Letterwriting

Seal character, has no meaning. Or more accurately, it means [insert name]'s Seal. Artist added for decorative effect.

I didn't know you were a Seal fan.

Intelligence

Simple ?

Han

i like a good pen.

When I write letters, I usually write a draft, then a final with a fountain pen. And then I sign-stamp it too for good measure.

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Newell the Jewell [deleted] says:

very nice. what do the ideograms of your "sign" mean?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

parl says:

write letters???
you mean the kind where you need postage?
Nice focus.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

VincenzoF [deleted] says:

You do what?

You write letters?

Wow... How...

Er...

Quaint... :-)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Tampen says:

That gold thing in the middle - that's for picking your teeth while you type ?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Ryan Brenizer says:

Nice still-life.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

petitesoeur says:

you *are* an old-school gentleman -- haha! i thought it was chocolate or maybe make-up in the thumbnail-- silly silly me
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Newell - Yeah, I'm gonna have to look those up again. I'm not sure what the applied Chinese meanings are.

Parl - Thanks, but I really should have widened the DOF a little more and used a tripod. Just a late night inspirational thing.

Thanks for the kind comments all, and to those who fail to reply to my time-consuming missives: You suck.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

MacRonin47 says:

Wow, someone who writes actual letters on real paper with an analog writing instrument. Cool. Now if only my handwriting was legible, I'd actually consider doing that.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

.Ingrid. says:

Fancy. Nice image too.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

jonghooni says:

cool photo!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

ImGump says:

名字好像很复杂啊,看不出来
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

ImGump says:

oh, it's Korean
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

shapeshift says:

very nice photograph of a lost art. i blogged this photo to blogs.newamericamedia.org/photo-of-the-day/. new america media is a non-profit alternative news organization. please check it out to see if you would like to add or change anything. thanks
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

dylwhs says:

The characters are of course, back to front. In the picture as it is, the top left character is first, then the one below it, then the one in the top right, and the final one in the bottom right. The characters, so far as I can make out is 韓真敦印 in that order. The final character means 'seal/chop' , the first three characters form a name, with the surname 韓 appearing first, and the person's given name "真敦". In Chinese this would be romanised Han ZhenDun. Zhen means 'true, real' and Dun means 'kind hearted' (according to CEDICT). Han can be used to represent 'Korea' in one of it's uses, which is historical, but the likelihood of the chop inidicating it was korean is small, unless there are other non-Chinese characters there which make it explicitly korean (hangul for instance). Otherwise, its safe to assume it is a chop for someone with the name 韓真敦, and this person, could be Chinese, or korean, as Koreans also use "hanja" their equivalent of Chinese "hanzi" or Japanese 'kanji' in their names.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Christine Lebrasseur says:

The splendid photo would be perfect for the first contest "Pen, Pencils, Brushes, Inks,..." about

Fountain Pens :)

www.flickr.com/groups/pencils_brushes_inks/di scuss/721575...
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Blunder says:

Nice Parker 75, great to write with. I try to write at least a letter a week, by hand and I keep all my pens inked. I like the sign stamp too.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

16_sparrows says:

I love this photo! It would be great in the Letter Writers Alliance pool.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

uberdoog says:

The battle between digital and analog spills over to the journaling field. While I produce more content and in greater accuracy with the computer, I find that writing long hand (longhand?) is more therapeutic and aesthetically (visual) pleasing. To this day it's a struggle to decide which medium deserves my limited time.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

campatvt92 says:

Beautiful composition and colors.
Keep writing !
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

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