
51.

Nima (July 20th, 2008, 12:33 pm)

very nice picture , design and walllpapers
tnx ;)
52.

cxian (July 21st, 2008, 5:02 am)

smash me more! :)
53.

Barida (July 25th, 2008, 1:44 am)

It was beautiful.i love them and also u very much thnks a lot
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LOKESH (July 25th, 2008, 1:45 am)

incredible scene, superv, nice to watch and allow the same to my dekstop everyday by changing any one of wallpaper.
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smit (August 2nd, 2008, 2:44 am)

Now thats MIND BLOWING
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viory (August 3rd, 2008, 1:46 pm)

here are some amazing Link [www.3datadesign.com] !
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code’s (August 4th, 2008, 8:27 am)

thanks
58.

Balaji (August 4th, 2008, 9:40 pm)

Extraordinary pictures! Kudos to the photographer
59.

harry (August 6th, 2008, 3:18 am)

woww…thats is good art….i like it
60.

harry (August 6th, 2008, 3:20 am)

good choice
61.

sandeep singh (August 7th, 2008, 3:05 am)

these are very beautyful .so i have no words to comment on it
62.

Micaman (August 13th, 2008, 5:29 pm)

Great WPs!
63.

Odipo Brian Sospeter (August 15th, 2008, 1:59 am)

They were great wallpaperes
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jay (August 30th, 2008, 11:23 pm)

it is oosim. what wonderful collection………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!
65.

ZAWWAR (September 4th, 2008, 4:55 am)

EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL WALLPAPERS & NEEDS TO BE INCREASED IN QUANTITY
66.

praveen (September 5th, 2008, 10:30 pm)

mind blowing wallpapers
67.

Marius (September 6th, 2008, 1:58 am)

Hello friends, here you can find a set of unique Link [www.imcphoto.net] easy to view and download, enjoy.
68.

komal sharma (September 14th, 2008, 1:33 am)

i always hang on your site n love to see wallpapers!you r superb,fantastic n…………………………….many more!
69.

f5n (September 14th, 2008, 10:45 pm)

wow…
incredible post… :D

thanks…
70.

sagar kolge (September 17th, 2008, 1:08 am)

nice collection
71.

rollan (September 24th, 2008, 12:32 am)

photos & photoshop…incredibly cool
72.

web templates (October 10th, 2008, 3:15 am)

Im putting its all tears on my computer!
73.

majbah (October 18th, 2008, 11:35 pm)

sir ur selection is so perfect.i really like ur imeges.ok sir best of luck.
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ahsan (October 27th, 2008, 11:38 am)

lovely site.i like all wall papers.thanks for u.
75.

ali (October 28th, 2008, 1:21 am)

nice pic!!!!!!
76.

Ricky (November 5th, 2008, 7:27 am)

very good wallpapers,liked most of them,thanx.
77.

Appeltree (November 11th, 2008, 4:57 am)

Its maeveles :))all of them
78.

ajith (November 14th, 2008, 11:28 pm)

these r the best wallpapers and this is the best website
79.

jawad (November 28th, 2008, 11:03 pm)

THESE ARE BEST AND GREAT WALLPAPERS.
80.

yasir (December 1st, 2008, 4:12 am)

i am speach less this is really mind-blowing keep it up and i think the credit goes to photographers much then the site administrators
81.

srikanth (December 5th, 2008, 11:58 pm)

very nice wallpapers
82.

rachel (December 12th, 2008, 2:42 pm)

hooo it`s so wonderful!
i like thet picture`s very much!
=]..bad away..I`M from Israel..and i glad to see hwo English…(or British..) are talking..=]
have wonderful day…
83.

Kevin (December 28th, 2008, 9:04 pm)

Next time, please offer a Zip so that we can download them all at once!!!
84.

MEHUL PATOLIYA (December 29th, 2008, 12:48 am)

I like very much this collection
85.

emilia tokes (December 31st, 2008, 1:10 pm)

Breath taking !! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this :D and I wish you the very best for 2009 *hug*
86.

davaa (January 3rd, 2009, 2:40 pm)

very nice wallpapers :)
87.

www.siti-web-bologna.net (January 5th, 2009, 1:30 am)

Wow! Amazing! ;)
Here an other Set of Beautiful Nature Photo for Webdesigner Inspiration > Link [www.webair.it]
88.

rotello (January 7th, 2009, 7:50 am)

WOW, very good collection, thank you!!!
89.

uday (January 12th, 2009, 12:50 am)

really really - what i can say - wonderful
90.

Nirmal (January 13th, 2009, 11:38 pm)

superb
91.

Kinia (January 14th, 2009, 10:16 am)

Those are some of the coolest, most beautiful wallpapers I’ve ever seen! AMAZING work!
92.

PREET SHARMA (January 22nd, 2009, 12:46 am)

THIS DISTRACTION IS SO BEAUTIFULL
SO BEAUTIFUL
93.

Amit (January 22nd, 2009, 5:57 am)

hey this is awesome collection of nature wallpaper.
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ashkan khodayar (February 3rd, 2009, 2:07 pm)

only say nice :X :D
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INDEEVAR (February 4th, 2009, 2:46 am)

HAVE NO WORDS TO DEFINE.
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Karine (February 5th, 2009, 6:30 pm)

I want to say that me i really like it.
This is really beautifull.
Just look at once in thi picture you will love it.
97.

mani (March 4th, 2009, 4:06 am)

pls send this photos in my mail
98.

juan (March 5th, 2009, 7:18 pm)

WOOOW!!!!!! THESE ARE GREATE…………….
99.

Dewed (March 12th, 2009, 10:53 am)

I couldn’t help but notice the “Another Day on the Terrace” … That’s an excellent CD from Sunlounger … especially the Chilled disc.
100.

Sunilbhai (March 13th, 2009, 11:21 pm)

Very Very Nice, Beutiful
101.

anakkabicar (April 22nd, 2009, 7:25 pm)

you’r the best artist.
102.

Amarjyoti Goswami (May 5th, 2009, 2:43 am)

Wow ! Fantastic collection.
103.

abhishek (May 10th, 2009, 10:20 am)

amazing!!
just i can not tell more than this bcz words r less to express the beauty of nature.
104.

ANDRE (May 21st, 2009, 1:35 pm)

THESE PICS seem to put one in an” altered state” -so dreamlike, so imagination provoking. Sends the mind soaring. BRAVO!
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ANDRE (May 21st, 2009, 1:37 pm)

Thought provoking, and dreamlike,…….Bravo! Added a second comment, because did”t think the first went through, but worthy of many comments.
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pavansandya (May 29th, 2009, 2:08 am)

exlent pictures, i like to see this type pictures in my desktop
107.

madhumitha (June 11th, 2009, 4:58 am)

very nice wallpapers thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss