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Here is a Bolt Action Pen I completed yesterday, it is the first one of this type I have made. The bolt moves the refill in and out, so its a bit of a novelty for gun lovers.

This is one of our native Gecko's, I disturbed him while I was getting some tools from the shed to fix the back door of the house.

Not sure what this one is called, it's growing outside my bar.

I went into town yesterday and picked up a range of about 20 different colour and texture paper to use as backgrounds. Here is a ballpoint I completed today, it features Paua Abalone shell which has been cut into strips and glued to a brass tube, and then cast in clear resin. I have then turned...

Devils Fig. Another problem plant I have growing in my area.

Righto, done some changes today. 1- moved the top light towards the front of the box. 2- moved the RH light up about an inch. 3- lined the box with aluminium foil. Here are some test pics.... they are all straight out of the camera, untouched. ( except to resize so they will upload here ) All...

OK, a few more. I cleaned the contacts on the lens, didn't seem to make much difference. The aperture is set at f16 for all photos (if I can trust what it is saying ) They are all using the circular polariser, I taped it onto the end of the lens, so thats where it stayed. The first 2 are using...

A bit of experimenting today. I changed to some more transparent material on the tent. I still havent got any cheesecloth to try yet. The first 2 are using the new cloth, the 3rd is no tent, just direct lighting. Another pics of a pen I posted previously, no tent. This Rollerball is made...

A few I took this morning before the sun got too high.

Here is something a bit different to pens. This little creek runs through my property, not far from my house. All taken with the 18-55mm kit lens.

This is the lightbox/tent that I built to photograph my pens in. Since these photos, I have changed the light bulbs to halogen/tungsten. The CFL's were giving me flat looking photos. I still need to make some more improvements, I might try a more transparent material for the tent, and try moving...

A couple for today. The first one is a full size Rollerball, the timber is Cooktown Ironwood and Spalted Northern Tamarind, there is a brass strip between the segments. I tried an address book for a background in the 1st pic, lots of room for improvement, and the pen kept rolling off the page...

A couple more from my backyard.

Well it seems like a good idea to have a thread to put my Pen photos in. No doubt I will put other stuff in here too :rolleyes: Here's some starters. Its a Rodium plated Rollerball, with Poly Resin, called "Pearl Opal". I just finished it this afternoon. The photos are taken in my...

Grevillea Olympic Flame. The windy conditions got the better of me, I broke a branch off and put it in my lightbox. A Lilly that is growing near my shed.

Yet another Orchid near my house... Not a flower, this is a Treefern frond just starting to unfurl...

Thanks Marilynne. I do make bullet pens, here are a couple of pics ( not very good ones ) They are 30-06 cartridges with 30 caliber projectiles, all clear powder coated. The ones with cartridge tops are 308's, they use a Parker ballpoint refill. These were all for one customer, he has since...

Ok, these are all taken with my Wifes Canon P&S. They are a bit of a mixed bag of pics. These are my homemade chainsaw mill, slabbing up a Carbeen log that came down in a Cyclone a few years back. This is a coffee table I finished not long back, it has a Bloodwood Burl top, the base is made...

Thanks for the welcome Guys. Since my passion for penmaking has bought me back to photography, I guess I should post a couple of pics of some recent pens.

Cheers Neal. Here is another one I couldn't resist. She must get tired carrying that Joey around, its about big enough to get around by itself now.