Welcome to the 553 edition of Picture of the Week (POTW), covering 10Jun-23 June 2019. Let's see what you have been shooting these past two weeks. 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: #552 covering period 3 Jun- 16 Jun 2019 - PentaxForums.com




I'll start with :early morning training, citroen old timer show,birds and dragon fly? K-5 F300 mm for birds ,K100DSuper 50-135 mm,21 mm

[aaacb]

I have a few, mostly shot over the weekend. The first two are from one of those walks where I'm almost certain I should not bring the camera with me (k3ii and 55-300plm in this case), but I ended up liking the tree quite a bit.






Season for roses, many of my gr iii photos are close ups



and a heavy heavy crop from the back row with the gr

[eva]

I have a few, mostly shot over the weekend. The first two are from one of those walks where I'm almost certain I should not bring the camera with me (k3ii and 55-300plm in this case), but I ended up liking the tree quite a bit.






Season for roses, many of my gr iii photos are close ups



and a heavy heavy crop from the back row with the gr

Like those green bushes a lot.Nice series.It look like this GRIII is superior...

[StephenHampshire]

Its been a very wet week here in the UK (my Brother-in-law's farm is under 3 feet of water) but I did manage to get out a couple of times. One from earlier in the week then a few from the Mid Hants Railway's "War on the Line" event.

[rjbrett]

Thank you for hosting again Eva - that is a nice old Citroen, and I do like the bird flying past the tv aerials. I've just got small pics from carrying the little Ricoh GX100 around;







It may one day grow into something larger using more recent technology, but not on this weeks' budget, and probably next weeks' either...

[Merv-O]

1. Grafitti on a construction wall at PATCO Ashland Stattion (Voorhees, NJ)
2. Howard in his usual position
3. Wine rack at an Italian Restaurant
4.-6.: post-industrial design of the BMW store in Mt. Laurel, NJ

[noelcmn]

Thanks for hosting again Eva, some wonderful images here. I like the Damsel especially from that opening salvo.
A contribution from me
Playing with some portraits with the kids from the orphanage where I also worl




The Raynox got some action




The went for an outing, and it just so happened that there was a local soccer league in action.


I went practising some BIF at Florida Lake, where there is a heronry


And a Wasp that I rescued from certain death, as it was drowning in the bird bath

[Apet-Sure]

Thanks for hosting again Eva, some wonderful images here. I like the Damsel especially from that opening salvo.

Ditto. And the bird standing guard on the railing seems very evocative to me. Really like StephenHampshire's headshot of the steam locomotive, noelcmn's shots 3&4, and others.


I've been enjoying my new-to-me Pentax F 100mm Macro; fabulous lens. This squirrel in my neighbor's yard let me get quite close and just posed while I snapped away.