Omega Events brought me back to Spanish Landing Park in May for the twenty-third Gator by the Bay, which made it the first San Diego festival I have photographed already knowing the site. The festival ran seven stages, more than a hundred performances, and ten thousand pounds of Louisiana crawfish across four days on the harbor. This post is about what the second year actually changes, from knowing the real distance between stages to knowing where the second line forms and which direction it moves. It is also about why repeat clients get a better gallery than first-year clients do, whether the job is a festival on the harbor or a single show in a venue.