POTW : This week from Sunday August 3rd - Sunday August 17th.

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, maxwell1295, ???

I'll start it off with a few pictures from this weekend...

[daacon]

I just got on to start this thanks Alan ! A good start the stairs are very cool, lovely LADY as always in #2 and nice pp in #3 I really like the expressions.

I was testing some bokeh shots today ... here are a few ...

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The wind put the wheat shaft OOF

[jthommo]

A few from last week

[dantuyhoa]

Thanks Alan .

I was just about to start the POTW , too .

Alan - First shot is very cool with all the geometry elements . I wonder how it looks in BW ? Love the "love" in your last image .

Dave - Your second image is very cool . I'm nutty guy for bokeh

My share . Nothing new but more boring image of model !

Barbarian on The Roof



We were both on the roof . K10D + DA*50-135 .

Tran

[dantuyhoa]

Dave - Thanks for the link about the FE but I won't looking at it .In fact I won't looking at any lens thread for a while . Not too good for my pocket and blood pressure

[gpaual]

off to a good start.....here's my contributions.....

[daacon]

jthommo - nice pleican ? shot looks like you got pretty close or a nice crop. Lovce the Landscape a bit of sun flare there and the ship is well framed. Maybe a BW conversion on the ship ?

Tran - Thanks for the comments. Again unique pose with the model shoot. Definatley out of the box thinking on that one. As for the Fisheye thread it is still growing haha !

gpaual - I like the framing on #1 , #2 is that fish bait ?

[daacon]

Going Green with this set ...

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Even with a CPL the light was pretty harsh in this one ...

[rmtagg]

off to another great start

[Bud]

Haven't posted here for awhile... great stuff so far this week, folks!

I decided to give my DA55-300 a walkaround test on a hike along the Ohio River this past weekend. Of course, the only thing I shot were bugs Old habits die hard... and the 55-300 performed very well...

Mating pair of Silvery Checkerspot Butterflies
1/640s f/7.1 at 300.0mm iso200


Robber Fly (Jerry Garcia re-incarnated?)
1/180s f/11.0 at 300.0mm iso320


Our high-octane Papillon, Pierre, and his favorite, slightly over-sized ball
1/1000s f/7.1 at 77.5mm iso250

[borno]

Great bunch of shots everybody I've had a tough week but managed a few birds

[KungPOW]

I have these posted in another thread, but I thought I might as well post them here as well.

Coments always welcome.

Eric.

[séamuis]

great set of street photos.

[daacon]

Rosemary - nice series - love the golf shots - unique take on the Bride and Groom. Wedding are sooooooooooooo expensive these days I hope more people include their passions in the event. Edit: I see she was teeing off on the bouquet ha-ha did she take a full grip and rip?

Bud - a nice series indeed Wow on #2 and #3 you do get a sense of speed.

Borno - Love the eagle in flight. I have not had much sucess with birds in flight. Rest of the series is good as well. Your tough week produced some stellar shots.

KungPow - great street photography. I think the BW conversion really adds to the shots.

A few more from me from the weekend. Click on image for larger view

I am surprised these guys are still around.



I like this shot see the one Goose checking me out ?



A little OOF but I like the bokeh

[reeftool]

I'm always amazed at the great bird pictures I see posted. I have been trying all season to get some decent shots of a Heron on one of our local lakes with no luck at all. He (or she) is very shy of people and usually will take off before I see him. Finally this weekend between all the t-storms and overtime I was paddling on the lake and was able to get some shots before he spotted me and took off. All with a K10D and Sigma 70-300 and cropped.