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Picture of the Week #64 05/24/09 - 06/07/09 Everyone join in!
Posted By: Peter Zack, 05-31-2009, 03:22 AM

Welcome to Picture of the Week 05/24/09 - 06/07/09 #64

Another great POTW and some excellent images. Nice to see everyone's stuff and so many of you willing to share. Doesn't matter if it's a snap shot of the kids or a masterpiece that will make you famous. We wanna see what's been in your viewfinder.

You can see last weeks POTW here.

All of the past POTW's are now linked below under the name of the host. So it's easy to go back and view some past weeks.

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 05/24/09 to Sunday 06/07/09. Enter anything you shot last week or during 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 19(2) daacon, 20 Bramela, 21 Syb, 22 maxwell1295, 23 maxwell1295, 24 dantuyhoa, 25 Gawan, 26 Peter Zack, 27 borno, 28 daacon, 29 gawan, 30 Damn Brit, 31 maxwell1295 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, 56 planedriver, 57 daacon,58 bramela, 59 daacon, 60 gawan, 61 virgilr, 62 daacon, 63 RickL 64. Peter Zack

So to get things started. We have a new statue in Charlottetown. Yeah I know, boring... well not so much. It's fun to watch the passers by sit with him and how some are taken by surprise at his stare. Unique and it works well. This is our first Prime Minister Sir John A Macdonald (1867) and a logical choice since this is the city where Canada began.



I liked how the 2 old guys were sitting in the background as well.

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Great week, and stunning shots from you all!

These are random shots from today



06-06-2009, 04:23 PM   #108
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Pics from Saturday
A pair of fur ball being chauffered in a shopping trolley

Where there's eucalypts in flower there's a good change you'll get certain birds feeding on the nectar
Musk lorikeet

or perhaps a rainbow lorikeet
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Doesn't this look tasty?

Bigma, in the back yard... heavily cropped, but full sized pic of a robin and it's meal.



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How about a new sport. My son and I went to hit some golf balls tonight. Trying to catch the moment of impact. close
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And the hits just keep on coming ....

Kevin - nice macro of the tiger lilly very sharp. Man and son fishing is a classic as well. Cool shot of the nose.

pop4 - very cool shot of salt crystals. Nice background.

Georg - Love the boat. And gulls are the same world wide. They know when there is food around.

xjjohonno - cute a nice play on how much is that doggies in the shopping cart. And the Musk lorikeet is such a colorful species.

Rick - umm umm good if you are a bird. Shot looks sharp. Well done.

Scot - good captures on the range - quite an unorthodox style the young lad has - but hey if the shot is straight and true go with it. I play a lot of slow pitch and find that really interferes with my golf swing but then again I am an old dog and tought to learn new tricks haha.
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At the Track

Went out to Eastern Creek yesterday.

Fought with glare, a cheap CPL that killed focus and rubbed shoulders with some sort of god (pictured below).

Also got told (by some other guy) that setting up a tripod and a camera with MF fixed on the corner and taking shots with a remote cable was "doing things the hard way". Even though I can chat to friends and fire off shots without having to squint through a viewfinder. On top of that every shot is a keeper unless the subject decided to run wide and put themselves out of frame.



Made some nice Panos out of a couple of shots. Top one definitely works, but the bottom one, only the rider I was actively tracking is sharp. Not sure if this is good or bad. Just wish I got all the foreground riders sharp because I love the spacing.




And one wide angle with a (dirty) $7 CPL possibly causing more harm than good.




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Went to a b-day party today:



and fooling around with my macro this afternoon:

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QuoteOriginally posted by daacon Quote
Had my son's high school graduation last night .. a little over 400 grads. The lighting was terrible, the crowds huge but it was fun none the less.
This is a picture from a graduation ceremony in an American school in Europe. Pentax K200D SMCP-M 100./2.8 ISO 800
Mixed lighting posed numerous problems of white balance addressed to extent possible in ACR. The black dresses were showing up as brown with light brown highlights.
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Its Americade time in Lake George, NY again. I found the 10-17 was a great lens for getting shots of the bikes on the crowded streets. The third shot was a pair of his and hers custom choppers I caught cruising by after dark. It was a handheld snapshot with the kit lens but came out decent enough. SR saves the day again!

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Couple of macros from this morning. I've got focusing rails on order. Can't wait till they show up. I think it's a good way to end an excellent week. Good work everyone!!!



1. Small spider sitting on a flower. Handheld.



2. Inner guts of a flower. Handheld again.

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Well this weeks POTW has come to a close. And a great week it was with 116 posts. Great stuff and lets make next weeks thread even better.

You can see the new one here.
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