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Rain Hayes

@rainhayes.com

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A California-based photographer working with 'invisible' ultraviolet and infrared light. Get in touch for licensing, prints and unique collaborations. https://rainhayes.com

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 14h

It’s so much weirder now - bet you’d still love it!

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 20h

An original. Nice work, Will.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 21h

That's just gorgeous, Loretta. I could look at it all day.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 1d

Two beautiful images, Rick. The abstract shapes are a nice distraction from the 'real' world.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 5d

The pollen is quite reactive to the uv! Thank you 💙💜

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 5d

Wow, love the 1970s style illustration. Congrats on the exposure.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 5d

This Coleus flower smells strongly like skunk. I think it's pretty neat looking, but it needs to go wait outside after our glamour shots session.

#flowers #photography

𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑎

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

These are amazingly weird. And strangely, there is one growing in my backyard in California. It's a huge vine that has taken over a large tree.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

Thank you, will definitely check it out.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

Little bit of magic, Paul. I love the translucent layers.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

As a young kid, I had to weed yellow star thistles out of fields in 38°C heat for, if I was lucky, a measly dollar an hour. It's taken me a long time to come around to their non-awful qualities!

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

Wow! That Horrodilum is fantastic. What a name, too. Now I will carefully look into each of these while studiously avoiding news of current events. Thank you for that!

We have an endemic red variety, Cirsium occidentale, for which I have just ordered seeds. (photo by S Weakley)

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

I imagine they're a good place to find and photograph certain insects?

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

I had forgotten that fact! It does warm the heart to know they are culturally and formally appreciated.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 6d

Have you ever noticed how beautiful thistles are? We have so many varieties here in California. They're generally regarded as "noxious weeds" but they're an extremely important food source for pollinators, and help restore poor soil. They are wonderful.

#flowers #photography

𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑢𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑠

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 8d

When I was five years old, I snuck a frosting flower from my cousin's wedding cake and devoured it in one huge bite. Friends, it was the most awful, bitter thing I had ever tasted. Just horribly disillusioned.

These milkweed flowers, which look like delicious little candies, bring it all back.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 9d

She's coyly batting eyelashes! Another charming portrait.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 9d

That's a nice one, John. What a lovely critter!

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 10d

These are so cool!

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 12d

Awesome, Gray! Looks like we’re having a conversation.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 12d

Unreal beauty. The straight-up view with falling leaves is like a dream. Gorgeous work.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 12d

This is lovely. These scenes can be so disorienting in person, so your ordered composition is striking.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 14d

Gorgeous, Alex! I feel like I just opened up a book of 18th century German engravings.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 15d

Probably so! I live in a high rise and it felt like something slammed into the sliding glass doors. Not the highest number on the scale, but probably one of the hardest I’ve felt.

Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 15d

Aftershock!