The Right Background

So this is kind of a cool story... I was wandering around the remains of the garden in the side yard, looking for a photograph, and I wasn't having much luck. But then I spotted these pale gray stems. There were a bunch of them kind of tangled up. Try as I would, I just couldn't come up with a photograph, because the background was weeds of about the same color. What to do? So I picked this one stem and went looking for a darker background. I ended up opening the garage door, and putting the stem on the top of a light stand to hold it, just outside the open door. The garage was dark inside, of course, and it gave me this wonderful black background which made the form of the stems jump out. Cool, huh?