This year I bought a regular "Spotter" package since the free Press package did not include access to the better photo areas. I think in '05 we had 300 "Spotters", now it's grown to 800, many of whom do not bring a camera. It's getting a bit crowded and inflexible, truth to be told.
This is becoming one of my pet peeves w/ Rhode Island on Friday's and on the weekends. They have people coming in with P&S camera's trying to capture jet teams, then they'll get up on the scissor lift and just waste space or worse, move around while others are trying to shoot rocking the lift. I've stopped using the media area just for these reasons.
I'm hoping this won't be the case at Oceana this year because they're saying the media area is smaller than last year.
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