Welcome to POTW #51, 2/22/09 - 3/8/09 (Can you believe it has almost been 1 year!)

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) Date : Sunday 2/22/09 - Sunday 3/08/09
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, 31 & 32 maxwell1295 , 33 dantuyhoa, 34 daacon, 35 Peter Zack, 36 Damn Brit, 37 Borno, 38 Kevint, 39 Peter Zack, 40 Timbo13, 41 daacon, 42 daacon, 43 gawan, 44 dantuyhoa , 45 daacon, 46 rense, 47 daacon, 48 Rense, 49 borno, 50 Rense, 51 daacon

Thanks Rense for hosting last week.

Well some of you may know I was out of country last week - in Mexico for two fabulous weeks - here are few from the last day (This is around the resort we stayed at... I miss it already )

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[daacon]

This series was taken with my Camera but not me. This was from the second week and our kids were already home. The young lad (15) was the son of one of the couples we were traveling with. He loves photography so I gave him my backup K10 the DA* 16-50 and off he went. He then threw on the Sigma 105 - wish I had seen this - he did pretty good but would have loved to get a close up of that scorpion !

Nature's Selection - the many against the mighty and the many won hands down. When he showed me where this was about 20 minutes later there was no sign of the ants or the scorpion - the task was complete.

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This was some sort of worm they also dismantled.

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[borno]

This series was taken with my Camera but not me. This was from the second week and our kids were already home. The young lad (15) was the son of one of the couples we were traveling with. He loves photography so I gave him my backup K10 the DA* 16-50 and off he went. He then threw on the Sigma 105 - wish I had seen this - he did pretty good but would have loved to get a close up of that scorpion !

Good story and pics Dave,
I think I was 15 when I got my first slr, a srt100 and 55mm lens I had a lot of fun with that camera. I am going to scan those old negs one of these days

Here is this am sunrise:





And I'll throw in another Eagle just because

[virgilr]

So was over at my friends condo last night, and wanted to work out with the new Katzeye, so they wanted some shots of their bathroom remodel. No auxilliary constant light on hand- just trying to make do with a nightmarish lighting situation!

Have to say that the tungsten white balance setting did really well in this room- it is that warm in terms of color in this bathroom! All shots are from RAW.

All shots handheld, mix of ISO 800/1600. First shot is with the K 30mm wide open, rest are the kit lens at 18mm wide open (hence the pincushion distortion). Didn't take time to correct this in photoshop: was going for the art vibe of the shots for now! PP in lightroom- using the killer film emulation presets found on presetsheaven.com, then tweaking from there, with no higher than 45% NR in Lightroom.

[Peter Zack]

Well it would seem the first year of POTW's has come to a close. Some great images over the past year. Dave has asked me to start the second season as the first one started. So see the new one here:
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/mini-challenges-games/53459-picture-week-...tml#post516439

[gawan]

Thanks. I'll try one more time, but don't hold out much hope of being accepted.

Well, congratulations, your gull and one other is just accepted to PPG!

[dws1117]

Well, congratulations, your gull and one other is just accepted to PPG!

WOW! Thanks for posting! 2 out of at least 50 I'm on a roll! .

[Rense]

Wow! Awesome shots everyone.

Wayne, I've seen this one in the recently added.... Congrats!