Just in case you didn't notice: Lincoln City FC just got promoted to the Championship, winning the League One title, scoring most goals, conceding least, gathering 103 points (the second highest ever achieved), and had the longest run of unbeaten games in a League One season.
I'd have gone to join the parade anyway honouring their achievement but as the day got nearer thought I would bring a camera along. And, in the manner of George Geourgiou (Americans Parade), photographed the people, rather than the players and staff filling the three open top buses. From the start point south of the city I managed to keep ahead of the procession for maybe 40 minutes, before it was impossible to progress through the throng on the pavements nearer the centre. I also couldn't reach the thousands more waiting uphill around the cathedral.
Photographing random people is not my thing, and I don't know how street photographers do it, what with the risk of antipathy. A celebratory parade had probably the least likelihood though, and the vibe proved noisy and smiley. I looked at just one file after I downloaded the pictures, in order to see whether I had totally stuffed up the settings. It had been a while since using this camera and it had taken me half an hour beforehand to figure out how to turn off the large horizontal level guide unexpectedly displaying on the LCD. You can't tell from this downsized image but the 14 megapixel 30 megapixel jpeg has pixel level sharpness. After mucking about with a vintage 5 megapixel Olympus p&s lately this detail struck me as awesome, probably benefitting from the 1/800th shutter speed and f8 lens setting.
I can imagine digging into a hard drive in a hundred year's time and coming across these pictures, a record of what Lincoln looked like on this particuarly special day, both the happy people and the background environment.
The only obstacle standing in my way would be the (dis)organisation of my file storage methodology which makes this scenario slightly less than totally going to happen.
