Some flowers fluoresce under ultraviolet light. One of my favorite is Borage, a lovely, fragrant herb. Even its little hairs (trichomes) glow. In other news, it's wonderful to see the BSKY art & photography community growing so rapidly. I'm glad you're here. 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 '𝖤𝗀𝗈 𝗌𝗎𝗆 𝖽𝖾 𝖵𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝖾' - ThreadSky

rainhayes.com • 104 days ago

Some flowers fluoresce under ultraviolet light. One of my favorite is Borage, a lovely, fragrant herb. Even its little hairs (trichomes) glow.

In other news, it's wonderful to see the BSKY art & photography community growing so rapidly. I'm glad you're here.

𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 '𝖤𝗀𝗈 𝗌𝗎𝗆 𝖽𝖾 𝖵𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝖾'

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mrscotteddy.bsky.social•101 days ago

So beautiful

stuklinke.bsky.social•104 days ago

Brilliant as always, Rain

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Thank you, Stuart - great to see you here.

nora.dev•104 days ago

Incredibly beautiful. Love all of your work!

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Thanks for the kind words, Nora!

sarahwithanh09.bsky.social•104 days ago

This is so cool!

caminos.bsky.social•102 days ago

Stunning! ❤️

steviethehague.bsky.social•104 days ago

What beautiful photos.
Easiest follow of the day and great captions too!

mehceephotos.bsky.social•104 days ago

Just endlessly fascinating to see your experiments Rain. Borage certainly shines doesn't it!

liveyourstory.bsky.social•104 days ago

Beautiful!! Borage is a staple in my garden; this photo makes me appreciate it even more! Thank you for sharing.

teti-ukraine.bsky.social•104 days ago

Your work is stunning Rain😍📸

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Thanks for the kind words, Tetiana. I’m a big fan of your show, too.

teti-ukraine.bsky.social•104 days ago

Appreciate it a lot Rain, thank you 🙏. I really enjoyed editing and listening episode with you 🤩🎧

2wsphotography.bsky.social•104 days ago

Stunning 🙌

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Thank you, Will!

whulbert-photos.bsky.social•104 days ago

Here she is. The legend. Happy Thanksgiving!

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Happy Thanksgiving, Will (whether you partake or not.) I'm thankful you're here.

immcarvalho.bsky.social•104 days ago

Amazing! Glad to see your lovely work here! 💜

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

You too, Maria!

immcarvalho.bsky.social•104 days ago

Thank you!

heppy111.bsky.social•104 days ago

That's fantastic! 🤩🤩🤩

We have lots of borage in our herb bed - I'll have to get my black light out & explore!

timbert.bsky.social•104 days ago

Yikes. Even among your images, this one stands out for colors and coolness.

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Thanks for saying so, Tim. It's really difficult to predict which flowers will look awesome under UV, and which will be total duds. I'm ever on the hunt for more specimens like this one.

juneflanagan.bsky.social•99 days ago

Your image approach is novel and so beautiful.

imaqui.bsky.social•104 days ago

That is so interesting to me. It’s my understanding that scorpions also fluoresce. I’ll bet there are a lot of our natural world that does that for their own secret purposes.

rainhayes.com•104 days ago

Scorpions do, and also platypodes!

ozziebadja.bsky.social•104 days ago

As an Australian, the plural of platypus is platypus - like sheep. But yes, platypus do glow under UV.

imaqui.bsky.social•103 days ago

I never knew that. I wonder what the evolutionary purpose is for that. Do platypus see differently than other mammals? Are they the only mammal that glow under IV light?

ozziebadja.bsky.social•103 days ago

It started with discovering it was true for platypus, but the more they looked, the more they found. It was just no-one thought to look before.

ozziebadja.bsky.social•103 days ago

“It turns out that glowing under UV light is surprisingly common for mammals – in fact, a new study shows that it’s weird not to glow under ultraviolet light.”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/animals/mammals-uv-light-glowing/

imaqui.bsky.social•103 days ago

What is the evolutionary reason for glowing under UV? Any thoughts?

brentmail.bsky.social•104 days ago

This is absolutely fascinating! The way the borage glows under UV light is mesmerising—it’s like seeing nature’s hidden magic. Thank you for sharing this.

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