Fountain grass

Find it hard to photograph fountain grass. If you include the whole plant in the frame, or even a decent-sized chunk of it, the picture seems to lose all the intricate details of the stalks, flowers and leaves, which are what make it an interesting plant in the first place. If you try to include only one feature - most commonly one of the fluffy cigar-shaped flower heads - it doesn't seem interesting enough by itself to 'carry' the whole picture.
So I tried to capture the feel of the plant by focussing (ahem..) on the elegant stems and leaves - especially their graduated shades of green, purple and maroon.
Two of the best things about digital photography are that you don't have to wait for the film to be sent off, developed into photos and returned; and that you can take as many pictures of your subject as you want, and it won't cost you any more if most or even all of them don't turn out very well.
Probably took 30 or 40 pictures, of which three or four captured - sort of -  what I was after; and of them, only this one landed somewhere in the ballpark.
The further you drill down into the fine detail of fountain grass, the more abstract the picture can become. And if you happen to stumble upon an interesting combination of light, shapes, patterns, textures and colours, then you probably have the makings of an up to scratch Blipfoto for the day.
Job done.