Picture of the Week Year two 03/30/09 - 04/05/09
Welcome to POTW #55

I was honoured to be invited by dadipentak to host this week. I really appreciate how this recurring thread encourages mixing forum visits with getting out there & taking shots (I'm working on it! Thank goodness it's finally warming up here in Canada) and sharing those shots with a community that cares. So shoot, post and comment away!

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 03/29/09 - Sunday 04/05/09
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, 52 Peter Zack, 53 Peter Zack, 54 dadipentak, 55 David Whiteley

You can go back to see last weeks shots here

[dadipentak]

Great gators, Tom! (sounds like something out of Batman, doesn't it?)

Glad to see your herons, Borno. We've had reports of their return to our local streams, too.

[seacapt]

Great photos folks !

Sorry !Same old boring model photos from me:


Tran

Well Tran, she's neither old, nor boring....

And the second shot has great bokeh too!

[David Whiteley]

OK, finally I have a moment to spare to check out & comment on all these great submissions:

planediver - I especially like the sunken boat - evocative!

dadipentak - sweet backlighting on #3

daacon - good on you finding signs of life!

peter - I was initially completely fooled by the scale of first shot (thought it was pinpoint of light on a log in a shed or some such). Nice Newfoundland series. Amuzing as a Canadian to see "the Rock" explained, but of course on an international forum that's what's needed.

daacon again - you're prompting me to use my fisheye more. here's one I shot today with the fisheye as a publicity photo for a play I'm mounting at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, "The Beer Tent" (as seen on the story thread):



bramela - my peachface lovebird would be so jealous of those colours!

venturi - nice flowers, but it's the last shot that totally got me! EXACTLY!

vinceloc - clever "spokes" and very relaxing shots on the water

borno - that sharp eye on the second shot w/ TC is bang on!

octavmandru - is "somewhere around" Japan? I, like others, like the 3rd shot best

daacon yet again - keeping at it despite the endless white. good on you.

seacapt - crazy bokeh in that first shot!!

rense - that fisheye shot somehow really works for that portrait (the round lenses obviousy suggest it). That's how I picture Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld in Alexander McCall Smith's Portuguese Irregular Verbs & subsequent novellas. If you don't know it, it's a hilarious quick read.

timbo 13 - enjoy the weekend in the woods. don't drown in the parking!

daacon revisited - those first shots are much like my tests of the new lenses; done with the snow yet???

tpeace - love the gators!

xs400 - yup, that's different!

borno - wow, I love herons and those are great examples

dantuyhoa - nice isolation of the subject in shot 2

WHEW!

[stevebrot]

Great photos folks !

Sorry !Same old boring model photos from me:

Yep...same old boring models...yawnnnn...


Steve

NOT!

[stevebrot]

I have been away too long! This week has some really great stuff! The clouds have finally parted and the first real flowers of spring have started. Here are a few from this evening...(both with the Sigma 50/2.8 Macro)





Steve

[xjjohnno]

Haven't upped all my pics for the week so for now some of the early week efforts.

[seacapt]

Hey David , I think that I've seen bottles that looked like this before but at that time I had allready consumed a beer or 12. Really an interesting perspective shot.

[borno]

Here are some turtles trying to get some sun as it came out breifly between storms. I think they need a bigger log



and a tourist shot of the lighthouse at the end of my street:

[xs400]

Here's a few B&W shots for my latest homework assignment.

[planedriver]

Hi Everyone,

I was kindly asked by David to host the next week's POTW challenge. The new thread will be launched very soon. Keep shootin'

Cheers, Andras

Flickr: sopiandri's Photostream