Kentucky Derby - Ready for the Off

It is Goose Fair time in Nottingham.

The biggest travelling fair in the UK arrives every Autumn.

This is an old school side stall whereby you roll your balls up a ramp and try to drop them into a numbered holes. The horse moves along the track the number of lenghts as indicated by your score

Simple isn't it

Shot a night using only 'available light from the stall;, so the ISO was seriously bumped up

[Annie D]

hope ones balls aren't dropping too far - could be painful :)

[Phil Howcroft]

@annied oh yes lol, I usually have a go but never win. I decided to click my shutter rather than roll the balls :)

[Annie D]

@phil_howcroft you got a great shot!

[Allison Williams]

You did an amazing job on the light. I like his intense expression.

[Hazel]

I've never been to a goose fair - wonder why it's called that. Nice and colourful, like the composition. (I'm sure you have a portrait tucked up your sleeve from this event.... Got my first refusal yesterday - asked the optician at the end of my eye test as we were in a private room plus I'd taken my camera in order to see how specs on a chain would sit with it as I need them to read settings but don't like actually taking shots with them on. She had a good reason for the 'no': they were all behind with appointments as the computers had been down. It didn't bother me.)

[Dione Giorgio]

Very nice and very colourful. Great capture for a night shot. The guy adds life to the shot. Is he another one you asked to pose for you?

[Nick]

Great shot.

[Sylvia du Toit]

Thanks for sharing and well done.

[Phil Howcroft]

@sdutoit many thanks sylvia :)

@nickspicsnz cheers nick

@sangwann thanks diobe, this was shot candid with a longish zoom , so no chat with the stallholder

@quietpurplehaze everything you wanted to kknow about goose fair.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham_Goose_Fair apparently back in the day they used to trade geese from lincolshire :)

@allie912 thank you very much allison :)

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

Aah, the famous Nottingham Goose Fair - a very long-standing event, I believe; I'm sure there's a folk song that mentions it - maybe more than one.
Fun capture.

[Hazel]

@phil_howcroft

So it's sensibly named then!

[Al Bailey]

Oh goodness .... Goose fair is where my Mother and Father met!
Your photo's bring back so many memories with you living where you do :)

[Poppy]

I love this composition, and the way the background points you to the man, the focal point.