Some old Thanet pictures Margate Carnival tomorrow and a bit of a ramble at the end.

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I went of to the pavilion aka spoons for a bit of sketching and reading, just a bit of a break really as there were plenty of other workers at Michael's Bookshop where I work here in Ramsgate.

I took a few photos to show how busy Ramsgate Sands was today, I think the trick here is to get the photo definition low enough not to be able to identify people, which I consider intrusive, but shrp enough to provide a record of how Ramsgate is doing this year tourist wise.

 The pictures should expand when clicked on here on the blog. This ability expand pictures to a reasonable size is one of the reasons I still use a Google Blogger hosted blog to write text and put up local photos.

I am interested to know what people think about this approach.

 Margate Carnival tomorrow sorry if the gif from 2013 is a bit queasy I am getting better at doing them

Link 1 Margate Carnival 2013 photos

Link 2 Margate Carnival 2013 photos

Margate Carnival 2013 pictures

Here are the various links to the pictures

http://michaelsbookshop.com/laptop813/id2.htm

http://michaelsbookshop.com/laptop813/id3.htm

https://plus.google.com/photos/103118335852639233427/albums/5908347364304418321?banner=pwa

https://plus.google.com/photos/103118335852639233427/albums/5908329770771595809?banner=pwa

https://plus.google.com/photos/103118335852639233427/albums/5908347711741434049?banner=pwa 

Please accept my apologies for a bit of an average job here, I didn’t take my big camera and just a few pictures with a little one and a mobile phone.

I also missed the beginning as I was in The Turner Contemporary chatting to one of the gallery attendants, I like to know how things are going there and I think they seem to be going fairly well at the moment.

The current exhibition seems to be better attended and more appreciated than the previous two, I detected a bit of a feeling that the last one with the projectors that kept breaking down and the previous Emin one (blue woman having difficulty with blue tampon) didn’t do much for visitor numbers.

In my opinion what the gallery lacks at the moment is a big picture – sculpture – the Kiss and the James Webb of Margate filled this bill and at the moment there is a fairly insignificant painting of a servant eavesdropping, some fairly small Turners of birds and of course the pages from the Da Vinci decode, but no big picture. Don’t get me wrong here it’s is an entertaining exhibition worth going to see but this is about me and what I want which is at least one large work of art to wow me.

As you can see from the photos Margate Carnival was pretty good this year  

Sorry I also seemed to have messed up publishing the picture folders with three of the links leading to web folders containing 100 pictures from my phone when I only took 200 pictures of the carnival with it.