a pretty girl with attitude

i feel like we got off on the wrong foot with these bleeding hearts. how can a plant with such striking flowers, be so darn difficult to photograph?  i took 16 different shots of these branches. i am not exaggerating. 16! and not one of them knocked my socks off. one of the many “problems” with bleeding hearts, is that those transparent white tips at the base of each heart are nearly impossible to photograph on a white background. also the flowers to foliage ratio is off. and the long arching racemes of hanging pendent flowers are flimsy and unruly. ha! i sound as spoiled and petulant as i am accusing the bleeding heart of being. perhaps our chemistry was just off. that happens sometimes.

bleeding heart flowers (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)