Welcome to edition 180 of the Pentax Forum's Picture of the Week. Thanks to Pentaximus for a great week of hosting and all of our worldwide community of contributors for their great work.

This edition covers photos from Sept. 4 to Sept 18, 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


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. A special welcome to all new members!

Again same rules as always:

1) No theme, just post your favourite 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) Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes.

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.

Here are the links to previous POTW threads:

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, 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 **** Brit, 31 maxwell1295, 32 maxwell1295, 33 dantuyhoa, 34 daacon, 35 Peter Zack, 36 **** 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, 150 Nomad, 151 Clou, 152 drugal, 153 rparmar, 154 Nomad, 155 jmschrei, 156 noelcmn, 157 noelcmn, 158 rwfarnell, 159 ramseybuckeye 160 christophleipzig, 161 JeremytheIndian, 162 SpecialK, 163 emetcalf, 164 emetcalf, 165 stevebrot, 166 rparmar, 167 Mattt, 168 JeffJS,169 jmschrei, 170 fotaki, 171 xs400, 172 TOUGEFC, 173 TOUGEFC, 174 Warped, 175 MaryAD, 176 Davidw0815, 177 baro-nite, 178 baro-nite, 179 Pentaximus

[ramseybuckeye]

Thanks for hosting lukulele! Some really fun stuff to start the week off so far. Thursday I received my new D FA 100mm macro, opened it packed it up and took off for a seven hour drive to help my son and his wife put hardwood floors in the house they just bought. There was very little time to play with the new lens, and mostly uninteresting subjects:

Got a couple of shots before we lest town of the old high school going down:


Down the street form the hotel in Clarksville:


Rose at the hotel:


One handed macro of my filthy watch:


Blue Tailed Skink, fast little critter:

[jheu02]

Some Airshow Pics from yesterday, still need to process more. 1st 2 are with a Promaster 28-200 AF lens, others with my Soligor 85-300 MF lens. If you're wondering about the difference in sky colors, it's due to having shot in "shade" WB mode, even though it was a sunny day . I overrode some of the RAW files to correct for the sunny conditions, but I liked the feel in some of the shots by leaving them in shade or cloudy WB

[reeftool]

The Adirondack Nationals car show in Lake George went on this past weekend despite 18 inches of rain and some flooding damage from Irene and Lee. The theme in the village was "we're open, come hell or high water" and it was a big crowd that turned out. Most of my shots were with the DA 10-17 and DA 15, pretty essential lenses in big crowds. Exposure is always difficult. Bright sun and strong shadows but I got some keepers.

[rparmar]

I shot these with my Leica 60mm Macro-Elmarit-R since I needed some promotional photos for my sound installation "Apophenic Ecosystem C10 C30", opening in Cork Wednesday 14 September 2011.


tape loop




noise high output

[lukulele]

Keep it up everyone! A P51 Mustang, Corsair, Nova, Mopar, wingwalker, tape drive, and skink all on one page. Great show so far!

[xjjohnno]

Some CBD pics.

[wendl]

Another drive along the coast.
Got a short tour of the gardens of a private estate. Last 3 pics.

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[wendl]

rparmar- interesting pics, love them.
reeftool- loving the cars, did a car show myself a while back, so much colour and chrome.
jheu02 The last 2 pics remind me of old postcards. Wonderful effect.

[daacon]

Robin - Like the framing on the Daisy and love the water drops on the web

Tom - where are all the shots of you being a foreman - Congrats on the new lens I am sure we will some more from that one like the skink

John - love air shows I like 'em all !

Richard - ahh car shows and fisheye two of my favorite things nice series.

Robin - cool shots I love the first one.

xjjohonno - love your street shots, a day in the life .....

wendl - nice series really like that second one

A few from the dog walk this evening ...

Fall is comming










And some are hnaging on (3 exposure HDR shot)

[xjjohnno]

Back to nature with today's pic, birds and plants.

[baro-nite]

xjjohnno: thanks for the tour around greater Melbourne and also the CBD -- I loved visiting your city a few years back and I did notice there's no shortage of graffiti along the railroads!

Robin: smooth bokeh indeed. Congrats on the opening; very cool cassette shots and #2 is very funny.

Tom: congrats on the DFA 100 macro, and go Elida Bulldogs (from an erstwhile crosstown rival).

John: great set from the airshow and the warm WB on the last two is perfect -- nostalgic effect as wendl says, and just right for the classic planes in those shots.

Richard: serious muscle there -- great choice with the fisheye for the Nova shot. I can hear the engine rumbling up.

wendl: +1 on the pano/crop and also #4 for a funny subject + impressionistic reflections off the water.

Dave: thanks for the fall preview -- we're not quite there yet in NC! Excellent subtle HDR in #4.

Of course fall up here means spring down there -- lovely set xjjohnno. One day I will get that close to a kingfisher...

[daacon]

baro-nite - thanks for the comments

xjjohonno - ah more exotic birds I have never seen half of the ones you have posted keep it up

Here is one I like to call overstating the obvious - this is a walking / Bike trail - the bridge is about 6 feet wide , someone felt compelled to post a no heay trucks allowed sign there.




Few Ducks







Some local wetlands

[EdwardConde]

From the 9/11Flag Memorial @ Pepperdine University

[pentaximus]

I like those, Edward. What's the effect on the first one?

[EdwardConde]

Thanks... Its a vintage filter i put on the image... I edited it on my iPad using a 2 programs... Filterstorm Pro & Snapseed (NIK Software). I did color adjustment on FS Pro then added one of the vintage presets from snapseed. The preset also has textures that you can apply.. so i added some texture to it.. Really, the reason for the texture was to hide some dust spots from the sensor but i really like how it came out. The shade over the stars is from the tree that was behind me.. and the sun was just rising also so that is why you see more light shining on the red & white. I did saturate the colors aswell... I only wish I was 1 step back, to get the bottom tip of the flag... but hey it is what it is.. and I love it!

Thanks again...