It seems I am not getting some emails, nothing I can pin down at the moment, but I have spoken to a couple of people who have emailed me and I have not seen the them. And yes I checked the spam folder.

Until I can find a solution, probably the best thing to do is drop a comment onto this thread and I’ll contact you.

This is a set of photos I took on the campsite at Bideford Folk Festival, in a large old army tent. Musicians would come in and sing or play (or both) and for me it was the highlight of the week.

Light was provided by 3 lightbulbs in the centre of the tent, but mostly nobody sat under these. Generally the shots are at least 2 stops underexposed from ISO 3200, 1/60th @ F2.8. So expect them to be noisy. The autofocus didn’t work superbly under these conditions either, spoiling a few otherwise superb shots.

I’m writing this on the Sunday night after a week in Bideford, a pretty little town in Devon. Overall it has been good fun. The campsite is lovely, being sited on the side of a hill overlooking the river at the Hallsannery Field Centre. The site was well appointed, having great features like a separate tap with a hosepipe on it to fill a motorhome’s tanks and another tap for flushing out cassette toilets. There was a tent on the site where late night sessions could be had, with lots of people joining in.
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So I did the Dartmoor Folk Festival next, and what a pleasant change. Nice and relaxed, lovely village, well organised camping. The only thing that to my mind wasnt quite right was the PA was always way too low. For example watching The Devil’s Interval (a great trio of singers), from the back both the girl’s voices were indistinct from each other and seemed to be drowned out by the bloke’s voice. When I went down the front to take some photos and stood in front of the speakers, you could hear it all. Mind you for a change I could stand in front of the speakers without having my brains blown out by the sound.

Speaking to some people here at Bideford, they had the same problem too with the sound at Dartmoor.

This was written at Sidmouth but I couldnt get it to post.

I’ve spoken to a few more people here who are all season ticket holders and they say they are having trouble getting into a few of the concerts. The programme explains that entry to the events is advance event ticket holders (i.e. people who have paid separately for the event) first, then season ticket holders, if anything left then they can be sold on the door.
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Hello from a campsite in Sidmouth! I’m clinging to the side of a reasonably steep hill in the Devon countryside. If it tips down with rain here I don’t know how anybody is going to get out

Unfortunately, things aren’t going well. Firstly I went to the Bulverton Marquee on Friday night, which is just a climb from the campsite. I was there to watch/photograph the excellent Mawkin, a band I met back at the Cuckoo pub back near Chelmsford. The programme was supposed to start at 8pm, but didnt kick off till 8.30. Which was lucky as I took ages to climb that hill

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