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West Grinstead & District Ploughing Match and Show
I've never been to an event on a farm like this before but I will be going to plenty in the future. When I read 'farm' In the advert I had visions of something on a smaller scale with little ploughing matches in little fields! This event was probably the equivalent in size to London Pride with almost as many people, albeit a completely different community, with completely different but equally interesting characters. I decided I'd start a new series of portraits of strangers from rural communities. Humphrey's portrait definitely doesn't fit in with my 'Portraits from the Street' series.
I stopped to talk with Humphrey Avon as he was watching the Ploughing match and the magnificent horses pulling the ploughs. He was proudly telling me all about the ploughing and the horses and I got the sense that he'd been in this community all his life but I never asked. We also talked about his pipe smoking and how the use of pipes has died out, replaced by e cigarettes? Humphrey kindly offered to light his pipe so I could get a photo of him in character. It's the sort of photo that will have historical significance in years to come.
Skeet Shooting | view on black
My shooting buddies and I went skeet shooting today. I packed my break action 12 gauge shotgun, a few boxes of ammo, shell pouch, ear and eye protection, then headed to the skeet and trap range early. Along with the rest of my shooting gear was the other shooting gear.
After two rounds of American skeet and two rounds of Wobble skeet (one round of consists of 25 clays), I decided to do the other kind of shooting and was fortunate enough to get a few good shots.
Skeet shooting is one of the major types of clay shooting discipline. A variant of skeet called International skeet was introduced in the Olympics in 1968.
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 280 mm
Optics: Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR + Nikon TC 1.4x
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Woke up a few minutes before the alarm, after a good sleep - pleasing. Went with Tim to the clay shooting club today, for something a little different - 'down the line'. The best bit of it was that the 'pull' function was voice activated, so I could take loads of photos while the automation did my usual job! I did still keep score for Tim though, so I was well occupied. Tim had a good time, too - we were lucky to have this whole thing to ourselves, and he was able to have a go on all five stands a few times over.
I finally got all my old photos out of the store room this afternoon (with Tim's help - the box was very heavy!), and made a start on scanning some of them. I'm going through all my Uni ones at the moment, but hoping to post some on here over the next few months - especially where I have diary entries that let me know what date they are from.
West Grinstead & District Ploughing Match and Show
I've never been to an event on a farm like this before but I will be going to plenty in the future. When I read 'farm' I had visions of something on a smaller scale with little ploughing matches in little fields! This event was probably the equivalent in size to London Pride with almost as many people, albeit a completely different community, with completely different but equally interesting characters. I decided I'd start a new series of portraits of strangers from rural communities. This portrait definitely don't fit in with my 'Portraits from the Street series.
I stopped to talk with Humphrey Avon as he was watching the Ploughing match and the magnificent horses pulling the ploughs. He was proudly telling me all about the ploughing and the horses and I got the sense that he'd been in this community all his life but I never asked. We also talked about his pipe smoking and how the use of pipes has died out, replaced by e cigarettes? Humphrey kindly offered to light his pipe so I could get a photo of him in character. It's the sort of photo that will have historical significance in years to come.
only short and was on my phone, so not the best quality, but you can see the clay go up, my mum shoot and hit it (I think)
Raft Building on our lakes at A Day in the Country Ltd, is just one of the activities that we provide. visit www.adayinthecountry.co.uk for more information.