MattGrey

8 minutes ago, CMunzel said:

Wow, I’d love to attend that event. Great photos. I hope your son is ok (if I understand correctly that he was the one hurt). 

Thanks, yeah it was my son who got hurt. He was the last soldier on the back of a troop carrier going into a skirmish. As it stopped the tail gate failed and dropped open, taking him with it.  He's fine, was more shaken up than anything, the staff were brilliant looking after him.  

Some beautiful shots there! Hard to pick a favourite, love them all!

Love the colour in that first shot.

More shots on my website at

 https://www.matthewgrey.co.uk/Event-Photography/Warag-2023/ 

if anyone wants to take a look.

My son is a member of the D Day Dodgers, a WW2 re-enactment group.   We took him away to WarAg in Somerset for a weekend of skirmishes meeting up with hundreds of other re-enactors from around the country.  A brilliant weekend and highly recommended, even if, like me, you have little interest in the military.

Unfortunately there was a small incident involving being thrown out the back of a troop carrier and falling 7ft to the ground followed by a short trip to minor injuries!    Thankfully just some bumps and bruising.

Cracking shot!  

Gorgeous shot! 

24 minutes ago, stevedevil said:

Yep, Milky water so great control, and what a place to spend time behind the camera, on this one though Im not sure the building adds anything, it does give some scale to the image though 

I wasn't keen on the building either but I wanted to keep the steps going up the headland and this was the best crop I found to fit them in.  There's also a cafe and a car down there that I had to work around.  

Love the black and white shots!

I'm sure I've shared many photos of this place on here before...but it's still on of my favourite spots to photograph.

EOS 6D : EF 17-40 F4L : 17mm / F8 / 15sec
10 stop ND

8 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

Nicely caught Matt, I prefer the Red Squizzers

I prefer the red too.  Unfortunately they're not an option in my woods. 

Brilliant shot and a great choice!

Have to agree with Clicker.  I love shots of water, but also love to see what the water is doing.   Once any movement has been blurred away, it loses some of it's magic.  Totally subjective of course. 
 

Two more from the same trip. 

Great choice!  I see hundreds of aircraft shots on various forums and media but rarely see one executed so perfectly.  They are either out of focus, massively cropped leaving no detail, blurry or lacking movement in the props...this one just gets everything spot on! 

On 25/03/2023 at 04:20, Fogey said:

Up to your knees in water?  In Winter?  I sincerely hope you had waders on Matt, just to make those lumps in the back of your neck to go down.

A great shot and a great viewpoint. My Life!  How we suffer for our art.

I had my BIG wellies on!  Never considered waders before! What a good idea!

42 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Very peaceful, in contrast to its history.

Given how recently-closed it must have been I'm surprised it wasn't hastily brought back into use to help meet the demand for munitions in 1914.

I'm not sure why it wasn't reopened. At least there is no mention of this in any of the history I have read.  Perhaps the damage from the previous explosions were too extensive to make it worthwhile.  The company who initially owned the works had already relocated, so perhaps they did supply the war effort, just not from this site.

Thanks Everyone

23 minutes ago, Ryewolf said:

Very nice set Matt. I'm off to Wales in the morning, hoping the weather will be okay.

Thanks.  Weather in Cornwall is just miserable at the moment. Hopefully Wales is better. Would love to have a few days up there myself.