I popped along to this a couple of weekends ago, just for Saturday as I had the car at a local show on the Sunday. Weather was a bit showery, which put a stop to a bit of wandering around so I came back with fewer photos than I usually take. I took the train into Llangollen (display cars are at Glyndyfdrwy) and managed to get enough dry time to walk back along the canal to Berwyn station, and along a bit further to Horseshoe Falls (which isn't really a waterfall, nothing more than a weir). I did want to walk a bit further around to the nearby church, but a combination of increased rain and some trouble with the timetable meant I got back to the Glyn ASAP so as not to be stranded.

1. South of the River Dee at Llangollen

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2. Canal Bridge

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3. Foxcote Manor at Berwyn station

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4. Along the Dee

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5. Berwyn station

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6. Berwyn station facing west

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I did notice another Pentax user while I was waiting at Berwyn, not sure if it was anyone on here.

As always, comments and critique (on the photos, not why I didn't ask the other Pentax user if he was on here) welcome.

Yes, some good stuff there. I must admit I don't tend to spend a lot of time in those areas, except at places like Malpas where they've got them connected up to something like a mechanical saw cutting through a tree trunk or similar.

The SD1 sounded very nice when he stuck his foot down, though I don't recall seeing it later on Sunday so I hope nothing happened to it.

Cheers all. There was a new McLaren 675LT there, but I don't recall seeing it on the track, much less clearing the ground on the bridge. I was hoping to get the Bentayga "in flight", but it didn't seem to take off - it wasn't for the want of power, so I wonder if some of the trickery stops it.

Thanks, I've got a couple of shots with a slight "moment" as the track was a little damper than expected, but the trouble is that the track is very tight (you can see the trees very close, so no room for mistakes) so as soon as it's a bit greasy everyone slows down. A lot of the bikes were at walking pace on Friday for that reason.

Always a decent range of stuff at this event - would be nice to see more of course, but there's always a few unusual things present.

A new name for the event, formerly known as the Pageant of Power, and perhaps a little smaller in the running list. Weather is often a problem here, so that didn't help getting people in through the gates, though the reality wasn't as bad as the forecasts in the days running up to the show.

As always, comments or criticism welcome. These are all on my Kx, with either the 18-55 kit lens, the Sigma 50-500 (the jumping shots) or the Sigma 18-200. I tried the kit lens because I was wondering if the 18-200 that I've adopted as the usual walking about lens is not quite as sharp.

1. Bastos Capri recreation, made a lovely noise on full chat.

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2. Chris Williams and the Napier-Bentley, running gingerly due to the damp

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3. Another replica, this time an IMSA BMW M3

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4. A selection of rally cars ran the track, though a proper rally stage might have been better

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5. Maclaren MP4-12C gets air

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6. A comfortable riding position

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7. New Bentley Bentayga could certainly put the power down

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8. Not sure how much help the rear wing is, quite difficult to get motion blur

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9. Rover SD1 rally car also sounded nice

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10. Not sure what to say about this

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I ran into Simon Arran at the show too, I haven't been on the forum much so I wasn't aware of his recent defection to the dark side, still, nice to catch up.

I also prefer number 2 over the others, though not by much. These wheels are always a pain as they over-do the lighting a bit, so it's more difficult to balance that against the surroundings. Nice to see it's in a decent spot though, last time I took some at Chester they'd shoved it down behind the bus station with nothing decent in the area to make the rest of the picture.

I saw one person with a white DSLR, which I assume was a Pentax, but no-one else, though I do keep a look out. I was mainly up there, and on the platform for a bit, so it could have been me. I've already seen some other photos on another forum where I'd been cropped out of the bottom edge. Small world.

Having reviewed my photos I'm not sure there's many worth posting - I was experimenting with expose-to-the-right and I think I might have overdone it.

I came down to this on Friday afternoon, just for a couple of hours at Llangollen itself, but haven't done anything with the photos yet, I'll open a separate topic when I get a minute. You've got some nice different stuff, mine is mainly loco shots from bridges and platforms. Is the signal box at Carrog open to the public generally?

There's a select of special weekends across the year, I've applied to display the car at Classic Transport Weekend in July, then there's the Autumn Steam Gala at the beginning of September.

The rules seem to vary - I recall some tickets used to say "no professional-style cameras", though my latest one just goes back to "no cameras or recording equipment". I think it was the 2012 Olympics where someone mentioned here that there was a length limit on the zoom lenses allowed in to the various venues. I guess you have to consider they need a rule that can be applied on the door by people who (we have to assume) have no knowledge of camera equipment and just need to get the queue in as quickly as they can. I've had no trouble with my Casio (the search on the way into Liverpool Academy revealed it, with no problem) but I had to leave my old Pentax ME Super at the security office when I went to Birmingham (Odeon I think) in the eighties.

I've come to the decision that for the small number of gigs I go to, it's just as easy to keep a look out for other peoples shots. If my Casio stops working, I'll keep it in mind for the replacement.