Non-political statement - actually the flowers. Pun intended!

One of my favorite flowers! Bleeding hearts! I got this one from my uncle’s sister and I’m so grateful to her for it. In fact, that’s where I got my irises and lilies and other flowers too! Anyway, bleeding hearts are some of my favorite flowers. There’s just something detailed and beautiful about them. And a little sad too. They sort of grow in a pattern that reminds me of teardrops hanging off a vine.

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Taken in my neighborhood.

please don't mind the ISO noise -

this one is captured with a digital dinosaur and cropped ...

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Gebroken hartjes (Venus's car, Bleeding heart, Dutchman's trousers, or Lyre flower), Camping de Meibeek, Ruurlo (Gld).

Bleeding-heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis L.), 113 Elm Street, Piedmont District, Worcester, MA.

Always exciting to see these lovely flowers appear, and they're a little ahead of schedule this year. Dicentra eximia, a member of the poppy family.

Pentacon 50/1.8

A shot of a bleeding heart plant I took last week.

Taken with my Zuiko 70-300 telemacro lens.

Nikon D90, 85mm f/3.5 Micro VR , 1/320, f/10.0, ISO 200

My Plants&Flowers set

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Closed off from love, I didn't need the pain. Once or twice was enough and it was all in vain. Time starts to pass before you know it you're frozen. But something happened for the very first time with you. My heart melted to the ground, found something true

And everyone's looking 'round, thinking I'm going crazy.

But I don't care what they say, I'm in love with you. They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth. My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing. You cut me open, And I keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love.

EXIF DATA

Aperture f/7.1

Exposure Value 1/80 Sec,

Focal Length 65mm

ISO 100

Mode Priority: Aperture Priority

Camera Canon EOS 450D

Lens Canon 17-85mm IS USM f/4.0 - 5.6

PS: Added Extra Noise Effect

View On Black

I always think of my best friends Mom when I see these flowers, because of the story she shared with us kids. If you take the flower apart, you will find pieces to 'one' story of how the Bleeding Heart got its name. The pink petals represent the Princess' gown, and you can see her earrings and slippers as well. Last, there is a dagger, which a Prince used to stab his own heart when he could not win the Princess'. As a result, the Princess declared that Her heart would bleed forever.

Tenuous Link: blood

April 24, 2011

weather has been awful last few days - lots of clouds, lots of rain. but it also meant beautiful sunsets. whis was one of those sunsets that you do not see very often, sky starting off as graying blue, slowly changing to yellowish orange, then to reddish orange, then turning into blood red, before it all goes back to gray...

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'Thing about red, they can't tell how much you're bleeding."

Cosplay by @serene_assassincosplay

Walking through a cloud, i want you near.

And wouldn't you know, i'm wide awake.

Why can't you calm down, why can't you feel?

Why can't you come out, why did you leave?

lt isn't here... so i'm going out of bounds.

This train derailed, and moving south.

I'm bleeding out, and running around.

I'm leavin' now, and you're never gonna know.

Of course she says, something's wrong, but it's always right,

Something's wrong, of course it's all, all in my head.

A stone's thrown,

Holding my breath.

Baby dive deep inside, holding my hand.

Loop en 4/5

-ap

A macro taken for the group Macro Mondays. Theme: Three

Ok, so there are five---but only three have bloomed.

Egg bleeding blood

Bleeding heart or Lamprocapnos spectabilis growing in a mountain in South Korea.

I am not much of a "flower" photographer but I find these flowers to be quite unique and beautiful, and always try to find the time to photograph them each year :)

500px.com/photo/107810507/bleeding-heart-by-aaron-choi

Marta Peterson / Bleeding Through

Bleeding Hearts

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Another one.

Strobist info: Lumopro120 1/2 power behind subject and to camera right just outside of frame.

I have always liked the glowing transilluminated look for flowers and leaves. But the timing was always difficult for the sun to be in just the right spot.

I am learning more and more how to bring my own "sun" with me and MAKE the photo rather than just take it.

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Bleeding Heart vine

Clerodendrum thomsoniae

Family Verbenaceae or Lamiaceae

The Rockledge Gardens, Rockledge, Florida, USA.

Bleeding Heart flowers close-up

From our garden.

Highest Explore position: 223 on Monday, June 18, 2007

Lamprocapnos spectabilis

Japanese art print by Mihoko Kasamatsu (1932-)