Rob Haines Creative Space

Rob Haines Creative Space

Writing
Visual Art
Blog
About

Writing
Visual Art
Blog
About

photography

The first snowdrop shoots of the year, emerging from a layer of frost, their leaves speckled with ice crystals.

A close-up of an arrangement of white and blue flowers. The central flower is a sphere of spiky blue petals.

A flush of little white flowers - in various stages of blossoming - against a black background.

An array of dangling snowdrops in bloom, speckled with droplets of water.

A bright red ladybird with black spots on overlapping green leaves covered in a fine layer of hairs.

An orange and brown butterfly with scattered black spots perched on the lip of a yellow daffodil.

A macro photo of a very small blue and white speedwell flower, against an out-of-focus backdrop of greenery and other similar flowers.

A swathe of tiny blue-and-white speedwell flowers running from top-left to bottom-right, against a backdrop of lush greenery.

A close-up of a single pink and white cherry blossom on a dark grey slate. The petals are flowing, with white at the centre, with pink edges, and at the centre is a cluster of yellow reproductive stalks.

My cat Poppy carefully smelling a small pink cherry blossom being presented to her by a human hand.

A branch of pale pink cherry blossoms against a bright sky.

A tiny snail - maybe an inch long at most from back of shell to antennae - on the lip of a black plastic bucket. Their shell is gorgeous patterns of variegated brown, and their skin almost looks like dragon scales.

A cluster of rich green leaves with a corrugated texture, lit strongly from the right by the sun, against a blue sky.

A peacock butterfly with beautiful eyes on its wings, perched on a sandy river bank amidst green grasses. Their compound eyes and long curled proboscis are sharply focused and clear.

A close-up of two sprigs of bluebells, partially shaded from the spring sunshine. The flowers are beautiful clusters of hanging bell shapes, each petal with a line of blue down the centre.

A flush of sunlit bluebells, shot from a low angle. Sharp angled green leaf-blades cut across the image from the bottom-left, their surfaces alternating light and shadow, and the distance is out-of-focus green and occasional dots of purple.

A close-up of bluebells viewed from between sharp blades of bright green grass.

A single dandelion clock opening up, with grass blades in the foreground and deep browns and blues in the background.

A close-up of a bright-red tulip, looking over the lip of the petals into the flower itself where a cluster of curling reproductive organs rises.

A bright-red tulip viewed through green blades of grass.

A view down the open mouth of a deep pink foxglove flower. The floor is covered in fine hairs, and a complex reproductive apparatus curls against the roof of the flower.

A *very* tiny pink wildflower, no more than a few millimeters across, amidst a backdrop of grass. At the centre of the flower is a five-pointed reproductive organ, surrounded by small blue clusters.

A macro photo of a bright red tulip, viewed over the top edge of its petals. A three-pointed yellow structure sits at the heart of the flower, surrounded by stamens.

A very small pink wildflower against a green backdrop, with a cluster of purple stamens at the centre covered in yellow pollen.

A close-up of a lilac-coloured chive flower against a green backdrop. The flower has many small petals around little white clusters of pollen.

A wall of vivid pink foxglove flowers, each with landing strips of little purple spots and long hairs.

A bright yellow cluster of day lilies and red-green buds yet to burst into bloom.

A small iridescent green insect with long antennae and mandibles, feeding from the centre of a bright yellow creeping buttercup flower.

A tiny black bug marching along the petal of a radiant yellow day lily as if on a quest.

A pale blue nigella flower, with a central pillar of twisted green shoots, a wide platform of soft blue petals, and an array of spiky green leaves spidering off to the corners of the image.

A side view of a bright yellow-and-reddish-brown day lily in full bloom, against a background of rich greens.

A top-down view of a lavender-coloured nigella blossom. It has overlapping rings of wide petals, with a central spray of green stems, and an array of spiky green foliage below the petals, emerging like solar panels on a space station.

A nigella flower with just five lavender-coloured petals, and many branching green spikes. The flower has recently been watered, and water droplets gleam where the petals have caught them.

Two iridescent rosemary beetles perch at the top of a tall stalk of lavender, feeding of the purple tips.

© Rob Haines, 2026

Copyright &
Permissions