Feeling patriotic

This is a project .. for a customer. The 'order' was to make something that relates European Union and law, so my idea was to symbolize the justice balance, the libra, with a mobile, balancing the flags of European countries.

All I needed were the flags:



a fishing line, some skewers and patience. An hour later, I had this:



It took me way longer to photograph this thing than to actually make it. I played a lot with the illumination, remote flash, diffuser, flash reflection, aperture... But I'm pretty happy with the results: