Welcome to 116th edition of the Pentax Forum's Picture of the Week! This edition covers photos taken between 30 May and 13 June 2010.

Thanks to Tamia for hosting last week (sorry Tamia, just found my error here)..

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!

Yes, I've borrowed Tamia's text as it still fits. Enjoy the week.


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 30 May 2010 to Sunday 13 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, 115 Tamia

[JeffJS]

Taken June 2, 2010

K7, DA12-24, f4 at minimum focus distance. The wind was cooperative as usual () but I still think I managed to get a half decent shot. It isn't one of my sharper photos but I really like the way it kind of pops off of my screen.



Here is one from the 43mm Limited

[eccs19]

A couple from myself.

[Peter Zack]

Thanks for hosting Jeff. Nice start to the week.

Here's a few from me taken between rain drops. Can anyone tell me why it's sunny all week and rains on Friday night till Monday morning?

Apple blossoms. A wild tree just on the edge of a forest


Typical PEI view


The lupins (is that how you spell the name) are just getting started.

Moo!

What really bugs me is I saw a Kingfisher and tried to gently raise the camera to capture him and he flew off. He was in the perfect spot, nice and close blah blah and I blew it.

[bbluesman]

Some from photowalk including forum member Darren Melrose near and at TungHai University, Taichung, Taiwan.








Actually used the Rikenon 50mm 2 for this. Darren helped me out on soem ninja settings info for my ist DL

[Tamia]

Great shots all, and thanks for hosting, Jeff.

Here are a couple from this wet weekend...

Snail Shell & Leaf




Storm Clouds

[casil403]

Wow great start gang....here's mine:
I took this at the new fountains and reno'd park across the road from my place...they put on quite a cool little light show at night:

[scatron]

Thanks for hosting Jeff.

I haven't posted in POTW for some time - not getting anything uploaded before the two-week window passes.

But here's some recent stuff. I recently acquired a DA 10-17mm fisheye and have had fun getting used to it.

Memorial Day weekend landed us in Rocky Mountain National Park and I had to decide what to bring. I didn't want to be changing lenses while hiking or sightseeing, so I decided to mount the fish-eye on the K100D and a DA 18-250 on the K20D.

1. From a hike around Lily Lake (K100D DA 10-17mm).
The two peaks are Longs Peak and Mt. Meeker:


2. Photographers in action (K100D DA 10-17mm).
That's my wife with the K20D and DA 18-250 and my brother with some Sony P&S.


3. The result (photo my wife took with the K20D and DA 18-250):


4. Arm-length portrait (K100D DA 10-17mm):



5. Juvenile big-horn sheep (K20D and DA 18-250) :

[xs400]

Some of the generators inside Hoover Dam.
K20 + DA 16-45mm iso 800, f/4.5, 1/15, hand held

[Clou]

Common Merganser: Mother with two kids


Common Merganser: I did not understand what he/she was yelling at me


Another fountain to play with


Three colors


Young swans

[stevebrot]

Young swans

Love the cygnets! The mergansers are cute too!

Steve

[bbluesman]

A few from family walk on TongHai University campus on Sun.

Touch of orange


Step by Step


Cluster bomb

[Bramela]

I ventured out on a rather wet and wild weekend. The seas were at their worst, so braved the elements to come up with these.
No the camera etc did not get drenched.

[casil403]

A couple from yesterday:
Celtic cross and incoming storm clouds:


One of my favorite public art sculptures in Calgary...I call it waiting for Icarus..have no idea what it is really called...lol!

[reeftool]

Some bugs and birds from this past weekend.