Welcome to the 606th edition of Pictures of the Week (POTW), covering the period 22 August to 5 September, 2020. Let's see what you have been shooting.

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I was playing around with some macro photography and goofy settings on the camera in the kitchen yesterday and ended up with a few images that I like (all taken with my K1ii and D-FA 100 macro:

A pour spout for a bottle of olive oil:


A meat thermometer:


And a citrus zester:

[ramseybuckeye]

Thanks for hosting, due to some unexpected travel with limited opportunities to shoot, I haven't go much this week and may not next week either. But I have a few, all with the KP and 55-300 PLM:

FemaleRuby-throated Hummingbird perched in a tree,


I think this is some type of lily


Female Cabbage White

[smf]

Thanks for hosting, nosllwmit.

Hoping to give people something to which they can look forward during the pandemic, I have been posting a daily floral photo at Facebook.

Here are two of those photos, captured with a monopd-mounted Pentax K-S2 and an older Pentax 100mm macro lens.

The dahlia Wildcat is one of approximately 300 varieties planted and maintained by volunteers at Dahlia Hill in Midland, Michigan.

The Cardinal Flower is in friends' garden — also in Midland, Michigan.

Best wishes,
Stu

[noelcmn]

Thanks for hosting nosliwmit. Lovely stuff as usual here. Visited Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens on Monday, a fruitful visit. This contribution is from that visit.
Blessed to see Brown-hooded Kingfisher


And a Cape Rock Thrush


The Cape White Eye was a bit more elusive


Some of the flowers is just plain enchanting




And annually, there is an abundance of these in the gardens, I found a few trees laden with these

[aaacb]

Two abstracts of buildings I see on morning walks around the neighborhood. Photographing the same familiar mundane is challenging, but at the same time it's interesting to observe how changes in light reveal new compositions. In particular the first photo doesn't work if the light is too flat, or too directional, depends on the cloud cover
Both with K1ii, first FA 100 macro and then FA 80-320

[jcdoss]

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Zeke and Wesley
Pentax K-1 mII Ltd Silver, A20f2.8

[nosliwmit]

Thanks to everyone who shared. Some great photos this time!

I just started the POTW #607 thread. Hope to see you there!