Welcome to POTW # 31

This week's photos will cover these dates: Sunday October 5th till Sunday October 19th.

Let's 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 14 days. Sunday October 5th to October 19th.
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, 22 & 23 maxwell1295, 24 dantuyhoa, 25 Gawan, 26 Peter Zack, 27 borno, 28 daacon, 29 gawan, 30 Damn Brit, maxwell1295

I'll start it off with this one from an event I shot last night...

[timbo13]

timbo13, I like the soft pastel look of the 1st shot. Roses in Maine mid October???

thanks, that's what appealed to me, too.

MA = Massachusetts Maine is ME

Roses will go until the first good frost. If you choose varieties wisely, they
can be pretty tough plants. Lucky for me my wife knows about roses.

[Peter Zack]

Opps I knew that. Sorry for the state mix up! I didn't know that about Roses. Cool.

[daacon]

Well anotehr good week.

Alan - nice opening is that a Guitar man or Piano man ?

Thommo - very serence scene there - talk about calm water.

Georg (the other) - interesting black nets on the stage eh. It may well be art.

Venturi- I love these kind of pictures and your are very good. Really like #1.

Tom - I don't see any herons ? Love # almost lookst like the boat is on the smoke. Beautiful colors in #2

Peter - good to see ya back- Nice perspective on #1. Great DOF on #3

Dave - nice way to kill some time - good series.

k100d - nice series the plate does indeed look 'hot' - interesting experiement with writting your name in space.

Gary - Like #2 - seems the inexpensive glass does well.

Dave - great shot of the train - you were in perfect position.

Frank - now that is Golden well done.

Kenj - nice series - the colors on that bee are interesting.

bbpa103 - what variety a tiger, handel and leaf ! well done.

code4code5 - the home studio did well and looks like you will have a model ther efor many years.

Jim- another Golden shot(s). Really like the color in #1

Tim - wow pretty late in the year for blooming well done gardening and shooting.

Peter - Nice statues and the grasshoppers days are numbered

Tom - back to the birds ! Well done. #1 is very good.

Alan - like #1 the reflection of color in the water. Nice DOF on the flowers.

Very good use of the lens and body this week

[rmtagg]

I know I have been MIA! there are some wonderful photos here this week

Here is our Mr Noah!


From a wedding I shot on sat in Philly, PA

Mr Noah looks like a really cool kind of guy Rosemary.

[OrenMc]

Heres one for now. Will load a couple more later when I have a little more time.
Never entered this contest before but it looks like fun. Many great photos so far!



Heres a couple more



One @ 2.8 for a little more bokeh

[thanh_tan]

First time join this topic, i post some photo of children

[gawan]

I have been busy with my work this week, so I have not had the time to post much. This week's POTW looks like another great week again, so many great entries! I hope to be able to shoot something this weekend.

Some photos that have caught my eye this time are for example:

Georg's red toned woman on stage, interesting!
Peter's couple doing modelling on the shore, very nice!
Simon's spectacular dancing moon!
Frank's and Kim's sunrise spectacles,
Rosemary's cute Mr Noah,
code4code5's and Tony's children photos,
Dave's old steam engine,
and .. and, oh well, Ican't keep track of them all...

Well done!

[Venturi]

I am at once impressed, humbled and encouraged by all of the great work posted this week. I've got to step up my game, but at least I know where the bar is set now.

My critic's eye is still very much in training so I just wanted to point out a few that immediately pulled me in: Tom's bass boat, Peter's yellow flower, Dave's benches, Gary's OOF wind chime, Ken's grab handle and Thanh's flower tosser.

This next one was one of those you just sort of stumble upon. I had gone out to the garden to see if there were any peppers left, that survived our neglect this year, I could use for fajitas last night - and I ended up filling a grocery sack. When I plopped them into the sink to wash them I saw this:


f/8, 1/60s, 1600

[stevebrot]

Here is one from me taken last Sunday. I have been doing a computer migration and have not been able to do any photo processing.

Trillium Lake, Mt. Hood, Oregon USA

Pentax-DA 18-55

[daacon]

Rosemary - nice series - great looking pooch there - like the ring shot as well

OrenMC - welcome and nice introduction beautiful crisp flowers

thanh-tan - welcome as well - a great kid series. I love shots of the little ones in action that second one is very good

Ventrui - nice colors I love the peppers green , red and jalepeno ..

Steve - I hear that I just finished setting up two new laptops - it takes so long to get all that play and work software on. That is a stunning picture very well done.

Great week all - I missed last week I think that was a first for me - I won't miss two in a row

[daacon]

It's been a while went out for a bit of a walk about today click on image for larger view ..





Our feathered friends are heading to warmer pastures



Fallen Soldiers



Some guys stay a litte longer and enjoy fall

[bruloup]

I have never posted here.. I am encamped in the takumar club and stuck on my camera a 55.18 tak

[Bramela]

A great week of submissions. Number and standard of shots is breathtaking. Well done all.
We are experiencing a very good Spring season down here in Aussie. With the good rain we have had and excellent temps, the flowers etc are better than they have been for some years.
Heres a couple I have taken recently :

Murraya (Aust. Native Shrub)



Crimson Glory Climbing Rose (pity about the burnt out sky)



Morning dew on rose leaf.

[gawan]

Great first POTW entries, bruloup!

I shot this today: