Photo Of The Week - July 13th

ﾡHola de México! (more to come from this trip when i return, but here's one for now on one of the few nights i'll actually have my macbook fired up).<div></div>

Here is another Sunset Shot<div></div>

Here is a picture of the clouds before the sunset<div></div>

wow. pnet slaughtered the spanish text there... lemme try again: �Hola de Mexico!

Here are a couple of an old barn I found. this has real potential for a return trip.<div></div>

Another shot of the barn<div></div>

Sorry Gang, it appears that I sharpend them twice in photoshop. I changed sizes and sharpend each time I changed. They really do look better than posted.

Well Michael, I think the barn shots look pretty good to me! I love old barns, so they caught my eye right away!

 

Roger, so happy to see Bogan! How did he like the boat! Sorry to hear about the camera...keeping a positive thought for you in regards to your news from Pentax!

Duane: Thanks for the comments! I took over 300 shots at the pow-wow, and kept over 50% (clearly, I think too highly of my skills...). I saw some amazing sights, and it was torture to limit my postings for the POW(-wow?) thread.

 

Abe

Wow so many great shots!

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I thought I had a decent shot of my friend and her dog, but the dof made Sadie the dog look a little demonized :-D

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A few others in case you want to decide if I should have posted them instead... :-)

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Roger,

 

not sure what your homeowners or renters policy covers, and not sure what your credit card covers but the camea might be insured in some way.

 

I'd check with both and see if it's worth filing a claim. With the credit card you probably won't have a deductible, with the homeowners you probably will making the value you get probably not much. Although if they do replacement value, with the K10D out of production they'd probably have to give you over $1000 + the lens, so maybe it would be worth it even with a $500 deductible.

Really sorry about your camera Roger--ouch! I'll take barn 1, Michael. Your friend is certainly worthy of an office chair, Todd, and your other friend with the clock is just a killer shot.

Thanks Dave! The two friends you mentioned are actually maritally related.. Would she still get the job?

 

I meant to write condolences to Roger on the sunken camera earlier but was in a rush. Good ideas there Justin. We would all sure like to see some pain relief for Roger.

Wow, I had forgot to hit the ole notify me button. It is great to see this many folks with such quality shots...

To hard to pick a favorite, but Justins fireworks shot needs to be framed and stuck in the wall at the White House...Amazing image...

Geesh Todd! All of them are great. Those flowers really pop.

Where to start :-) ? I guess with condolences to Roger.. You can always replace a camera.. and you never know, if

you can get an insurance claim, it might work out for you to get a K20d. Bogan is looking very cute and has that

look.. "Dude, you sure you want to take that stuff out in the boat?"<br>

Markus love the instruments.. always beautiful work your photos <br> Robert, those are great macros.. you need to

buy one or borrow this one permanently! 1 and 3 awesome!!! <br> Dave, the resting dragonfly is really pretty. Do you

hypnotise them first so they sit still? <br> Ian, Great portraits.. something that I do badly, so I'm always envious :-)

<br> Bruce, we had already posted a food item for the week.. just kidding :-) Nice vase.. glad you nailed it finally

<br> Gary those rugrats are cute, but office furniture populated by assistants is the way to go if I am reading this

forum right... I'll add my vote as well to the latter :-) <br> Abe, Interesting photos.. all good, love the grin on Lewis'

face.. <br> Mis, Valiant effort.. but I am not sure how many chairs you would sell with your assistants in them..

pretty impressive cellist photos! <br> Nick, those lake photos are great.. so serene and relaxing. <br> Dave R, more

food yum! those cherries look great. <br> Alisa, that's so sweet of you.. anytime you swing by Phoenix let me

know.. always happy to see fellow photographers. And I think they came out great, iso notwithstanding. <br>

Duane, I love the first three shots.. the hare is in such a beautiful setting.<br> Michael, those clouds sure make that

a great sunset.. The old barn is pretty. <br> Adam, did you get enough to drink? Would not want you getting

dehydrated in that hot sun! <br> Todd, that's a great set of pictures.. especially like the white roses.. your friend with

the clock is superb.. and so is the young lady and the demonic dog :-) lol.

well, i'll join in with Haig at posting the obligatory food pics.<div></div>

ditto Javier's remark. I eyeballed a bunch of fireworks shots on July 5th, and Justins photo takes the cake.. <|8-D

Guys thanks for the kind words regarding my dead k10d. I really can't blame anyone but myself. Should not have taken it after I got paired with a inexperienced person in a canoe. But I've taken an slr many a time in a kayak and thought the dry bag was better sealed. Oh well stuff can be replaced, good suggestions on the home owners insurance, but my deductible is too high to warrant a claim for this one. I have a $1K deductible and paid about $600 for the k10d and $430 for the 18-250. I don't think my credit card will help, but will look into it.

 

I'm going to ship both camera and lens off to Pentax with receipts for about $7K of Pentax gear purchased in the last year along with a nice letter asking if they will consider a warranty or partial warranty repair for a new loyal Pentaxian who is dedicated to the system. Hey it can't hurt. The 18-250 should not be that big of a deal, but I've no idea what a redo on a k10d costs. If it's more than about $350 or $400 I probably won't fix it.

 

On the lighter side I seem to have my posting film canister back again... :)

Roger, A nice letter like that will go a long way. I did that with a Sigma Lens that was way out of warranty and when I explained to sigma that I am good loyal customer who has spent an years worth of tuition at USC with them, they took care of my lens under warranty..

It's interesting to begin to be able to recognise some people's styles... Will be interesting to see how they develop, too...

 

Justin, you've clearly got this picture taking lark sorted, mate... Impressive stuff, and a damn good advertisement for Pentax picture quality, too. Pentax should be paying you for your efforts on here, methinks... I really like the moody colours and curls of Dave's leaf... Nice one. And Todd's demonized dog is appealingly disturbing...

 

I'm not so keen on Maria's chair pics, TBH, but neither is she it seems, so OK, I don't feel so bad about it... :) Anyway, we all know these POW shots aren't always representative of people's best pics, and I'd much rather see people post photos than not... The more we post, the more we learn, I think, even if we post stuff that we're not even all that keen on ourselves.

 

Personally, I find it quite difficult to judge other people's pics because we're all at different stages in our photographic development, and often have very different tastes... Some of these pics remind me of my own stuff from a couple of years ago, when I began re-learning with digital. I'm not sure if my stuff is any better now, but I'm beginning to learn what I want to do - not just how to - and that's been a big step for me.

 

Anyway, cheers, and keep snapping.

Perfect lighting conditions for closeups (cloudy bright) on my day off yesterday.

 

 

 

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K10D / Tamron AF70-300mm Di

Damn Rod...Javier (and son) might have met their match for dragon fly shots!! Nice work!!