I mentioned this above but will be direct on one specific comment: What is the purpose of a picture? Here on IAP, it is to showcase a pen that we make!
Too many times, the photographer seems to be more interested in making a photograph and include a pen in it. IF one wants to show off a pen, it does not need to have lots of beautiful artifacts distracting from the point of the photo. IF one's goal is a beautiful picture and the layout in the picture, then attractive artifacts will help the photograph, but no one item attracts all of the attention, and if the attention is intended to be a pen, the attraction of the eye will be elsewhere other than the pen.
I love the photographs of different natures that people occasionally post on this forum, but when it comes to pens, let the focus be the pens and leave the extra's out. Small Props and uncluttered backgrounds accentuate and focus on the pen.