The official Raspberry Pi OS (and Raspberry Pi Desktop) wallpaper images, in ~4k resolution.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.
In addition, Raspberry Pi Ltd is granted a separate, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, and distribute these images as part of Raspberry Pi OS and associated official Raspberry Pi materials, notwithstanding the “NonCommercial” restriction above.
The "2016" directory contains the images used in the original release of Raspbian with PIXEL, from September 2016. For details (including locations, gear used, and settings) of these images, see: https://stories.gregannandale.com/raspberry-pi-desktop-images
The 2025 images were introduced with the release of Raspberry Pi OS "Trixie" in October 2025. For details (including locations, gear used, and settings) of these images, see: https://stories.gregannandale.com/raspberry-pi-desktop-images-2025
These images aren't currently available in this repository, but may be added in the future.
Location data is included in the EXIF metadata of the images, and can be accessed using tools such as exiftool, eg:
$ exiftool -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude <imagename>.jpg