Welcome to 115th edition of the Pentax Forum's Picture of the Week! This edition covers photos taken between 23 May and 6 June 2010.

Thanks to Lisa (casil403) for hosting last week, and for passing the baton to me this time. This was her first time as host of POTW, so tip her a nod for her great job.

POTW is a great place to show what you're shooting day-to-day with your Pentax cameras. It gives us all a chance to virtually visit with one another, to get a glimpse of what it's like where others live and where they've been, and to extend the same invitation to others to share what we've been seeing.

Summer is officially launched here in the northern hemisphere, but our southern hemisphere counterparts are heading into their winter. It's a good time to compare the shoulder seasons from each part of the globe. So take your camera out and shoot some photos to share round with fellow Pentaxians!

Again same rules as before:

1) No theme, just post your favourite pix.

2) Let's keep it to under 6 images per post just so the thread doesn't get too big each week.

3) Any Pentax camera or Samsung SLR is fine, whether it's film, P&S, or DSLR.

4) Date: Sunday 23 May 2010 to Sunday 6 June 2010. Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes. Old shots with a new look from post-processing during the open time period are also welcome.

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 Noon EDT and 5PM EDT on Sunday. If the thread doesn't start, please contact Peter Zack, Moderator via PM.


Ready? Great! Shoot and post!

Previous hosts: Each one is a hotlink to that POTW thread to look past at the previous 112 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, 98 planedriver, 99 xs400, 100 Peter Zack, 101 Netuser 102 Photolady, 103 Tamia,
104 Irishwhite, 105 Ramseybuckeye, 106 xjjohnno, 107 Bumbibop, 108 JeffJS, 109 Tpeace, 110 Nomad, 111 Photolady, 112 rparmar, 113 Peter Zack, 114 casil403,

[Tamia]

Here are a few photos to get the ball rolling...

Refreshing




A New Generation (frog spawn)




Stern Occupant




Escape

[casil403]

Tamia...thanks for hosting this week and thanks for the Kudos...I'm glad I did okay...it was really fun.
The frog spawn photo is freaking awesome...I looked at it awhile in amazement!
So I am trying shots in colour and BW these days:

[casil403]

This thread is now open everybody...post your images in here!

[casil403]

Another one from my rainy/snowy day walk:

[JeffJS]

Sorry but you're going to have to suffer through a few more of my 2010 Rose shots (Year, 2010, not 2010 pictures)..









From the IR K20d (A50 f2.8 Macro)

[Nomad]

Here are a few from today. Memorial Day weekend here so I went across the street from our home and visited some of our Revolutionary War veterans.

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[Fries]

A smaller crop of a photo I already posted in a series on this forum. This is a nesting ground for these gulls.

[jmschrei]

This is photo I took earlier last week but had not processed until today. I decided to spend the dreary wet weekend indoors but I am hoping for a good photo week ahead. I plan to get out to Banff, rain, snow or shine and my daughter graduates on Friday. I just hope that my having a week off work has not jinxed the weather!

-Joe

[casil403]

HEY!




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[Peter Zack]

2 from today
First a little experiment with an stacked ND4 and ND8 on the Tamron 28-75mm
the second is Cavendish beach near Anne of Green Gables Prince Edward Island.

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[Nomad]

Our moon is blood red tonight because of some fires a couple hundred miles away in Quebec.

[xjjohnno]

Tamia thanks for hosting this week's POTW, looks like it's off to a flier of a start.
Some pics from around the CBD.
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[Tamia]

WOW, I can almost smell the perfume on the air from all the flowers.

Lisa, nice sharp images, and the b&w translations are nicely done. Good range of tone. I can't figure out what the red bud is in msg #5. And I absolutely love the ground squirrel (or is she a prairie dog?) photo (#10). She's definitely got something on her mind.

Jeff, I can see why you enjoy photographing roses. These are excellently rendered. I love the luminous nature of some of those blooms, and the ghostly IR bloom is fascinating and beautiful.

Nomad, topical and sobering photos of the grave sites. Your purple flowers are sharp and well captured. Are they lupines? The fiery moon is spectacular. Unfortunately so. I can smell the smoke from Quebec as I write at my desk here in northern New York, and it's making my eyes sting. I hate to think what the conflagration will mean for all the wildlife in those woods.

Fries, charming photo of the gulls. The one on the right seems bored.

Joe (jmschrei), those are unusual blooms to me. What are they? Beautiful color. Looking forward to seeing photos from Banff!

Peter, those stacked filters work. Nifty zoom effect in the first photo, and the colors of the Jurassic landforms, sea, and sky are great.

Xjjohnno, I really like your street scenes from Down Under. Cool capture of the skateboarder and his observer in the second photo. The photo of ancient armor and of the toys display have a surreal quality to them.

[Tamia]

Here are a few from yesterday's hike under heavily overcast skies.

Pothole & Grindstones Potholes along a river are ground into bedrock by sand, pebbles, and cobbles. More about them here.




Brooding Clouds These are cross-posted with "Post Your Photos" but thought folks visiting here would like to see them.