Looking awesome man, and the photo is great indeed with the colors and shadows. Thank you for the feature, that is a series 7 brush taking the abuse in the beginning by the way :D How about doing a demonstration of the chinese brushes? I should definitely acquire some.
When the muse is beside you and your spirit is high, even a W&N series 7 will be secondary. I am almost dead from writing about the far east, so a brush demonstration must wait a bit. But the longer hair gives some more room for making the squash-thing you do. If it is kolinsky sable the hair will straighten (if they are not broken), but you can also buy cheep white haired goat-brushes (also somewhere in Finland i'm sure) and they kind of lay down when wet... Ok it would be easier with a demonstration :)