POTW 9/5/2010

[dshombert]

<p>Kicking things off again with a shot from a couple of years ago. I'd forgotten about this until I stumbled over it in my files. I still like it. Taken in Rehoboth Beach, DE, with my K10D & 21/3.2</p><div></div>

[jgredline]

<p>Dave, I love generational pictures. I love pictures that show life like that and this one is wonderful.</p>

[markus maurer]

<p>I started a weekly photo newsletter massmail yesterday mainly for a 3 years old girl of one of my close friends about my daily "adventures". I took the ferry over lake Zurich for some computer work at a clients house and took the Super Takumar 35mm F2 and the SMC Takumar 85mm with me for a 2 prime lens setup. Passed a harvest market with an interesting exhibition about the old times and met a friendly and decorative dog later :-)</p><div></div>

[markus maurer]

<p>Water bowl and soap anno domini</p><div></div>

[markus maurer]

<p>Portrait of a dog</p><div></div>

[markus maurer]

<p>Ferry over lake Zurich after work</p><div></div>

[jgredline]

<p><strong>Awe, love!</strong><br>

<a href="http://s404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Snap%20shots%202/?action=view&current=IMG_8698.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Snap%20shots%202/IMG_8698.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>

[jgredline]

<p><strong>The real Hollywood</strong><br>

<a href="http://s404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Snap%20shots%202/?action=view&current=IMG_8662.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Snap%20shots%202/IMG_8662.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>

[jgredline]

<p><strong>Light</strong><br>

<a href="http://s404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Snap%20shots%202/?action=view&current=IMG_8839BW.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Snap%20shots%202/IMG_8839BW.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>

[markus maurer]

<p>Show the exclusive Canon EOS forum what Hollywood insights they miss Javier :-)</p>

[dorus]

<p>very nice (and impressive) streetwork, Javier. And yes, very realistic too, I'm afraid...<br>

Contrary, I live in dreamland ...ehr... teletubbyland<br>

<img src="http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/dorus/teletubbies.jpg" alt="" width="639" height="317" /><br>

Lens Focal Length: 21,00 mm ()Shutter Speed: 1/350 secF-Number: F8,0ISO: 400<br>

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and this is my view when I take the bicycle to work (when the sun is out) :<br>

<img src="http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/dorus/IMGP3219.jpg?t=1283679443" alt="" width="639" height="428" /><br>

Lens Focal Length: 18,00 mm ()Shutter Speed: 1/250 secF-Number: F4,0ISO: 400<br>

and some pimping<br>

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while moving house, my eye caught this shadow of the fountain of life on the wall :<br>

<img src="http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/dorus/fountainoflife.jpg?t=1283679707" alt="" width="639" height="474" /><br>

Lens Focal Length: 21,00 mm ()Shutter Speed: 1/90 secF-Number: F4,5ISO: 200</p>

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[bob-c]

<p>Nice kickoff, Dave. Javier, I like the third shot a lot. Dorus, no matter where you are the images are always spectacular. Markus, I like the lake shot. </p><div></div>

[bob_marz]

<p><strong>K10D in RMNP Wild Blue Columbine </strong><a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/RMNP%207-2-2010/?action=view&current=WildBlueColumbine.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/RMNP%207-2-2010/WildBlueColumbine.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <strong>Trail to Ouzel Lake </strong>Indian Paintbrush take advantage of the wildfire of 1978 and provide foreground for the Colorado landscape along the trail. Nature healing itself. <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/RMNP%207-2-2010/?action=view&current=TrailtoOuzelLake-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/RMNP%207-2-2010/TrailtoOuzelLake-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <strong>Ouzel Lake</strong> Colorado almost always windy. So I used the marshy smooth area for the mountain/clouds reflections instead of the blown out lake. <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/RMNP%207-2-2010/?action=view&current=OuzelLake.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/RMNP%207-2-2010/OuzelLake.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>

[ukhov]

<p>Happy and effulgent holiday to you -populous Pentaxians !</p>

[ukhov]

<p>Happy and effulgent holiday to you -populous Pentaxians !</p><div></div>

[ukhov]

<p>American Goldfinch</p><div></div>

[ukhov]

<p>SQ.Frame Duck</p><div></div>

[ukhov]

<p>bugs and other...</p><div></div>

[david_nunn1]

<p>I recently bought the Sigma 105mm DG Macro lens and used it over the Bank Holiday weekend at my parents house in West Wales. Firstly a Small Tortoiseshell.<br>

<img src="http://gallery.me.com/cringeruk/100174/IMGP8270/web.jpg?ver=12836767150001" alt="" width="650" height="433" /></p>

[david_nunn1]

<p>Secondly another Small Tortoiseshell with a Red Admiral behind it.<br>

<img src="http://gallery.me.com/cringeruk/100174/IMGP8325/web.jpg?ver=12836767610001" alt="" width="648" height="431" /></p>

[david_nunn1]

<p>Thirdly it is harvest time in Britain. This will be baled up and used to feed the cattle and sheep over the winter.<br>

<img src="http://gallery.me.com/cringeruk/100174/IMGP8297/web.jpg?ver=12836767920001" alt="" width="649" height="434" /></p>

[hinman]

<p><strong>#1 American Friend On ChopSticks </strong><br>

A wonderful and extremely bright colleague of mine always enjoy Chinese food. I thought of my younger boy who is also left handed. I am right handed and I have a very difficult time in showing my son how to use chopsticks on left hand. <br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4949318789_e941e00b0d_z.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="640" /><br>

Pentax K20D and Pentax FA 77mm f/1.8 limited</p>

[hinman]

<p><strong>#2 Yashica Mat-124g In Action</strong></p>

<p>I shot through the 1st roll with Fuji Pro 400 color on a farewell party. It is way cooler than I thought on the experience. It works charmingly on focusing and metering. The crank is absolutely annoyingly funny. The hardest time is actually in the first time loading the film. Once I find which spool is the taking spool, things become instantaneously joy with confidence. Will see the 1st roll on Tuesday. I try hard not to have unrealistic expectations.</p>

<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4955103545_1980e8a188_z.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="640" /><br>

<br /> shot with Pentax K20D and DA* 50-135mm f/2.8 -- my best zoom from Pentax for events, portraits, and candid.</p>

[hinman]

<p><strong>#3 Seafood Pan Fried Noodle</strong></p>

<p>It is Hin's joy in making other people hungry and so I thought I can try it on POW. <br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4949319555_672d3def74_z.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="640" /><br>

shot with Pentax K20D and Pentax DA 15mm f/4.0 limited</p>

[frank_b._baiamonte]

<p>All those shots from Zurich that Markus has been posting got me thinking of Europe, and how much I miss visiting there. I went back and dug out a few shots taken with my Pentax MX and either an M 50 f/1.7 or an M 200 f/4.0, mostly on Ektachrome. These were "scanned" with a K20D and DA35 Macro.</p>

<p>Taken in Venice in the winter of 1980.<br>

<img src="http://frankbaiamonte.smugmug.com/Travel/Europe-1979-2000-Slide-Scans/FB015618/677893009_FZUJr-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>This next one was taken out the window of a train somewhere in central Sicily in June of 1980.<br>

<img src="http://frankbaiamonte.smugmug.com/Travel/Europe-1979-2000-Slide-Scans/FB015587/677385348_pyDoL-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>San Gimignano, sometime in 1979, from the top of another even taller tower.<br>

<img src="http://frankbaiamonte.smugmug.com/Travel/Europe-1979-2000-Slide-Scans/FB015615/677891856_GZb4o-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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