The Wallpapers of the Week selection this week is electric. Capturing incredible bolts and streaks of lightning, these wallpaper photos make for incredible backgrounds. From sunset through the dead of night, these images capture the natural phenomenon.
Lightning wallpaper
This collection of photographs comes from the open license repository, unsplash.com. The site features an incredibly large selection of original photographs, posted by the photographers themselves. Subject matter in the repot vary wildly in a very positive way.
To start, three images that are set in portrait orientation. These make the easiest-to-set iPhone wallpapers, given the screen orientation. However, they are large enough for an iPad or portrait mode desktop monitor.
My favorite of the three is listed first. A sunrise wallpaper featuring a large body of water that is trickling into a stream at the foreground, then accented by a massive bolt of lightning in the background. The color gradient in the sky moves through the bright sun to a dark purple hue in the corner, with a dark foreground that adds depth.
The following options feature a much larger, non-portrait sized canvas. Sweeping views of landscapes feel much more breathtaking with a full view of the subject. Consequently, these photographs are big enough for a 4K monitor, in most cases. Set these as your desktop background and iPad wallpaper or focus on the subject matter of your choosing on iPhone.
If you are looking for more photographs from the same artists, then check out their unsplash profiles: Speckfechta; Forrest Moreland; Mike Lewinski; Angela Compagnone; Sean Pierce; Andrew Landcaster; Dominik QN; NOAA; Svitlana Koshelieva.
To influence the iDB Wallpapers of the Week collection, send tips or downloads my way on X @jim_gresham, where I curate the gallery. Follow along for mid-week downloads, sneak peaks of upcoming posts, and general banter about Apple gadgets.