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Hi Dave . I feel really guilty asking , but need to get my finances in order . I booked vip tickets at the last event in Birmingham for the April Autogaraphica in london . thought it was a good idea to book in advance . , I am wondering now that this event has been scaled down does this vip ticket get me into the event in September ? Or does the vip ticket only cover me for the jerry ross event . ? Sorry to ask but need to get organised .Thanks so much .

Yes . I am going . I think it will be a fun day .

I agree with the above , If you can get Hadfield that would be amazing , or even Mike Mullane .

That sounds ok , I might not cancel the hotel booking yet . This might be a good day out .

What about the hotel booking ?, Will this be automatically rescheduled as i booked the room at the radisson for the previous dates ??

That's really good to know, and hopefully if they just had a little time to take a number of test shots (just a little prior set up) they can get it to work. Would be fabulous.

There are posts on here saying that people have had photo's taken with a back drop without any trouble what so ever . I just do not believe that it should be a problem to provide a suitable back drop appropriate to the situation . Then we can display our photo's on the wall or where ever and folks will know and be curious to understand who is in the photo instead of passing by thinking that its a photo of you and your grand- parents. I understand there is a cost involved but after paying the sometimes considerable sums involved I really think this could be done without too much trouble . I have friends that are amateur photographers and they are struggling to understand why this is a problem . Surely if they pay for a photographer, they can have at least a little time to set up and take a few test shots with the background to make certain they get the lighting right. Photographic back drops are common in photography so how can it be such a problem? The only logical reason I can see is by profit margins. But you may just find by including a great backdrop the popularity of the photos may be increased. People will want to own a better photo produced and pay for this privedge.

I know that comments have been made regarding the problems with the back drop causing reflective issues , Surely a decent photographer is able to deal with that . After all back drops are used all the time . People take there children to pixie photo and have no issues , I had a photo taken at KSC a few years ago and they used a NASA back drop and it looked great . I think this could be done without too much hassle . It would add so much to the look of the photo's. Its a common sense thing really . A good camera and photographer should easily be able to cope with a back drop ...surely . Geez , Even I can do it and I am no proffessional photographer . Great comment btw Kevla .

Yes , no need to be sarcastic , Sometimes the Astronaut wears nothing to show that they are an Astronaut . Occasionally they wear a Nasa jacket ect . I think it would be nice to have the Nasa meatball logo behind . Lets face it most folks cant name an Astronaut so it just looks like a photo with random guys .

I think it would be great to have a NASA back drop when the photo's are taken . Be nice to have that so that when you show folks the photo's or when you use them as profile pics ect ,they see that they are Nasa related .

Love to meet Astronaut Mike Mullane.