Early May. Zone 6. Macro practice.

Bleeding Hearts

A wild bleeding heart (Dicentra eximia) in the Native Flora Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Bleeding Gods - Metaldays 2018

Manual focus Yashica ML 28-85mm Macro with 33mm of extension tubes on a Olympus E-330 with 4/3 adapter

Known as the bleeding-heart dove or pigeon.

The pigeon landed on her head and sat there for a good couple of minutes while we all took photos!

Out in the rain today- trying to catch raindrops on these pretty blossoms.

Dicentra / Lamprocapnos spectabilis

Bleeding Gods - Metaldays 2018

Red resin issuing from this tree makes it look like it's bleeding.

Bleeding Hearts growing at the back of the house.

Indoor studio shot. I use the word "studio" loosely. I have black fabric that I drape over a large piece of cardboard leaned against what ever is handy to keep it upright on my dinning room table. I sit the vase about 3 feet in front of the black background. The further the better. There is a window behind me. I try to keep as much light off the black background as I can. I recently started using a ring light. Camera light meters will overexpose the subject in an attempt to make the background lighter, which is not what I want. I almost always compensate at least -1 but more often greater. I increase the contract during post processing to make the background darker black. The idea is the under expose the background, hopely by at least 2 stops. I see somewhat gray backgrounds in a number of photos like this. It is best to turn the light off at night when processing photos like this to make sure the background is black. I didn't do that with this photo and other photos I took a few minutes ago so hopefully this has a truly black background. I am not sure if this is the correct way to do this, but it seems to work for me. IMG_3599

Bleeding hearts

Brandan (lead vocals) from bleeding through at soundwave 08

EXPLORE Worthy Challenge #18 - FLOWERS

I think this is a Bleeding Heart. It just showed up last year in a corner at the back of my house, tucked behind an azalea and a camellia. It looked sort of fern-like and I just left it alone. This year I was surprised by these delicate pink blooms.

Thanks to ~Essence of a Dream~ for sharing this texture.

Bleeding Rainbow @ KEXP 4-25-2014

Photo by Eric Gonzalez Alfaro

Just hanging out and Mom and Dads house....:)

Bleeding Hearts...actually look like their name

No group invites, please.

Bleeding Gods - Metaldays 2018

Bleeding Gods - Metaldays 2018

Bleeding Gods - Metaldays 2018

Dicentra--Bleeding Heart in early morning.

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Bleeding heart flowers in our garden.

Larger Version.

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St. Thomas, ON

May 15, 2015

Bleeding Rainbow @ KEXP 4-25-2014

Photo by Eric Gonzalez Alfaro

These are such fascinating flowers, especially coupled with the vibrance of their leaves.

taken 5-03-09 in my side yard

Pink and green. No, wait, and white. And yellow. And perhaps a tinge of lavender. What compliments what?

The Daily Shoot assignment for 2010/04/12:

Look for colors that complement each other and make a photo using complementary colors to full effect today.

Our weather has been cool and overcast with a tad of liquid sunshine the past 5 days. The birds seem to be tight to the nests so I had a need to burn some pixels yesterday. So flowers it was. At least no distracting shadows when the sky is gray.

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These are bleeding heart buds ready to pop open.

Front garden. Oakville, Ontario

Macro setting on Bleeding Hearts at dusk in my backyard

Colorful bleeding hearts taken during a casual stroll in a park.