Welcome to this 97th edition of the PotW. Start is a little early, but since Iris invited me to host, and I can find some time now, I thought this would be okay.

We've seen a great 96th version, thanks to Iris as hostess. She invited all new members of this forum in the Welcome section. I'm planning to do the same this week. Iris, thanks for hosting, you did a great job! And thanks for asking me to host this weeks PotW!

Picture of the Week 97: January 10, 2010 to January 24, 2010.
Let's try to get more posts this week than last week. I would say a hundred is a nice number.
A special welcome to all new members: feel free to post your shots from this week and last week!

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 Jan 10 2010 to Sunday Jan 24 2010. Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes.
5) The current host will appoint the new host as an invitation via PM. If possible, the new thread will be linked to the previous one and the new thread will start between 12:00EST and 5PM EST on the Sunday. If the thread doesn't start, please contact Peter Zack, Moderator.


Previous hosts: Each one is a hotlink to that POTW thread to look past at the previous 94 weeks.
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 89 Bramela , 90 Peter Zack, 91 daacon, 92 stevebrot ,93 reeftool, 94 jezza323, 95 oldschool, 96 Iris, 97 Rense,

[Blaze]

Alex - don't pick favourites, post them all Nice diversity, I like them. And you did a nice job in the B&W conversion!!

Imagined myself uploading over 1K pics to the forum

[Rense]

Imagined myself uploading over 1K pics to the forum

haha, that would be great... soon nobody would notice anymore, I guess...

[seacapt]

Rense thanks for hosting and thanks for the comments in last week's POW. Nothing special here ,just a couple play shots to contribute.

[Ash]

I love the one of the two young ladies! Your daughter and a friend, I suppose?

Indeed, best friends.

[Nomad]

Kills me to see the beautiful flower pictures as we trudge through a long Maine winter.....even our snowmen are depressed

[jezza323]

well i thank you for posting the ice and snow shots, its bloody hot here today!

forecast is for 36 C (97 F according to google)

[Scottnorwo]

Have not posted in quite a while. some shots of my actress daughter and what I found during a walk in the woods

[Scottnorwo]

Rense thanks for hosting

jezza323 --love the shot of the horse
borno --wish that was a winter shot where I live. looks warm
xs400 --the color is wonderful
legacyb4 --a beautiful vista
planedriver --boats and ice work well in photography
Rense -- the vivitar does fine work
daacon --BW log house is fabulous. glad to hear you are feeling better
Ash --two fun loving children. I am envious of the blue skies
Blaze --three great shots. like the night city scape
seacapt-- i can feel the warmth peeking at the sun rise
Nomad -- I feel your pain. Prop up that snow man he has at least two more months of service ahead

[borno]

Tom - great shot, is that one of those old 'rader boats' (don't know the exact English term )? Nice to see you here again! Feel welcome to post more !

Thanks Rense, I'm not sure what the boat is exactly, in the shot. It is some kind of replica paddlewheel boat. They take groups around sometimes for sightseeing (more like drinking). I miss posting in POTW but while I usually have my pentax with me ,I have been using my canon alot because I got a new lens for it recently. Unfortunately my 40d just got the dreaded ERR99 so I will have to send it in and break out the only long lens I have left for my pentax, the tamron adaptall 80-200mm f2.8 (wish I could have kept the DA300mm)

[borno]

borno --wish that was a winter shot where I live. looks warm

Ha! we did get a break and alot of the ice melted last week, But it has been pretty brutal here in maryland for us. I really would love to move south, but have to wait for a few more years.

[Scottnorwo]

Ha! we did get a break and alot of the ice melted last week, But it has been pretty brutal here in maryland for us. I really would love to move south, but have to wait for a few more years.

up here in western NY Maryland weather is just balmy, though we are getting a break right now, temps in the mid 30's F.

[Ash]

Got a couple other backyard captures with the mirror lens at ISO 1600:

[xs400]

There's no snow where I live, and my kids are grown and in college, so I go for a lot of walks near my home. Here is where I walked today. We've had rain lately, so the trail was a little muddy.

[Blaze]

Kills me to see the beautiful flower pictures as we trudge through a long Maine winter.....even our snowmen are depressed

Man, I haven't seen snow for 11 years, and the strong sun here means shooting with 12-o-clock ugly light (save for dawns/dusks) for the most part of the day.
Just pack the snowman and mail it over here!!!

[ramseybuckeye]

I've recently acquired some M42s amd just yesterday got an Asahi Pentax adapter to try them on my K20D. Hopefully tomorrow the fog will lft.
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