Potw 21: 08.03-08.10

[Syb]

POTW : This week from Today Sunday 27th July to Sunday 3rd August.

Lets keep up the high standard of shots we have seen over the past weeks.

Rules as before:
1) No theme just your favorite stuff.
2) Let's keep it to about 4-6 images per post just so the thread doesn't get too big each week .
3) Any Pentax camera is fine, film, P&S, DSLR (or Samsung DSLR)
4) Runs for 7 days <Sunday august 03> to <Sunday august 10>
5) Enter anything you shot last week or this current week until the thread closes.

Previous hosts: 1 Peter Zack, 2 Eaglerapids, 3 rmtagg, 4 Peter Zack, 5 daacon, 6 Bramela, 7 mtnbearhug, 8 dantuyhoa, 9 gawan, 10 roentarre, 11 daacon, 12 Kris, 13 mtnbearhug, 14 SCGushue, 15 daacon, 16 maxwell1295, 17 dantuyhoa, 18 daacon, 19 maxwell1295,20 Bamela, 21 Syb, .... loop...

Let's start with a picture from my garden... no flower this time. A fence that needs attention!

[daacon]

Thanks for starting the thread Syb .... Nice shot - I am not sure maintenance is required, it may be beyond and now requires replacement
Here are a few from me - Click on image for larger view

[Syb]

Thanks Dave, the week has really started now. Nice shots of the small creek. Especially the one with the flowers!

And that fence of mine requires attention, I intentionally did not say repair. I think I will leave the fence untouched, and pay a little attention to it now and then. Say, for 1/125th of a second

[troywhite]

Parliament House in Canberra Australia

[Bramela]

Note previous hosts week 20 was me not Dave, I dont mind Dave getting some credit though

[2ipper]

A few night shots.

[rparmar]

Dromineer Rushes

I am pretty darned happy with this one. DA 16-45 at 19mm.




Houseboat Wake

Taken in Limerick on the Abbey River. Later in the day I was an hour away along the same waterway and what was pulling into the dock... the same houseboat! Either this was an enormous coincidence or they are the most laid-back spies ever and I'm being tailed!




Monkey Puzzle Tree

This looks like it has a subtle but odd halo effect as the result of some PP error or
other... but actually it pretty much looked like that IRL. An odd plant.

[Peter Zack]

Rain, rain go away. It's been dismal here but grabbed a few macros between showers. FA50mm f2.8. First 2 could be a little sharper but they were handheld.

[BPT]

All images open up to bigger ones
A bull moose in velvet


The mountain on the right behind the tree is ripple mountain, I should have cut down the tree, got it the way. Ok Ok I didnt plan on cutting down the tree.


Here is monk lake which I hiked into, worth the climb


This is the view as I was hiking back down

[borno]

Sorry, more Heron pics. Got these before worship sunday

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[Syb]

This is my first day hosting this thread and I'm having a great time! Come on, let's keep on getting these great shots across!

@ Troywhite: A surprising look at the temple of your national democracy: taken from a well chosen angle. The image has nice lines!

@ 2ipper: I saw those shots in other threads already, but especially the second one is still fascinating. Lighting a tree from the downside makes a weird impression.

@ Rparmar: great series. Water can make or break a photo. You succeeded in having it make yours.

@ Peter Zack: For an in-between-showers series, there are remarkably dry bugs. They are for a hand-held-shot-series, remarkably sharp! No flash used?

@ BPT: That's what I like about these threads: skipping from macro to wildlife, landscape panos and back.Impressive series of impressive mountains!Must have been a great hiking trip!

@ Borno: How many herons do you have nearby? Must be a lot, since you post them regularly. Great nature shots, especially the concentration and reflection in number two.

[rparmar]

Troy: Love the graphical qualities of that shot --great angle.

Peter: Amazing and scary spider.

Brad: I'm glad you didn't cut down the tree, but you might want to clone out the wires. I like the Monk Lake shot best I think.

Tom: Never too many heron shots! One of these days I'm going to find out where they nest here.

[borno]

Thanks Syb,
I think no. 2 is my favorite also. I don't remember seeing so many Heron as this year, alot of eagles too. Unfortunately the sprawl is reaching my little town so it's hard to find solitude. I try to keep my spot a secret (people with loose dogs really irk me)

[rparmar]

There was much activity in our back garden today -- apparently it was ant mating time. Over the course of maybe an hour winged ants and a much smaller caste without wings emerged in excitement from their nest.

I believe the females are the large ones. They mate and then fly off to seek a new colony.

Perhaps these shots are more documentary than artistic. It was distracting getting covered with flying ants, plus I had to run to do other work, so I did not get as many shots as I should have.

Ants At Mating Time



Winged Female Ant

[rmtagg]

Busy weekend! Nephew is designing jeans and wanted some pics of him modeling them. His brother had a BD party at a yummy but very dimly lit restaurant. And on the way home tried taking a few shots from the car