good intentions

pampas grasses are striking. you can’t not notice them. but as a STILL subject they are tricky. i usually wait for a white sky and then photograph them en plein air. but that means i really only get to photograph them in winter. this week i brought a bundle of them home to play with. i was hoping to lay them out in parallel lines on my white floors in order to make them look like a kind of ancient asemic writing. i was planning to get up on a ladder to get high enough to photograph them in their entirety. turns out, they just looked like a messy pile of stems and leaves. i was hoping the repetition in the leaf branching would look more intentional, and less chaotic. anyway, in the end, i decided this detail shot abstracted the subject enough to make it more interesting than the rows of stems.

pampas grass leaves