Welcome to the 125th edition of the Pentax Forum's Picture of the Week!
This edition covers photos taken between August 1 and August 15, 2010, or shots from last week you haven't processed until now.

Thanks to casil403 for hosting last week and thanks for choosing me as the host.

POTW is a great place to show what you're shooting day-to-day with your cameras. It gives us all a chance to see what other members are up to with their Pentax cameras in their parts of the world in which they live or have visited. We can share ideas and hopefully learn from one another which is great too!

So show us what you've seen in your little corner of the planet! I look forward to seeing all of what's out there this week.

Again same rules as before:

1) No theme, just post your favorite pix.

2) Let's keep it to under 6 images per post just so the thread doesn't get too big each week.

3) Any Pentax camera or Samsung SLR is fine, whether it's film, P&S, or DSLR.

4) Date: Sunday August 1 to Sunday August 15 2010. Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes. Old shots with a new look from post-processing during the open time period are also welcome.

5) The current host will appoint the new host as an invitation via PM. If possible, the new thread will be linked to the previous one and the new thread will start between Noon EDT and 5PM EDT on Sunday. If the thread doesn't start, please contact Peter Zack, Moderator via PM.

Previous hosts: Each one is a hotlink to that POTW thread to look past at the previous 117 weeks. 1 Peter Zack, 2Eaglerapids 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 19(2) daacon, 20 Bramela, 21 Syb, 22 maxwell1295, 23 maxwell1295, 24 dantuyhoa, 25 Gawan, 26 Peter Zack, 27 borno, 28 daacon, 29 gawan, 30 Damn Brit, 31 maxwell1295 32 maxwell1295 , 33 dantuyhoa, 34 daacon, 35 Peter Zack, 36 Damn Brit, 37 Borno, 38 Kevint, 39 Peter Zack, 40 Timbo13, 41 daacon, 42 daacon, 43 gawan, 44 dantuyhoa, 45 daacon, 46 Rense, 47 daacon, 48 Rense, 49 borno, 50 Rense, 51 daacon, 52 Peter Zack, 53 Peter Zack, 54 dadipentax, 55 David Whiteley, 56 planedriver, 57 daacon,58 Bramela, 59 daacon, 60 gawan, 61 virgilr, 62 daacon, 63 RickL, 64 Peter Zack, 65 Peter Zack, 66 Causey 67 daacon, 68 Bramela, 69 georgeweb, 70 daacon, 71 seacapt, 72 daacon, 73 AOski, 74 Rense 75 eccs19, 76 daacon, 77 xs400, 78 daacon, 79 Bramela, 80 borno, 81 legacyb4, 82 daacon, 83 gawan, 84 Rense, 85 Peter Zack, 86 davef, 87 davef, 88 xjjohnno 89 Bramela , 90 Peter Zack, 91 daacon, 92 stevebrot ,93 reeftool, 94 jezza323, 95 oldschool, 96 Iris, 97 Rense, 98 planedriver, 99 xs400, 100 Peter Zack, 101 Netuser 102 Photolady, 103 Tamia, 104 Irishwhite, 105 Ramseybuckeye, 106 xjjohnno, 107 Bumbibop, 108 JeffJS, 109 Tpeace, 110 Nomad, 111 Photolady, 112 rparmar, 113 Peter Zack, 114 casil403, 115 Tamia 116 JeffJS, 117 bbluesman, 118 Clou, 119 ruggiex, 120 Jimbow007, 121 jmschrie, 122 VaughnA 123 pop4, 124 casil403, 125 woof

[bbluesman]

woof - thanks for hosting !

mark - nice series such a zen like place

Thanks Dave-batter Up!

Lone Lily


Stretch Those Necks


Butterfly Uber Alles

[woof]

This year's version is a real winner in my book! Two thumbs up

Steve: Thank you very kindly. I like it too. This one took a little more work, and was the one I spent the last year pre-visualizing.

Again the K20D with DA 16-45mm - this time taken at early dawn, ISO 100, at f/22 and exposed for 30 seconds.

I just calibrated my monitor. Will someone please tell me if anything is awry.

[jkwhawk]

"Rocket Launch or Contrail Sunset" Aug 9. Kx, 55-300. Yes, there is still snow on the mountain.

[stevebrot]

Here are a couple from Friday's field trip to Mt. Rainier:

Van Trump Park


K10D, Pentax-DA 18-55/3.5-5.6


Point Success at Dusk


K10D, KMZ MC Zenitar 16/2.8


Steve

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[borno]

Here is a steamy summer sunrise.

[twitch]

All of these I took on 10-Aug.

An elegant lobby


Back to see the Torta again, if I was them I'd have taken a 3rd coffee rather than venture out in the weather


Not such a nice day today as you can see, I was sheltering my K-x under an umbrella.

[rparmar]

Butterfly Uber Alles: Bizarre indeed.

Twitch: That second photo is great!

[Clou]

A few from Monday

Towards the Joy of Driving


Colour contrast


Ferris wheel


Bent Triangle


Roof and O2

[jmschrei]

Across from the office I work in a pair of hawks have nested for two years. There are two young but one is larger and more active, he has been hopping around stretching his wings. It hard to get good shots when the nest is 25-30 feet up in a pine tree. here are three taken the other day.





-Joe

[casil403]

I have been so busy with working these days, not alot of time to do much else except sleep.
I managed to get out for a walk yesterday to the store and too the camera with. This one I liked. I miss my K7.

[Tamia]

WOW, such nice shots this week, folks.

I've been pretty busy but had a chance to relax with my camera...

Chickadee Portrait




Crabapples




India Pale Ale Sunflower




I experimented with some rain shots at dusk the other day. I need to work on that some more, but here are two which came from the experiment:

[daacon]

eccs19 - She is looking great for 90 ! Hope I get there. And I like the simple black background on #2 well done.

Jimbow007 - I love it! The last two almost looks like he is smiling,

Mark - Nice series not oftern you see a giant wasp ?

woof - nothing awry witb that shot. Well done.

jkwhawk - Wonderful shot you mush have been high up - I know about the snow on the mountains , last month I actually made a snowball.

Steve - nice I like the second one. Very moody.

Tom - one of my favorite scenarios. Water and sunrise. Well done.

twitch - nice urban series #1 is my favorite.

clou - nice night photos. Love #1 asd the ferris wheel.

Joe - pretty good shots for a difficult situation.

casil403 - I usually prefer flower in color but I like the composition and BW on this one.

Tamia - nice series #1 is great and you captured the raindrop in the last one.

A few more from the weekend ball.

Where you have a gathering of people someone will bring some retail merchandise ha!



A little artistic - Light Eater



Nursing some of the injuries during the down time



Hot weather - good ball and the most important aspect enjoying a cold one between games.

[tpeace]

Ignition sequence start - aka Trying out brust mode on the K20:








re-t

[reeftool]

It's been a hectic beginning of the week for me without time at all to get online much less go through my shots from the weekend. I took a short hike in the neighborhood Saturday and got off a few good ones. Unfortunately, it was windy and I ended up with a lot of dust on my sensor and now a lot of PP is in order to clean them up. The first shot is a little fun I had with the DA 10-17. This rather stubborn fly was annoying me for several minutes. After brushing him off several times, I finally decided to take a picture of him instead. For being such a nice subject, I sent him off in the wind . The second is some of the local landscape with the kit lens and a Tiffen polarizer.

[bbluesman]

Shade Please


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