Welcome to the 631st edition of Pictures of the Week (POTW), covering the period June13-June 19, 2021. Let's see what you have been shooting.

I am starting this thread with three of the images I previously posted at Facebook. During the pandemic I have been posting photos to give friends and relatives something to which they could look forward. These three images were captured with my monopd-mounted Pentax K-S2 and an older Pentax 100mm macro lens.

POTW is a great spot to show off six or fewer shots you take or are editing within the thread's date range.
To post your great photos, just hit reply and attach away. Feel free to start immediately.

Please:
• consider including in your post any special circumstances or tips on technique or equipment which might be interesting to others.
• identify your camera and lens if that information is easily available to you.

And please invite other Pentaxians to join us.

Some rules:
1) No theme, just post your favorite pix
2) Six or fewer images per person per thread to prevent thread bloat
3) Any Pentax, Ricoh or Samsung camera, film or digital

The current host will invite a new host via Private Message (PM), but if you are interested and willing to host POTW, please send me a PM, before I contact others.

Thanks very much to all previous hosts and to people who have posted images!

If the thread doesn't start, please contact the host, via PM. Here are the records of recent POTW thread hosts: 390-406 smf, 407-408 ramseybuckeye, 409-411 stubyles, 412-423 SD_Bob, 424-427 dave kitson, 428-451 smf, 452-454 StephenHampshire, 455 Aslyfox, 456 StephenHampshire, 457-466 noelcmn, 467 Aslyfox, 469-470 aaacb, 471-472 Madmathmind, 473 Eva, 474 rjbrett, 475 Aslyfox, 476 - 485 noelcmn, 486 - 488 rjbrett, 489 clackers, 490 - 498 rjbrett, 499 StephenHampshire, 500 smf, 501 StephenHampshire, 502-505 Eva, 506-525 Vaskebjorn, 526-538 noelcmn, 539-547 aaacb, 548-563 Eva, 564-571 noelcmn, 572-579 nosliwmit, 580-587 aaacb, 588 noelcmn, 589-590 nosliwmit, 591-593 Eva, 594-600 nosliwmit, 601 smf, 602-604 noelcmn, 605 smf, 606-626 nosliwmit 627-630 aaacb

[CedrusMacro]

Glad I grabbed a couple of shots before the cloud cover came and muted the light.

[noelcmn]

I'll contribute

[CedrusMacro]

Like the red hot pokers noelcmn.

[aaacb]

Thanks for restarting this series. It's a bit out of the date range by 10 days, but this is the most recent with a qualifying camera (gr iii)



Now I need to take some photos and I'll update

[nosliwmit]

Hi all. Thanks for starting the thread Stu! Looks like good participation so far...

I'm leaving Hong Kong this evening after a fantastic 4.5 year assignment here. Dublin's next and I look forward to taking a lot of photos there. I wandered around HK a bit last weekend and took some photos. There are unlimited photo opportunities here and I will miss it!

At a tram stop (may be a stop identifier):


At a tiny temple in Central:


A dedication ceremony for a new business:


Shop shutters:


A massive fire hydrant in Central:

[GFE]

PENTAX K1
SIGMA 105mm macro

Attached Images

View Picture EXIF

File Date

 

View Picture EXIF

File Date

 

View Picture EXIF

File Date

 

[noelcmn]

Like the red hot pokers noelcmn.

Thank you!

I'm leaving Hong Kong this evening after a fantastic 4.5 year assignment here. Dublin's next and I look forward to taking a lot of photos there. I wandered around HK a bit last weekend and took some photos. There are unlimited photo opportunities here and I will miss it!

I'm gonna miss all those fab shots from Hong Kong! Everything of the best in Dublin

[Michail_P]

[aaacb]

a couple more, both with k1mii

m 50/1.7 lens



m 135/3.5 lens

[smf]

Thanks very much to all who have participated in this thread! I hope to post a new thread either later today or Monday — unless someone volunteers to do so.
Best wishes.
Stu

[shideg]

Truth In Jazz big band at the Elkhart Jazz Festival, Elkhart, IN

IMGP1668.jpg
Pentax K-3 II
smc PENTAX-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED

IMGP1834.jpg
Pentax K-3 II
smc PENTAX-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED

IMGP1898.jpg
Pentax K-3 II
smc PENTAX-DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 ED AL[IF] DC WR

[smf]

The new thread is at POTW #632 Covering Period 20 June through 26 June 2021 - PentaxForums.com

Thanks again to all participants!

Stu