Thanks for asking me to host Tamia, you always do such a great job that I have high standards to meet this week.

POTW #150 January 23 - February 6

Welcome to the 150th edition of the Pentax Forum's Picture of the Week!

This edition covers photos taken between January 23rd and February 6th, 2011. That lets you show off any shots you took last week but haven't processed until now. In other words, you can post your shots from this week AND last week! Not a bad deal, eh?

A special welcome to all new members: Join us old hands and post your shots from this week and last week!

POTW is a great place to show what you've been shooting day-to-day. It gives us all a chance to see what other members are up to with their Pentax (and Samsung) cameras in the parts of the world in which they live or have visited. We can share ideas, learn from one another, and have a good time.

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

Again same rules as always:

1) No theme, just post your favorite pix.

2) Lets keep it to fewer than 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 January 23rd to Sunday February 6th 2011. <i>Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes.</i>

5) The current host will appoint the new host as an invitation via Private Message (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 back at the previous POTW's.

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, 126 twitch, 127 stevebrot, 128 ohce, 129 jmschrei, 130 photolady, 131 photolady, 132 bbluesman, 133 rparmar, 134 reeftool, 135 reeftool, 136 Oldschool, 137 xjjohonnol, 138 KarenH, 139 Rense, 140 daacon 141 Tamia
142 JeffJS 143 bbluesman 144 fotaki 145 fotaki 146 Woof 147 Bramela 148 Bramela 149 Tamia

[noelcmn]

Thank you Nomad for hosting this week. Some great shots once again. Apologies, I was not able to post anything to the last weeks POTW, apologies to Tamia. Had little chance to get the trigger finger going.
But was able to do some yesterday, and I am off on a bit of a weekend trip, so better get these posted before Sunday. I am so loving these snow pics, and feel guilty posting images from Sunny South Africa, and now that the flooding rains have subsided, there is more greenery than anything else.

Also visited two antique and collectable shops, what opportunities there for pics. Could spend a day there.

Hope you don't mind me posting more than my regular share.

1. Green meadows with the city on the horizon
2. Our trees do not have snow, but other white things
3. A building close to where I live.
4. Some antique implement-who knows what it is-mounted on the fence.
5. And another farming implement, mounted on the fence.

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[Tamia]

Between work and shoveling, I haven't had much time to shoot, but did get these after the storm. The first one was in today's furious flurry, but the river shots are from yesterday when the sun came out to highlight the foot of powder we got.

Waiting Out the Storm




Snowmounds




Reflections




Snowy Riverbank




Sparkling Shallows

[Bramela]

Those shots are really beautiful, Tamia. They, at least make me feel a bit cooler.
Love the river shots.

Photolady : humidity a bit above average. Extreme perspiration conditions, I can tell you.

I haven't had the camera out in a couple of weeks, who would want to venture out in that.???
I will have a lot of catching up to do, I think.

[BlueBubbleBoy]

For some reason I have never seen the POTW threads before. Hope you guys don't mind if I join in. This looks fun. Here are a few I took last week. Some of you may have seen a couple of them on the critique forum already, so for you sorry for the duplicates.





And a little break from the kid theme.

[rparmar]

Nice Barry, good to have a new face! And that first face is especially wonderful!

[BlueBubbleBoy]

Nice Barry, good to have a new face! And that first face is especially wonderful!

Thanks for having me!

[Tamia]

Welcome to POTW, Barry! What beautiful eyes in the child in the first photo.

Thanks Bruce. I hope it cools off for you soon down there.

A couple more from the snow days:

Cobwebs




Snowbrella I sometimes use an umbrella when shooting in snow and rain. Cheap and portable protection.

[rparmar]

invasion by air

[Colbyt]

New plastic wonder, kit lens, 50-200mm. These were shot on an an overcast day at f5.6, aperture priority mode through my kitchen window glass. No PP other than cropping and light compression.

[Nomad]

Hi again all,

My apologies for being a bit of an absent host this week but work issues have kept me jumping a bit. I did get out to shoot a bit today and captured this somewhat boring shot of Goat Island Light in Maine. Flat light just about 10 minutes before the skies opened up with very heavy snow.

[rparmar]

From yesterday with a 24mm version of the Vivitar A01.


Schweppes in kitchen sun



Juno in kitchen sun



Crossposted to Pets.

[Clou]

Love the two cat portraits, but...

[rparmar]

LOL.

Clicked on the wrong link.