What is this background image called?

[@GCarlD]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know what the image in the background is called? Purely for searching purposes, I'm not looking to recreate the background effect myself from scratch. I would like to source a similar image to use in a design. My client sent it to me; she likes it as an idea due to the imagery {sigh}

Thank you.

 

[Paul Murray]

I had some luck searching for "abstract light background"…

 

[@GCarlD]

Yeah, that search term pretty much does the trick, cheers!

 

[scotty]

It's called "bokeh".

 

[@GCarlD]

Oh yeah, I have heard of Bokeh before, not a word I ever remember though; probably because it sounds Vulcan.

 

[scotty]

Think it comes from Japanese.

 

[@GCarlD]

Really? I thought Vulcan was a fictional language

 

[hankscorpio]

Isn't that just a photographic technique for blurring the background, where the foreground stays in focus???

 

[scotty]

Generally speaking, yes.

It comes from the Japanese (Boke) and means blurry.
It's become a general term for blurred points of light on the background of an image and Carl's image is the kind of stereotypical example of this.