delightful accident

these foxtail barley normally bend head-heavy on the long arcs of their stems. i was trying to recreate this effect against my white light reflector, and the entire sheaf of stems broke free of my fasteners and spun so that they were hanging upside down. what was going to be a study of the parallel curves of stems, suddenly turned into a study of the complicated weavings of the stiff hairs standing upwards (or in this case standing downwards) from the seed heads. a delightful accident which i decided not to correct.

foxtail barley