It would be better if the back of the long pencil wasn't blurry in the back because other wise I can barely see the distance of it. Very nice photo and nice centering.
This pic is great. I think it should have been centered more though, and I would have upped the clarity on the shorter pencil, and begun the blur on the longer pencil a little farther away. Hard to explain, but overall good shot!
I like the idea, but the pencils being pointed toward the left edge of the picture causes the entire lower-right portion of the picture to be merely wasted space. Perhaps cropping could help, or keeping the composition the same but with the short pencil on the other side of the longer one.
I like the idea but for me the DOF is just a bit too shallow which is distracting. Not keen on the shadows under the pencils either and looks a bit oversharpened (the image not the pencils - no pun intended).
Nice to see something other than the obvious cameras, phones, buildings, flowers & rolls of film vs. memory cards though.