Welcome to the 617th edition of Pictures of the Week (POTW), covering the period November 7 to November 21. Let's see what you have been shooting.

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Here's my contribution for the week. My wife and I went out for a night hike in a nature reserve here in Hong Kong. Lots of little critters. Did a little walking around town before our safari. All photos taken with my K-1 Mk II. The first two with my 43mm f1.9 Ltd and the rest with my D FA 100mm WR macro (with my still relatively new AF160FC ring flash).

A building lobby where I imagine a cat-lover lives:


A shop cat in Sheung Wan:


A common archduke caterpillar:


An unidentified weevil:


A common rose swallowtail caterpillar:

[aaacb]

A common archduke caterpillar:

It's the first time I see one, whoa

I have photos shot with the same k1ii kit, fist fa 43 and second dfa 100 macro Inspired by one of the film simulation threads, I'm testing jpeg settings, it's based on the muted profile with slight tweaks and a magenta tint, not looking much like film anymore

[ramseybuckeye]

Thanks for hosting, I've never saw a caterpillar like that either, and it is a great photo of it.

Surfcasting from 7 November, on a barrier island with only boat access, my son in law has a boat.


On the 10th rain came down in the backyard while it was sunny, it was just sprinkling in the front yard


Yesterday afternoon I took a drive through Holly Shelter Game Lands, a large nature preserve just a couple miles away, it has a few areas that are pretty different from each other, this is the swamp area:


And this is the Long Leaf Pine Savannah:

[Tomas_IV]

Hello, this is first time I'm trying to post POTW, so thanks for hosting and I hope I got the style of such post right.
All the pictures are from a November 7 trip to hill Zebin and nearby sight Valdstejn's Loggia in Czech Republic and a stop near Konecchlumi on the way back. Everything taken with K-70 in RAW, finishing touches in RawTherapee. Most of the time I use either P and changing the aperture as needed or TAV mode and Auto ISO.

View from slope of Zebin towards the ruins Trosky visible on the horizon.
DA 18-135 @53mm f/13 1/125s ISO 100



Red admiral on the top of the hill Zebin
FA 80-320 @170mm and Canon achromatic close-up lens +2D (yes they work together with no vying ) f/14 1/100s ISO 200



Pigeons and a church under Zebin
DA 18-135 @24mm f/8 1/200s ISO 200



A cat guarding the entrance into the Valdstejn's Loggia
DA 18-135 @31mm f/8 1/60s ISO 320



Autumn colors in forest near Konecchlumi
DA 18-135 @135mm f/6,3 1/60s ISO 1000



Sunset from memorial above Konecchlumi church
Individual images (3) taken hand held with DA 18-135 @36mm f/6,3 1/125s ISO 200, stitched in Hugin.


Did I say the trip was to a hill and a nearby sight? Of course I have taken pictures of the chapel on the hill top and the Loggia itself, but these were not so interesting as the ones above in my opinion. How typical.

[SimonC]

A few photos I took this week at Salford Quays/Media City. It is an inspirational area and I have much to learn:-)

[noelcmn]

Thanks for hosting again Nosliwmit, and super shots in this weeks POTW. A quick contribution from me.
After rain


Playing around with a crown and the kids from the orphanage


My little friend from Delta Park


Florida Lake on Sunday-A glossy Ibis got me all excited- 3rd sighting in about 40 years




Some kid lost their ball


Rietfontein Nature Reserve again yesterday


Wings

[eva]

K5-50 - 135mm

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[turbo_bird]

From this morning in my yard. Our little maple tree still has a few leaves on it.


Goofing around with macros in my basement this past week.




And a couple frosty pictures from today out on a little quad ride with my daughter and our cameras.





All pictures taken with a Pentax K3 and Sigma 105 f2.8 macro.

Kristian

[nosliwmit]

Thanks everyone for participating. Some great photos again this week.

I have photos shot with the same k1ii kit, fist fa 43 and second dfa 100 macro

Very nice! I especially like the leaf.

Surfcasting from 7 November

Great series! Hard to decide which one I like best, but the surf-casting photo is definitely a winner.

Hello, this is first time I'm trying to post POTW

Thanks for joining us Tomas! I especially like the church and pigeons photo but I'm also a sucker for butterflies and cats...

A few photos I took this week at Salford Quays/Media City

Nice. I really like the colors and reflections in #2.

A quick contribution from me

Nice collection as usual. #1 is outstanding!

K5-50 - 135mm

Nice heron Eva!

From this morning in my yard

The frost pictures are great!

Sorry I'm late this week. I had a hard-drive melt-down that interrupted my weekly schedule. Catastrophe averted at least... I'll get another POTW started...

[ramseybuckeye]

From this morning in my yard. Our little maple tree still has a few leaves on it.

Kristian

That leaf photo is really , really good, superb.

[turbo_bird]

That leaf photo is really , really good, superb.

Thank you. I wish I'd taken more time and tried a bit different framing, but it's a bit late now. I think the weird octagonal out of focus branch is a bit distracting, and it would have been nice to get a closer shot to avoid cropping.
Kristian