Lowlight: The queue to get in! Over an hour and a half to get into an afternoon event that consisted of a stage and a half.
Fill in: This offering from Magic FM had some great pop acts but I missed the beginning of them as was stuck in an interminable and inexplicable long queue that ran half way round the least interesting parts of the estate. We did get good backstage access even if the press area was cordoned off into what was more like a concentration camp (no loos, no food, no tea or coffee and stage running times hand written and sellotaped to the side of the portacabin). The pit was extremely narrow and high so it was mainly up the nose and skirt shots plus squalling showers burst over the proceedings at regular intervals. Luckily the three songs we had for each act managed to avoid most of these but the raincoats for the cameras were constantly at the ready.
Tech Spec: Usual festival gear of long zoom, short zoom, full frame and DX bodies, plus storm jackets for both all shoved into a crumpler rucksack - fairly robust and waterproof. Because of the narrow pit and high stage I took lots of the live shots from extreme stage left or right on a long lens.
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