Nice pen Doc! Love the grain as you mentioned and I think its a great choice of plating.
To talk photography, your aperture looks a little low IMO. It looks like you're on f5.6 - f8 judging by the very low depth of field. How about f16 - f22 for photo number 1?
The others are fine because they are on one horizontal plane.
Chances are Im wrong in which case just ignore me :biggrin:
Terry, You are not wrong at all. :wink: The depth of field is definitely low! The f-stop is f5.6 for all three pictures. I will redid the first one at f18. See how it looks. Thank you for the critique. I really appreciate it!! I have off today so I have time. :biggrin: Regards, Doc P.S. I redid the pictures on the Burls and Swirls II pen...see what you think. I probably need to increase the depth of field on that one also.