Fun outside the visible spectrum

[Mocksy]

Talk about a perfect pen/ink combination:

[jd50ae]

wow, so coooollll

[Emlee]

OOOOhhhhhh NNnnnooooo!

I can see another new pen & new ink purchase in my future....

 

Great combo! Thanks, Mocksy, for sharing!

[ProfMike]

This is DEFINITELY one of the coolest fountain pen picture ideas I've ever seen!! Who'd have thought that a demonstrator pen and a blacklight would go so well together!

 

Thanks for the photo (and new pen/ink combo) idea!

 

Mike

[goldkiwi]

That is such an awesome picture! I have a Lamy Vista as well, and now I'm horribly tempted to get some Blue Ghost, although I still don't know when I'd use it... Perhaps when writing my most private thoughts in my journal?

 

Out of curiosity, did you have to use special settings to take this photograph?

[dwmatteson]

Very nice. Now that's a picture I'd like to see in a fountain pen calendar! Pesky nib creep....

 

Don M.

Edited January 21, 2007 by dwmatteson

[maryannemoll]

oh nooooo! now i have to buy that exact pen and noodler's!!!

[superfly]

Great, great photo. In fact, the photo of the year, no matter it's only January... bravo...

 

 

cheers,

Nenad

[HyperCamper]

Way cool! Could you post the original high-res picture as well?

[rroossinck]

Well done...that's a cool photo.

[Mocksy]

Thanks.

 

I didn't have to do anything weird with the camera, the only trick was getting the lighting all balanced. I hate the spots on the nib but Blue Ghost seems especially hard to clean off. There's a whole bunch of things I could do better so I'm probably going to shoot it again.

 

What really looked cool was drawing the ink up into the pen, which I did under a black light. It's really easy to get Blue Ghost all over your hands without realizing it. I managed to make a glowing mess out of my fingers.

[shalley]

* boings about happily chanting a new inky-mantra * I got me some! I got me some!

Edited January 21, 2007 by shalley

[kkbach]

Was the photo shot with a UV light and a regular camera?

 

Or a UV camera with normal illumination?

 

Or Uv camera UV light?

 

Thanks

[HDoug]

Wow! That's a really incredible photo!

 

Doug

[captnemo]

Looks like an awesome wallpaper photo to me. Can you please post the high resolution original? I don't care how big it is.

 

Best regards,

Phil

[BillTheEditor]

Actually, it works fine as wallpaper just as it is.

 

Now if I just had less junk on my desktop ... :blink:

[Bill]

Nice shot!

 

For a different perspective, here's a before and after with Blue Ghost that I posted in FPN a year ago.

 

Bill

Edited January 22, 2007 by Bill

[jsonewald]

And I just received what was to be the last bottle of Noodlers I would buy for a long time!

 

Seriously - excellent idea, execution, and really fine photo.

 

Congratulations!

[southpaw]

That is just too cool!!!!

[captnemo]

Actually, it works fine as wallpaper just as it is.

 

Now if I just had less junk on my desktop ... :blink:

Hint: The wallpaper goes under your junk.

 

Yes, the pic looks great as wallpaper, and I'm using it right now. it's just kind of small on a 1280x960 monitor.