Food Festival at Barry

Headed down to Barry Island today for some food and to grab some images. Only stayed an hour as the car park here is £1 for the first hour and then a flat rate of £6 thereafter! On the way down the heavens opened, wipers were on double speed as the rain that fell in large blobs like small water balloons were relentless and then the hail, thunder and lightning started! The roads were turned into waterways with drains unable to cope with the sheer volume of rain that was falling and the hail was about 5 times it's normal size so they pounded on the windscreen and even though the roof in the van is soundproofed, we could hear the 'tings' as they bounced off the roof. We did debate turning back but when we got there it was like someone had turned off the weather and for a moment the sun appeared. As you can see from the first image, the storm cell was never far away and at times the rain started again but nothing like it was coming down.

All with the Pentax K1 and either DFA 24-70mm or DA* 60-250mm

Storm Cell

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Brace

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Faux Angel

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Hit & Run

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Looking Up

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Close Fly By

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Eyes On The Prize

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Guitar and a Pint

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Borrowers On the Railing

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

The Hog

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

End Of The Day

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

Faux Angel in Mono

Barry Food Festival 2022 by Gareth Williams, on Flickr

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Gareth
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My outfit: K1 gripped - K3ii - two Z-1P - Pentax D FA 24-70mm - Sigma 70-200mm OS HSM - Pentax modified DA* 60-250mm f4 - Irix 15mm Firefly - Pentax FA 35mm - FA 50mm - Sigma EX 20mm - FA 28-70mm f4 - Tamron SP 90mm macro - Pentax AF 540 FGZ II

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You packed a lot into your hour, including evading the marauding gulls. The buggers gang up and attack people in Blackpool.

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I'm enjoying the gull photos, especially 'Close Fly By'.

Philip

Gulls comments - agree with both David and Philip.

As always with your work, I do like B&W. However, it's the two images, Storm Cell and Eyes On The Prize, with the 'threatening' sky that appeal. Powerful. Faux Angel in Mono made me smile. Nice ones all.

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Be well, stay safe.

My thoughts too - an hour (and a pound) well spent

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LennyBloke

Thanks all! I'd stay longer but paying an extra fiver for maybe another hour down there doesn't make sense in my head.

Re then gulls, I saw some ladies walking towards me and one was eating some chips. The gulls aerial attacked her and practically landed on her shoulder for her chips! Camera was in the messenger bag and as I battled the clip and the 2 velcro pads to get it out, they'd scarpered but empty handed!

My local down the road had to close the restaurant as it got struck by the lightning I was driving through on the way down to get these. Luckily the bar is still open there

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Gareth
Welsh Photographer

My outfit: K1 gripped - K3ii - two Z-1P - Pentax D FA 24-70mm - Sigma 70-200mm OS HSM - Pentax modified DA* 60-250mm f4 - Irix 15mm Firefly - Pentax FA 35mm - FA 50mm - Sigma EX 20mm - FA 28-70mm f4 - Tamron SP 90mm macro - Pentax AF 540 FGZ II

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