A miserable day in Wales, but I braved the weather as the players did, and my father in law's bowls team won promotion today to the next league despite being down on all rinks at one point to the side that were nipping at their heels in the league. If they hadn't come back, then they would not have won promotion.
Just as the players meet up at the start after the 'practise ends':
Pentax 645D Pentax A 200mm f/11 1/100 ISO 400
The skipper of one rink surveys the 'head' being built up by his fellow players:
Pentax 645D A 200m f/11 1/125 ISO 800
A player asks his skipper which way he wants him to play:
645D A 200 f/11 1/160 ISO 800
Backhand it is! (you can tell as there is a spot sticker on the backhand side and a circle on the forehand - many players get the wrong 'bias' and the bowl flies off on to another rink sometimes causing chaos! I've done it a few times!) The score card you can see is the score card for my father in law's group of four, and they ended up 10-0 down before winning 18-12, a good fightback!
645D A 200mm f/5.6 1/200 ISO 500
And three players bowl at the same time
645D A 200 f/11 1/125 ISO 800 with a square crop
And finally - it was quite a gloomy day, although it did eventually stop raining, and they got the result that mattered:
Pentax 645D FA 55-110 at 60mm f/11 1/160 ISO 500