Welcome to Picture of the Week (POTW) for the period 17 - 31 October 2017. It’s my pleasure to host this week, and thanks again to Aslyfox for hosting last week.

POTW is a great spot to show off six or fewer shots you take or are editing within the thread's date range. In other words, you can post your shots from this week AND last week.

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Read more at: Picture of the Week (POTW) # 474 - 17 October to 24 October 2017 - PentaxForums.com

Starting us off with an Abstract










---------- Post added 10-24-17 at 03:20 AM ----------

If you are wondering why I've skipped #475- and how I got to 476 that is because we had double #473.

[SSGGeezer]

The following are from last week's day trip to Boston with my wife.
1 Shot from the window of the Amtrak Down Easter.
2. Beacon Hill Garden in Shadows.
3. Bust of Arthur Fiedler near the Boston Pops Band shell on the Esplanade.
4. "The Goal" Statue of Bobby Orr after a Stanley Cup winning Overtime goal. Just Outside North Station and TD Garden.
5. Tom and Athena on the Esplanade overlooking the Charles river.
Thanks for looking.

[rjbrett]

Thank you Noelcmn for hosting! - Is that a native bee there? Your shots always have such good color.

I got an Industar-61 L/Z 50mm (preset close up to 1:2.5 or so) in the mail last week, and have been up early in the mornings catching small things while they're still cool and sluggish. All of these were taken handheld at ASA 400 at about f8 - f16, and using 11 or 20mm extension tubes. I've started processing these from raw for greater detail and control, not that they needed too much. They've been cropped by 1 - 2/3, and sharpened on downsizing.

I suspect I'd get sharper and more detailed pics using the Takumar macro but am enjoying the slightly "dreamy" look as these fade into a blur.

[mattb123]

I tried to get meteor shots weekend before last. I technically got some but it was so windy they are blurry and not up to my standards.
After the sun came up saturday morning, I could see the strorm that brought the wind brought some snow as well.
645D & 67 300/4


I got some good stuff last weekend.
Took the K-3 & 18-135 biking and hiking.







Last night I was fortunate to shoot a nice sunset from a good location. It was a little windy but tolerable.
645D & FA 45-85


645D & A 35

[aaacb]

Live music this week (k3ii, fa 50)

[geomez]

From Saturday

[noelcmn]

Wow everyone, some awesome shots- POTW is rocking this week! Keep them coming!

[EBirdy]

Spent an early morning in Long Beach, California for an Easter Seals event that the photo club I'm in volunteered to photograph. I always grumble about being up so early, and I always end up grateful that I was.

[SJM]

A few from the Spooky Pooch Parade in Lakewood Ohio and a few from a foggy morning drive.

[aslyfox]

at the Rain Forest Exhibit in the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center

K 3 + Smc Pentax-DA L 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR

hand held, natural light

1 no crop or pp

2 cropped and pp

3 more crop and pp

[Barbara Fu]

Thank you Noelcmn for hosting! - Is that a native bee there? Your shots always have such good color.

I got an Industar-61 L/Z 50mm (preset close up to 1:2.5 or so) in the mail last week, and have been up early in the mornings catching small things while they're still cool and sluggish. All of these were taken handheld at ASA 400 at about f8 - f16, and using 11 or 20mm extension tubes. I've started processing these from raw for greater detail and control, not that they needed too much. They've been cropped by 1 - 2/3, and sharpened on downsizing.

I suspect I'd get sharper and more detailed pics using the Takumar macro but am enjoying the slightly "dreamy" look as these fade into a blur.

I've always loved that breed of spider, little jade creature.
I let my battery get run down and it reset my date to 2006. Fixed now, so I'll do a little shooting this weekend.

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at the Rain Forest Exhibit in the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center

K 3 + Smc Pentax-DA L 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR

hand held, natural light

1 no crop or pp

2 cropped and pp

3 more crop and pp

FYI I like the second one best--just a little touch-up but you get the whole bird.

[aslyfox]

. . . FYI I like the second one best--just a little touch-up but you get the whole bird.

thank you for the comment

I was able to capture the image in a way that it makes it difficult to tell that the bird is in a zoo exhibit.

when I first saw the bird, I thought that if I could get the focus onto the bird the leaves would be a " frame "

I too like the image which is the first crop but I went one further just to see how well it would hold up to a bigger crop.

[dlneubec]

Wow, excellent work everyone! I wish we had such diverse subjects in my area

Here are a couple more from our trip to northern Michigan, plus one from the backyard. The one with the berries was one of the first shots with a new Sigma 17-50mm 1:2.8 EX DC HSM that I picked up recently (used). So fare I'm very pleased with it.

[nosliwmit]

Wow everyone, some awesome shots- POTW is rocking this week! Keep them coming!

Wow indeed. Great week for POTW!

I spent last weekend in Seoul. LIved there from 2008 to 2012 but hadn't been back until this trip. I still love it. We had fabulous weather and did some touristy things like visiting Gyeongbokgung Palace where, if you rent period costume, you get a discount on admission. It makes for great atmosphere and photos, though the "dabbing" probably isn't historically accurate (clearly not everyone, myself included, "gets" dabbing). The van bears a sign demanding the immediate release of impeached President Park Geun-Hye.

I only brought my K-5 and my DA 16-85 F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR lens with me.

[noelcmn]

I'm liking this POTW more- thanks for posting everyone. There's plenty space and time for more.
Love that shot of the berries dlneubec. And nosliwmit, that 2nd shot is magical, full of atmosphere! Lovely!