Compare the above image with this one, in which no strobe was used.
The following were shot using a strobe either on or off the camera, but certainly with the settings at something other than my onboard camera's full blast white-out.
Interesting lighting, too bad about the thumb (thanks Mari!)
Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
—Edmund Burke