Henry Peters out near Barry

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Have you ever wondered who considered giving storms human names?

I mean they've pretty much passed by the time I've learnt their names & I'm not too good at putting a name to a wind - they all look the same to me!- I guess someone - probably a committee, gets paid to christen them?!

I decided on Sunday night having checked the weather forecast to finally make the 6 hour round trip over the Bristol Channel - to the country where men are men & the sheep are nervous (so I've been told) and the road signs have strange foreign subtitles.

I've been meaning to go to Porthcawl for years ever since I first saw Steve Garrington's incredible stormy lighthouse shots.

I arrived a bit later in the day than I'd wanted, having stopped too many times for coffee.

Henry was blowing at around 50mph when I arrived so hardly Hurricane weather, there were already a fair few (serious) photographers in place by the time the lightweights like myself rolled up.

Nevertheless I was fairly pleased with the splashing, & the sky was quite dark and moody with the odd moment like this where some bright sunlight broke through & lit up the waves against a contrasting backdrop - I had to shoot fairly wide because I wanted to get the incoming wave to the right in as well as the patch of blue sky in the top left.

Can't wait to go back when the wind gets really serious!!!

I've been to Wales many times - often as a child to Gower, Brecon, Pembrokeshire & Snowdonia but this was my first time to this particular place thanks to the photography addiction and particularly those inspirational shots I've seen before.

Done