Highlight: Great food backstage. Seeing the wonderful Deepa Rai again.
Lowlight:The threat of rain all day. It didn't but the threat is sometimes worse than the actual.
Fill in: Vaisakhi is the Sikh New Year celebrations and I have photographed it before for the GLA. It is quite a hefty brief, having to capture sponsors posters, VIPS backstage, performers on and off stage, crowd shots, over view shots - in short as full a documentary as possible of the whole event.
Tech spec: Whatever the weather for festivals I always take wet weather gear consisting of a storm jacket for my camera (a £50 plastic sleeve) and a poncho for me (a £1 one which is basically a piece of clingfilm in a bag). OK so I look like a blue jellyfish and my camera looks like it is wearing a huge condom but we are dry and happy thank you. OK So Deepa looks amazing, but she is cold - I need my comforts at my age. I can thoroughly recommend the storm jackets as they work and are simple. If you are handy with needle and thread you could probably make one from an old cagoule sleeve.
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