Potw for Oct 26th to Nov 1

Well it's Sunday morning here and everyone must been sleeping in after the late Phillies game. I checked and

double checked to see if there was a POTW thread. Not yet so here goes!

Time to get putting those pictures on the net for this week.

Here's a couple with a fall and/or Halloween theme to get us

kicked off. More to come later today.

 

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Some of my photograhic Pentax moments this week included recording a live performance of a puppet theater in low

light with the superb SMC Takmar 85mm F 1.8 om the K10D after taking closeups with the Tamron 90mm macro for

advertising the winter theater before. I can soon show you some closeup photos. A mint SMC Takumar 28mm F 3.5

with hood was my buy of the week and influenced my POW selection. Since we already have a Pentax "limited" and

"star" prime lenses series, I would call my SMC Takumars the "unlimited" ones!<div></div>

gravel industries<div></div>

Remembering "Vinci", the artists dog<div></div>

The autumn theme<div></div>

I have acouple from recent hikes<div></div>

After hiking up over The "Three Bothers", there is a dark forest just before you climb up Big Slide Mt, an Adirondack High Peak. It was cold, dark, and a bit spooky.

 

All of a sudden this beam of light brightened the trail.<div></div>

Peter - Wow! Those Blue Jay shots are amazing. Outstanding captures. No small accomplishment capturing moments like that. Great detail - nice and sharp. Kudos. BTW - what lens did you use? 300mm?

 

Markus - cool fall shots. I like "Vinci" shot best just because of how well the subject is framed but all 4 images are superbly captured.

 

Here are a few from me. The first 2 are with the Sigma 50-500 and the second 2 are with the DA 50-200. I've been experimenting with booth zooms.<div></div>

Here's another Bigma shot...<div></div>

Many of the Adirondack Mts have 'Summit Markers' on the summit.

 

In the late 19th Century, thestate of New York hired a surveyor by the name of Verplank Colvin to survey and climb these mountains. Some of these mountains aren't so easy with trails so it was no small feat breaking trail on them back then.

 

Anyways, I don't believe I have seen a summit marker quite like this one yet.

 

Big Slide, 1896<div></div>

Bob - Awesome shot. A real interesting find.

 

Here's the other 2 shots I was going to post...<div></div>

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Bob - that black and white waterfall is spectacular. Nicely done.

I haven't done much shooting this week but kinda like this one, shot through the screen door to the porch.<div></div>

Thanks Duane, Yes that jay was captured with the FA*300 f4.5. One sharp lens that renders as good as any lens I've used. My wife and I were out to a local farm getting pumpkins for Halloween. Of course I always have at least one camera and a bag of lenses. God love her, she will wait and supports my "Hun, just wait a minute (a total lie and a minute will never do) for me to capture this".

 

These Blue Jays were feeding on the corn in a little display. One was watching out for the other one that was getting a belly full of corn.

 

Markus, The shots look very good and I'm wondering what you think of the 28/3.5 vs a Limited? I'm slowly building a Tak primes collection and the wider ones are now on the list. The last shot is fun, great stuff!

 

Cool Bob. I've seen a lot of these but never one like this. You and Justin need to have a meet up.

 

Duane, the "shit hawk" looks great. You have a fine copy of the Bigma. Not all 50-500mm's are the same (I've had 2 new ones and the second was not so good). The colour and light in the fall shots is excellent.

 

That's interesting Dave. Well used ball. The screen door gives a very soft look to the shot.

I did not see this thread and opened another <a href="http://www.photo.net/pentax-camera-

forum/00RHu8"><b>POW for 10/26/2008</b></a>. We need edit feature to delete/edit threads.

Anyway, as I stated on another thread, I love occasional 2 POW for a change

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First two with <a href="http://techtheman.blogspot.com/2008/09/vivitar-series-1-70-210mm-f35-tokina-

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And I helped my older boy's school with Pumpkin Patch and photos<br>

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with <a href="http://techtheman.blogspot.com/2008/02/tamron-28-75-f28-di-ii-macro-test-shots.html"><b>Tamron 28-

75 f/2.8</b></a> <br>

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Thank you!<br>

Hin

This pretty much sums up my week. Bogan is seven months old and we're sort of in the K9 equivalent of the rebellious teen years. Let's just say we're having boundary issues.

 

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<p>Great pics everyone!

Bob, those BW's are great and Duane, I love the lighting in Fall Grass.

I haven't shot much recently, but here's a couple shots from last month.</p>

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So far, I especially like the kids pictures this week.

My photo was taken on the trail somewhere along the highway in Wisconsin... Interstate 39/90, I think. Possibly Interstate 90/94. <p>

After so many miles on interstates, things seem to run together. That's why I prefer the two lanes.<div></div>

A great start. I'll try to digest all these a bit later.

 

I got a chance yesterday to start to test my newly repaired K10D. These used a Tamron 28-75.<div></div>

Accidental but amusing.<div></div>

Another way to recycle.<div></div>

Here's one from a wedding I shot a couple weeks ago and have been working to finish processing this week. I asked

them (the brides maids and groomsmen) to imagine themselves a character from the movie "Pulp Fiction" and,,,

 

The bride and groom love it. It's also one of my favotite from the day.<div></div>

Here ya go, no time to comment now, up late for World Series and ended up sleeping in. Off for a hike, not

expecting anything photographic to come of it, but maybe I can do something neat with the fire tower!!

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I'll post a fall image of Jordan,17,Native American...We spent the day Shooting around the fall colors in the mountains for her portfolio...We shot back to back days wed and thursday...This was one of the best images...But then shooting with Jordan she does'nt take a bad picture as shes a professional level model....<div></div>