Water & Ripple Wallpapers in 4K

Free 4K water wallpapers. Download ocean surface texture, rain on glass, ripples and calm blue water photographs.

This collection is built around a single ripple crossing a still surface, caught at the exact moment the light breaks on it, and that is the whole point of it. Fluid, cold and endlessly repeatable, and the palette leans aqua, slate and the white of broken foam. The images were chosen for the way they behave at full screen rather than for the way they look as a thumbnail, which is the difference between a wallpaper that disappears behind your icons and one that still holds your attention after a week. Every file is served from our own domain in three sizes, with the author, the licence and the real pixel dimensions attached, so nothing is a surprise after you click download.

The images are ordered by how recently they were added rather than by popularity, which keeps the collection fresh and gives every single entry a chance to be discovered by search engines and by image browsers.

Every picture below was checked for resolution, framing and compression artefacts before it was published, so what you download is the version you saw in the thumbnail. Open any card to see the full metadata, the licence and the download link.

All of the files are served from our own domain, which means they load fast, they can be indexed by Google Images and Bing Images, and they stay available even if the original source moves the file.

The collection currently includes, among others, 01-14 Surface waves, Surface waves and water striders, Ripples Lifjord.