September (and Q3)
The production target for Quarter 3 has been met, with the September total ending up at 88 images. I can also finally confirm the June total at 144; the last session at Badbury Rings was processed during the month, but for various reasons I elected to only process a few images and scrap the rest.
September has seen a photographic debut in two counties, and one hemisphere. All but one of the production images for the month were taken in the Eastern Hemisphere, during my East Anglian holiday in second week of the month, which involved four National Trust Properties and my first-ever visit to the North Norfolk Railway. The 2026 National Trust targets have now not only been met, but exceeded, with 9 properties visited, 4 of which were first-time visits (for targets of 8 and 2 respectively). I only took the A7III with me on this trip for space-saving reasons; there were perhaps a couple of occasions where the extra focal lengths I can deploy with the A77 would have been useful, but for the most part the A7III performed well.
The downside of this activity is that the month was very light on railway images. I only took a couple of images at the NNR, on what was the wettest day of the holiday, and the timing meant that I didn’t visit the Dean Forest Railway for their diesel gala (theoretically I could have done the Sunday, but after a 3-hour drive back from Norfolk on Saturday, I wasn’t really in the mood for another 3 hours driving on the Sunday, and the weather wasn’t all that good, anyway). I wasn’t all that bothered about the Severn Valley Railway’s Steam Gala or the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Model Railway event.
Sales for the quarter were about the same as for 2025 Q3.
Sales for the quarter were about the same as for 2025 Q3.
October (and Q4)
I hope to make up for the lack of railway work in September,
with potentially three events taking place in October that I would like to
do. I would like to fit in at least one
more National Trust property this year, but I don’t want to go all out to beat
the record of 12 visits in a year as I think this could produce too much work
(but I won’t completely rule out doing this).
The production target for Q4 currently stands at 39 images, and as I did
111 in the same period last year, I don’t see this as too difficult a target to
reach.
Looking forward towards the end of the year, the top level
of this site could use some updating, and the two heritage property gallery
pages may well become three (I’ve already done some transfers due to the new
properties visited in the month).
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