Workhorse pen 2

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Workhorse pen 2
Workhorse pen 2

"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try."
-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator

"With a single Wirt pen I have earned the family's living for many years. With two, I could have grown rich."
-- Mark Twain, Letter to Wirt Fountain Pen Company, October 11, 1898

This is another picture of my Waterman, set against the backdrop of a passage from Canto XXIV of Dante's Inferno, written in my own hand with this very pen.

During this particular experiment, I took about a half-dozen pictures of this basic theme, and posted the two that I decided were worth saving. Of the two, I like this one better in the way it displays my handwriting, but the other one is, in my view, a better shot of the fountain pen. Additionally, the color of the paper I wrote on is more accurately depicted in this picture, which was taken with available light. For the other, I used flash. I did not edit either picture in any way before posting them on Flickr.

Overall, I would have to say I like this picture better than the other one, but I thought both turned out quite well, particularly considering that I am the greenest of novices where digital photography is concerned.

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Taken on: July 21, 2005
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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix A345, f/2.8, 1/11 sec, 5.8mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix A345
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure Time: 0.091 sec (1/11)
Focal Length: 5.8mm
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: +0.3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
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