A bus day today, largely taken up with imaging for the July sale. I will be back in Fakenham tomorrow morning to do an important press release for the Great Centenary Auction which will also of course go on the facebook and twitter pages.
As usual I have plenty of good pictures for you…
With the first Test Match of the summer in progress throughout, the Aegon championships at Queens reaching their conclusion and the final stages of the US Open golf the weekend was dominated by sport. Something going on Brazil, you say – sorry it entirely escaped my attention!
The Aegon final was a classic match, won eventually by Grigor Dimitrov after both he and Feliciano Lopez had let chances slip. That evening Gary Ballance completed his first test century, setting England up for an overnight declaration and a serious attempt at victory. The US Open had comparatively little tension – Martin Kaymer’s dominance of the tournament was too absolute for that.
Then came the final stages of the test match, with England straining every nerve and sinew for wickets, while Sri Lanka hung on by their finger nails, having long since abandoned any hope of anything better than a draw. The match finally ended in a draw, with England needing one wicket. I bracket this match with Old Trafford 2005 as a draw that had everything.
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In amongst all this I still found time to add to my collection of fine pictures…
Another day, another collection of splendid pictures.
I notice that England are going well in the first test match of the summer, having bounced back from a decidedly shaky 120-4 to 575-9d – and that after being put into bat. Joe Root with 200 not out played the big innings around which others, notably Prior (86), Moeen Ali (48), Broad (47) and Plunkett (39) could chip in. Tomorrow I will actually be able to listen the play, and it promises to be an interesting day.
At James and Sons I have been imaging lots for the July sale (PR drive coming soon), and have some interesting pictures from that. I also have some non-work pictures for you. I was also given r3esponsibility for safely storing three pieces of Chester silver which will be lots 1-3 at that sale.
If you should chance to visit www.facebook.com/GreatAuction you will see one picture that I have posted today, and there is another scheduled for this evening. Also of course do not forget www.twitter.com/great_auction and of course extra detail, including ideas for donations, and how you could make such donations can be seen at www.greatcharity.org
Now for the pictures…
Today has been a busy day at James and Sons, with lots coming in for the July sale, and needing imaging. I have some cracking photos, including one which I have used as a marketing ploy on the Great Centenary Auction facebook and twitter pages, giving people a link to follow to find out how to donate if they are so minded, which I now repeat here: http://bit.ly/1l53uOh. As usual I have some pictures for you…
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The catalogue for the June sale of James and Sons is now out, and can be viewed online by following the link provided.
I spent much of yesterday doing stuff on the Database, so I have not got many work images to show, but I have plenty of others, one of which (of Fakenham war memorial) I will be uploading on www.facebook.com/GreatAuction and of course mentioning on www.twitter.com/great_auction. As well as my usual type of photo, I have a collection of banknotes which will be lot 37 in the upcoming auction, and some books which have not yet been assigned to a particular auction but which I imaged at the same time as doing the describing.
Enjoy the images…
Yesterday I attended a meeting of the King’s Lynn Photography Club. They had a chap up from London to give a presentation about conventional and unconventional photography which was quite good. It was excessively hot in the room where this meeting took place, and I had come straight from a tough day at work. Because of this I left at the end of the presentation.
I was very glad to get out into the cool of the evening, and had a late supper outside. I managed to grab a good picture which shows that is not only flags that fly from flagsticks.
After an organising meeting at Raynham Hall for the Great Centenary Auction this morning it was back to James and Sons for another days work. My work images from the last two days are of cigarette card lots, of which some are worth showing. Owing to the sheer number of cards in each lot I generally select one card from each set contained within the lot and make an image of all the cards I have chosen. Facebook and twitter continue to make progress, and we are beginning to get more stuff.
Now for the images…
I had little expectation of a bumper weekend’s photography on Saturday morning, when it was bucketing down with rain and there was no sign of a let up by lunch time (standard British summer day in other words!). But when the weather improved it do so with a vengeance, and Sunday morning was perfect for a long walk in the sun.
With the new camera being so powerful, the tough decisions were over which of my as yet undisplayed pictures I was going to give publicity to. One of these pictures was taken in Norwich on Thursday, but otherwise they are all locations that are within walking distance of central King’s Lynn.
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Here are the photos…
The process of imaging lots for the June sale continues. The catalogue has gone to the printers (proof read and corrected by me first), and should be available for distribution by Wednesday at latest. I did a very varied lot of imaging of today, using both scanner and camera. One of my images shows two sheets of stamps of different sizes, which were imaged by different methods. The scanned sheet of stamps were penny rose reds, while the larger photographed sheet were penny red browns.
At this auction I will be running the auction side of my database live for the first time, thus moving a step closer to the time when my system does everything.
Things are starting to move on the social media side of the Great Centenary Auction, with http://www.facebook.com/GreatAuction having over doubled its tally of likes in the last week, and http://www.twitter.com/great_auction steadily increasing its number of followers.
Enjoy some high quality images of stuff that will be going under the hammer at the Maids Head Hotel, Norwich on June 21st…
Everyone at James and Sons was hugely impressed by the new camera, and I got some good pictures with it, as you will see below.
Having spent most of the day taking pictures with the camera I finished with scanning some of the smaller lots.
As usual I have some highlights for you…
I took possession of my new camera last night, and this morning had a training session with the man who runs the King’s Lynn photography club. As well as teaching me plenty about photography, this chap very kindly gave me a tripod he no longer needs. I have some very fine pictures as a result. I have been doing some practice photography relating to auction lots – selecting various items of mine that either were or could be auction lots and photographing them.
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I hope you enjoy a bumper collection of images, including some from work yesterday that I did not include in that post
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