beautiful

awesome clarity!

Nice focus and DOF

Congrats for your first place!

Thanks for all the votes & nice comments everybody!

Took me some time to figure out where the "pen" was. Very original idea and well-composed shot. Good luck !

This to me is a bit "busy". I agree... took a minute to figure out where the pen was but maybe if you had a solid background? Keep everything else... just have a solid background. Might work

Have to agree it's busy, the perspective lines go allover, the background, the statue, plant and the book are unnecessary, furthermore I do not understand the candleholder in this which should act like some kind of ink jar.

The idea with the feather, an inkjar and writenpaper is good. Take just those (find some small glass jar which can act like a inkjar) and see what you can do with them. It's just my suggestion to you, up to you if you agree or not

I was going for clutter and haphazard, as a genius like Amadeus desk would be. Using the candle holder as his ink well, I felt represented his eccentric's, three ink pots in one!
Writing his music was all that mattered to him!

Just my spin on what i was after with this pix!
thanks for your input, much appreciated!
p.s. I had already taken stuff out of this photo when setting it up, to make it somewhat less busy!!lol

wonderful shot

Nice set up = )

The pseudo-ink well/candlestick is interesting, but the quill should be placed to show that the tip really is a pen. This looks like it could just be a feather...

The ink on the parchment is brown, as it is in the tip on the feather!

Congrats for your second place, Craigers!

Lovely shot, but do pencils qualify as pens?

Hope not, rules say picture should show only one pen. I assume pencils are something different. Agree?
Googling on pen, doesnt show me one single pencil

Very kewl! and the rules did say there can only be ONE pen but never mentioned anything about pencils GL!

On Topic. Pens and Pencils differ!

Very creative!

wish I had known.

that's funny! I get a thumbs down for a compliment? Well it is creative to me.. I've never seen it but what do I know! I'm just a newbie!

newbie myself,....apparently,..suck it up! or else!

hummm.... I might... Might not. Might not just to see what "OR ELSE" is...hehehe

I respectfully admire the way you managed to have only the pen on focus. Great!

Tilt shift lens?

No 70-200 2.8 lens, but it took me a lot of shots to get the focus just right

good job!

Congrats for your third place!

I've always love how these kind of pens look like. It seems like the part(I don't know what it's called) is already art itself. When I was young I wanted to write with these kind of pens simply because I like the way they looked.

The black background was a good choice. It helps by hiding the pen a little, but not too much and makes the picture appear little more mysterious than it would have been with any other background I can think of.

beautiful

I like the engraving blending with the background. Nice job

excellent macro capture, .......... and the word you look for Shikyo, is 'nib'.

adeincyprus, thank you. It's always a pleasure to learn something new. The day we die is the day we stop learning, I'd hope.

Nice clean shot

I love these shots with no shadow whatsoever.