We know you love music festivals but are you an avid photographer too?

Well, if you are or want to start I found a great resource. Digital Photography Hints is a website containing helpful tips & advice on using your digital camera. The owner, Matt Hobbs, has crafted three great articles about taking photos at festivals. They are a great read and i hope you find them as useful as i did. Plenty of time to brush up your skills for next years summer events!

1) Festival Photography: Latitude Festival 2008 De-brief

2) Latitude Festival Crowds

3) Festival Photography: Camera Packing Hints

For these great articles click on the link below.

http://digitalphotographyhints.com/?s=festivals

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Green Man Festival On Tour is back. Dates have now been announced for a series of gigs. Dates are as follows;

November
25th Glasgow – Captains Rest
26th Edinburgh - The Bowery
27th Newcastle – All Saints Church
28th Manchester - Dulcimer
30th Eaglescliffe – Waiting Room

December
1st London - Luminaire
3rd Bristol - Cube Cinema
4th Cheltenham - Slak Bar
5th Cardiff - Instore @ Spillers
6th Brighton - Unitarian Church

For full tour details, YouTube clips and a chance to win a pair of tickets to any of these gigs please go to the Green Man web site. www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk

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A limited number of ‘gold-dust tickets’ for T in the Park 2009 will be offered on Friday 28th November. These tickets are being offered at 2008 prices as a gift idea for Christmas! If that wasn’t seasonally generous enough each ticket purchasers will receive an exclusively designed T in the Park Christmas card when they order the tickets.

Ticket prices are the same as 2008:

• Saturday and Sunday combined tickets are priced at £137
• A weekend camping (including Friday arena access) ticket is priced at £160
• car park tickets which must be bought in advance are priced at £17.50
• A Thursday camping upgrade is priced at £10.

Tickets are still available to stay in the bespoke camping area The Residence in either tipis (2,3, or 4 people), podpads (2 people), yurts (2 people) or large master yurts (2,3,or 4 the price includes a weekend camping ticket valid for stay from Thursday to Monday, access to the Hospitality area, and a car park pass). Prices range from £917 to £2,210 depending on the option chosen.

For more information about the festival see our guide.

To buy tickets online, click here.

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WOMAD or World of Music, Arts and Dance, to give it it’s full title is a festival bringing together many forms of music, arts and dance from countries and cultures around the world.

The event is always held at Charlton Park, so enter the following in Googlemaps, you satnav or iphone for the exact location:  Malmesbury,Wiltshire,SN16 9DG 24-26 July 2009 Tickets on Sale Now

Early Bird tickets for WOMAD Charlton Park 2009 are available at an even better price than 2008 direct at http://www.womadshop.com

There are a limited number of these discounted tickets so hurry to www.womad.org and be the early bird to catch the worm. The offer ends either when they are all snapped up or on December 16th 2008.

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