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Original - A higly magnified image of the tip of a ballpoint pen.
Reason
Highlights the surprisingly complex technology underlying an ordinary, everyday object - a ballpoint pen
Articles this image appears in
Ballpoint pen
Creator
User:Lander777

Even though the image doesn't meet the resolution standard (1000px) by 94 pixels, I think it still highlights a very interesting detail of a very mundane object - a ballpoint pen, an integral part of modern society in itself - that one doesn't pay attention to normally at all, and definitely makes one want to know more about the technology behind ballpoint pens. The photograph is of good technical quality and lighting is fine. Overall it illustrates the wear and tear brought about by writing the pen in an artistic and compelling way.hydrox (talk) 02:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Opposing this 906x650px image on FPC, when the criteria strictly state 'Still images are a minimum of 1000 pixels in width or height', qualifies as disrupting Wikipedia? Sheesh, there is a cabal. —Vanderdeckenξφ 20:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. There are thousands of ballpoint pictueres out there, so the one that's unique is "not encyclopedic?" Under the logic of opposing the photo because it doesn't portray anything "we couldn't see just by looking at the tip," then we might as well get rid of all FP subjects that we can just pick up and look at.—DMCer 07:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sounds fine to me. If the picture doesn't illustrate something usefully, then it's not encyclopedic and not worthy of being an FP. As far as pens go, I'd sooner support a cutaway diagram that helped illustrate how the ball mechanism works or an historic shot of Bich's early models. Those would be useful; this picture, with all respect, is not particularly. Matt Deres (talk) 16:45, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support hello? I have a higher res version of the photo, im the one that took it
  • Support I just uploaded the higher res version, I took this photo like 4 years ago, sorry about the grain I was using cheap negitive film, I gave some noise reduction in photoshop, I will actually take another ultra closeup ballpoint pen photo with my new digital slr, since taking this photo I graduated with a degree in photography and will take another photo like this, hopefully better then this one! Its actually really strange to see a discussion board talking about one of my photos, ive never seen such a thing about one of my photos, I own my own business as a professional photographer now, my site is http://www.benyoungphoto.com. More photos will be added to my site as time goes on and I am happy to answer anything anyone might wonder about photography!

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Lander777 (talkcontribs) 17:20, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]