Welcome to Picture of the week #246 covering 23 December 2012 through 6 January 2013. Since the last POTW was a short one I'll go ahead and host this full week, if you would like to host next week please send me a PM, otherwise I will be asking you. Last week there was a lot of variety and quality here, let's keep it up! This POTW 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. We can share ideas, learn from one another, and have a good time. There are just so many splendid photos out there so let's see you post them to this POW 245

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) 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 bluestringer, Moderator via PM.

Here are the records of 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 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 xjjohonno, 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, 180 lukulele, 181 lukulele, 182 rob 1234, 183 lukulele, 184 lukulele, 185 pentaximus, 186 ramseybuckeye, 187 ramseybuckeye, 188 StDevious, 189 Free Soul, 190 Clou, 191 brvnara, 192 pentaximus, 193 Noelcmn, 194 Noelcmn 195 GmcarsMAN, 196 jmschreii,197 wolfiegirl, 198 xjjohnno, 199 Arn , 200 Peter Zack, 201 bluestringer, 202 cif, 203 Rollsup, 204 noelcm, 205 Davidw0815, 206 Davidw0815, 207 cif, 208 ramseybuckeye, 209 paulh, 210 Oldschool, 211 SpecialK, 212 mecrox, 213 pentaximus, 215 bramela, 216 jmschrei, 217 Exandr, 218 Noelcmn, 219 Noelcmn, 220 sergiu, 221 sergiu, 222 sergiu, 223 sergiu, 224 sergiu, 225 sergiu, 226 sergiu, 227 sergiu, 228 Davidw08, 229 reeftool, 230 reeftool, 231 cif, 232 mecrox, 233 mecrox, 234 glennbp, 235 glennbp, 236 pentaximus, 237 pentaximus, 238 pentaximus,239 Paul, 240 Nick Nero, 241 Arnold, 242 Arnold, 243 Arnold, 244 Arnold, 245 Nick Nero, 245 ramseybuckeye

[ramseybuckeye]

The Amish practice agriculture like we did before the industrial revolution:


while just on the other side of the fence their neighbors do things differently:

[dave kitson]

Watery theme this week......

Fairy Glen on the river Conwy;


Llanwrst Bridge on the Conwy:




Taking down the flood defences at Bewdley on the river Severn:


dave

[ramseybuckeye]

Watery theme this week......
Fairy Glen on the river Conwy;
Llanwrst Bridge on the Conwy:
Taking down the flood defences at Bewdley on the river Severn:
dave

Dae, what a beautiful trio. Well done on all of them!

[lukulele]

Thanks again Tom. Dave, looks so inviting for January.Waiting for kitty litter.....K-01 brick test.

[nosliwmit]

Hi all and Happy New Year!
Drove from Seattle to Vancouver on the 30th and by the side of highway 99 north of White Rock we saw some trees with about 50 bald eagles in them. Tried to get onto an access road that would let us get closer but ended up driving around aimlessly for 45 minutes before getting back on to the highway. This time around though the camera was ready. My wife shot this out the window of the car doing 60 miles an hour. My new K-5 with the DA 55-300mm.

[Nick Nero]

Tom,
big thank you for hosting #246 and now again and doing such a good job with it Was a lot of truly awesome contributions last potw.

Hollidays over and back in the loop there hasn´t been much time for taking the camera out for a spin lately. These few from last Friday is about all I´ve done the past couple of weeks. Well, did some night shooting last night but they need some looking over before posting anywhere.

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[ramseybuckeye]

Thanks again Tom. Dave, looks so inviting for January.Waiting for kitty litter.....K-01 brick test.

Nice of them to put that huge bulls eye up there for your brick test

Hi all and Happy New Year!
Drove from Seattle to Vancouver on the 30th and by the side of highway 99 north of White Rock we saw some trees with about 50 bald eagles in them. Tried to get onto an access road that would let us get closer but ended up driving around aimlessly for 45 minutes before getting back on to the highway. This time around though the camera was ready. My wife shot this out the window of the car doing 60 miles an hour. My new K-5 with the DA 55-300mm.

That's remarkable, and your wife is pretty good at that car window shooting! However 50 is not right, I'm pretty sure there are at least 60 there! I thought you had to go to Alaska to see anything like that. WOW

Tom,
big thank you for hosting #246 and now again and doing such a good job with it Was a lot of truly awesome contributions last potw.

Hollidays over and back in the loop there hasn´t been much time for taking the camera out for a spin lately. These few from last Friday is about all I´ve done the past couple of weeks. Well, did some night shooting last night but they need some looking over before posting anywhere.

Nick, thanks for that tour of Stockholm. I like your choice of wide panoramic type shots, I like them. Hope you can post a couple of those night shots here.

[jmschrei]

Thanks for hosting Tom! (And thanks for redirecting me to this newer edition) I got out for a winter walk in a forest this weekend and captured some scenes to explore Nik Software's Color Efex Pro with:

[ramseybuckeye]

Thanks for hosting Tom! (And thanks for redirecting me to this newer edition) I got out for a winter walk in a forest this weekend and captured some scenes to explore Nik Software's Color Efex Pro with:

Joe, those are some excellent views, especially the two with the sun. They both have such a different look because of the cloud affected light. Good stuff!

[arnold]

Thanks for hosting ramseybuckeye. Enjoying the winters scenes above. Here in Australia a nation wide heatwave has fires breaking out all over the country.
This picture taken last week is by a 1959 H2 Pentax with an old Auto Tacumar 55mm f2.0 lens. The film was old expired Fuji 200. The picture is unprocessed as it came from the camera but could do with some help. It was a very hot day if it isn't obvious.

[paulh]

Thanks for hosting again Tom - some spectacular examples on display this week! Arnold, I can feel the sweat in my eyes looking at that shot. We had our own Summer of Hell a couple yrs ago, with 100 days of 100F temps or more

I was hiking in a very desolate area not too far from home, and I thought the scenery (or lack of) lent itself well to monochrome. All taken with a K10D & 18-55 kit lens.




At least the sky offered some color...

[Douge]

Thanks for hosting again Tom. Lots of beautiful shots already!

Just took a few shots today. Heard a cardinal singing outside, grabbed my camera and saw it sitting up there on the roof. This is with my 35mm lens so it's kind of far away. Shot through the window.




For interest, here is what it looks like full-crop. f5.6 through the window.



After getting a few shots, I went back and got my old SMC Takumar 200mm and adaptor, in hopes I could get a shot with it. But the cardinal was gone when I returned. Only saw this shy little bird, which usually hide under trees. I just snapped it quickly before he flew away, so wasn't able to get a better shot. Wonder what the name of this bird is.




(I was able to get some shots of bohemian waxwings about a month ago. Never saw them around before. Saw cedar waxwings in the spring. Beautiful birds.)

[Lachy]

Thanks for hosting again Tom. Lots of beautiful shots already!

Just took a few shots today. Heard a cardinal singing outside, grabbed my camera and saw it sitting up there on the roof. This is with my 35mm lens so it's kind of far away. Shot through the window.

For interest, here is what it looks like full-crop. f5.6 through the window.

After getting a few shots, I went back and got my old SMC Takumar 200mm and adaptor, in hopes I could get a shot with it. But the cardinal was gone when I returned. Only saw this shy little bird, which usually hide under trees. I just snapped it quickly before he flew away, so wasn't able to get a better shot. Wonder what the name of this bird is.

(I was able to get some shots of bohemian waxwings about a month ago. Never saw them around before. Saw cedar waxwings in the spring. Beautiful birds.)

The colour of that cardinal is incredible! I'm a bit of a newbie, what does full-crop mean?

I took a few snaps of a '61 Cadillac I came across. Wish I had a chance to get it in front of a decent backdrop!


Shot this one in a nearby paddock before my friends and I were kicked out by a farmer who thought we were stealing his sheep, ha!

[Nick Nero]

Thanks for hosting Tom! (And thanks for redirecting me to this newer edition) I got out for a winter walk in a forest this weekend and captured some scenes to explore Nik Software's Color Efex Pro with:

Gotta say the top one drew me in with it´s subtle feel of being painted. Nice. / Nick