Prickly Beauty

I must have taken about 100 photos of these flowers today. Too much light, too little light, too much detail, not enough context, too pretty, not enough prickle, too much prickle and not enough impact and so it went on. Tried lensbaby and macro, got lots of interesting wierd looking shapes and shadows, it is hard to show bright bright flowers against a prickly background but the idea of it still haunts me that it must be possible to get a really punchy statement from these lot. Have given up and feeling distincly cross eyed and sick of the sight of them.
maybe tomorrow I will get it right!