Picture of the week #88 Nov 8 - Nov 22 2009
So it's time to see your stuff from last week and this upcoming week.

Welcome to POTW #87 and counting. Nice stuff last week posted here Picture of the week #87 Nov 1 - Nov 15 2009

Again same rules and really other than time frames there are no rules

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 11/8//2009 to Sunday - Sunday 11/22/2009. Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes.


Previous hosts: (each one is a hotlink to that POTW thread to look past at the previous 86 weeks. Peter started the links, I know it had to be a lot of editing!!


1 Peter Zack, 2Eaglerapids 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 dadipentax, 55 David Whiteley, 56 planedriver, 57 daacon,58 Bramela, 59 daacon, 60 gawan, 61 virgilr, 62 daacon, 63 RickL, 64 Peter Zack, 65 Peter Zack, 66 Causey 67 daacon, 68 Bramela, 69 georgeweb, 70 daacon, 71 seacapt, 72 daacon, 73 AOski, 74 Rense 75 eccs19, 76 daacon, 77 xs400, 78 daacon, 79 Bramela, 80 borno, 81 legacyb4, 82 daacon, 83 gawan, 84 Rense, 85 Peter Zack, 86 davef, 87 davef, 88 xjjohnno

[tmacdon]

Judging by the chairs, you just missed the party!

[CReid]

My latest macro project: the life of a soap bubble!!!


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#1. A perfect mix of water and glycerine on the bubbles surface. The swirl is caused by the air current made by turning the focussing ring!
#2. The layers start to get more turbulent and start seperating out
#3. The glycerine and water are now starting to come out of solution, you get these amazing looking blobs moving towards the bottom of the bubble
#4. The blobs settle at the very base of the bubble, the black is my background card seen through the now transparent bubble. Time to move my lens as the bubble will shortly burst!

Enjoy

Carl

[dadipentak]

Grossinger's? Wow, I was never there but it was legendary!

[Rense]

Carl, those shots are amazing. Such vibrant colours and unexpected forms!!
You owe us your setup!

[foster]

Grossinger's? Wow, I was never there but it was legendary!

The place even had its own post office and air strip at one point.

[Scottnorwo]

Daughter's team made my life hard. They made it within 3 games of the state title in the state tournement. Still learning how to deal with poor to average lighted fields, but here are some shots.

the fight for the ball








My daughter coming off the field for the last time in her high school varsity career


Also had my first sales from the sports photography this weekend. Yeah!!

[seacapt]

A rather inglorious end to the end of Fall Baseball season for us here. Last weekend my oldest son's Babe Ruth League team lost in a single ellimination tournament 25-1 (really out classed by an older team). This week although the weather was beautiful the field was deemed too wet for safe play due to the 5 days of rain prior so the 2 home Little League teams wont get to battle it out.
Well the big one is currently on the middle school soccer team and just made the wrestling team for a Winter sport , Fall fishing is in full swing and it's finally cooling off enough to go hunting without being eaten alive by mosquitoes but I'm gonna miss watching my boys play baseball for a few months.
Gee I dragged this camera down to the field , what can I take pictures of?

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Last edited by seacapt; 12-13-2009 at 12:36 PM.

[Sunniebgi]

That is Grossinger's Resort in Liberty, NY.

It has stood empty since 1986.

Well I did a search on the Borshet Belt Hotels and this did come up, so wondered if this was it.

it really is a shame .. I loved those hotels.. never went to one, but I'm guessing they would have been a great place to take some interesting pictures.

[daacon]

While it is always Great not so white now - it's pretty rare we can get into late Novemeber with absolutley no snow and today hit a high here of 17C (62F for you imperial people haha) ! Ummm maybe there is something to this Global Warming

Middle of our street just a short sleve shirt on ... amazing ....

Click on image for larger view

[causey]

I'm rediscovering the pleasure of looking at random and beautiful pics in the POTW thread. some are stunning (like the water mini-series, and not only). thanks everybody for sharing. I took these two with a recently acquired Sigma mini-wide II MC--in the process of testing it, but so far I like the lens a lot.

[xjjohnno]

A superb collection of pictures being posted here, keep up the good work folks.

[smf]

PentaxK100D, SMCPentax 1:4/100 macro, ISO 400, center-weighted averaging, 1/15, aperture priority, aperture not recorded, tripod, light coming through window in sliding glass door of our dining room; cropped in iPhoto.

[photolady95]

Some really nice shots this week!!

Wish I could have gotten some in too, but I've been too sick to get out and take any.

[tpeace]

I've been playing around with slow shutter speeds...

Here's a self port. taken in Amsterdam last week...

[xjjohnno]

Superb pictures for this week's POTW. I'd like to hand over the reins to Bramela for Picture of the Week 89 which can be found here.
Picture of the week #88 Nov 8 - Nov 22 2009