Regarding orientation, I always used to manually straighten portrait shots counter-clockwise. Then Flickr started to auto-straighten them...but I later realised that if you download them, they're back as they left the camera. But the Windows picture viewer will put them up the right way in one click. From next year I will go back to manually straightening images again now I know that Flickr only appears to put them up the right way.
My own impression in Brighton was that there were far fewer women who went the full monty than in previous years. I have a suspicion that the obsession of one or two stewards with 'pervs' put some off, for sure. Am guessing the much smaller size of the ride (about two thirds smaller than the previous two) made some feel more self conscious too. And the biggest issue - the cool and quite windy day.
Unlike most previous rides, this time I was mostly using a less than stellar lens simply because I kept needing more width. The awful light added to the other issues to make sure that the set was generally quite mediocre in quality. But given the monsoon conditions shortly before the event got underway, it could have been a whole lot worse. You try not to dwell on 2014, which was a one off, red hot, sunny, with everyone in a party mood.
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