The pen is a very affordable Zebra F-701, I like them because they are all metal and therefor resist my horrible pen chewing habit. ;)

The Holder is actually an old American Standard Chrome Faucet Handle Escutcheon, from back when they made things like that out of solid blocks of brass. It's a cool pen holder. :)

If you go larger, you can see the dents on the "clicker" from my teeth ;)

beautiful lightning

Thank you Rafal, but it was just me taking advantage of the natural light and shadows in my office. Nothing fancy.

But also "only" using natural light needs one to have a good photographic eye! :)
Couldn't they give this pen holder an even longer name? ;) I didn't understand half of it ;)
My favourite pen is a Uni-ball Gelstick (http://www.uniball-na.com/main.taf?p=2,2,8). this is the best one I found so far, that really rolls without resistance! Because if I have to press too much on the paper (I like to get a nice thick line) I also squeeze my fingers too much on the pen, which hurts my middle finger after a while. So, this one is my perfect one! :)

I'd like to say a bit of both, but yes, there has been post processing. I used Aperture for the basics and then ran it through Tiffen Dfx using their black and white still life 2 filter.