Poor things look rather sad, when you appreciate how they're meant to look.
In pictorial terms, John, I wondered about cropping the first one from the left-hand side to make it into a portrait-orientation with teh shrivelled chilli then in the left-hand part of the image? That would take out those stalks currently on the left that I'm not sure add anything to the picture and distract attention away from the chilli.
Just one idea!