Musical Publishers Association AGM 25th June 2010

For the 2nd year running I covered the MPA's Annual General Meeting, which is a lot more fun than its sounds. Firstly the people who attend are the denizens of the music world, who create the music we all listen to and the music publishers who propagate it to performers and all the people who channel the fees from performances in all medias to the performers and composers and songwriters.

Secondly, once the work of the AGM (approving, minutes, accounts, re-appointing auditors and officials etc.) is done there is always a music based game based on advocates for particular songwriters and composers, which this year, surprise, surprise was based on the World Cup and very amusingly so!

Using two camera's, a Fuji Fine pix S5 Pro and a S3Pro  with Nikon SB 800 and 600 Flashes both kitted out with Gary Fong Lightsphere II diffusers and a variety of wide angle and telephoto lenses, I photographed the pre AGM arrivals and coffee/biscuits socialising, the AGM itself, the World Cup based competition and prize giving and the post event drinks, canapes and table football in the basement. Gary Fong's diffusers are a marvel and give studio quality light on the hoof and I could not live without them.

I look forward to next year!