Hello from the brick castle

Welcome, Joseph. Glad you have joined.

There is a BUY/SELL/TRADE forum where you can post any sets for sale. We’ve got a decent sized group here so often transactions can be made “locally” as you said. 🙂

Sweet, I look forward to any PaB Wall photos that you send, thanks! To date, nobody else has submitted PaB wall photos, except I think maybe Josh, one time; therefore, I don’t have any protocol in place for how to handle them. For now, the easiest thing to do would be to email me the photos directly, at bengood921@yahoo.com.

If you send me any photos, I’ll need you to do some things:
– Include the date you took the photos.
– Resize all photos to 2500 pixels wide. Any aspect ratio is okay. I don’t wanna deal with larger photos than that though, they’re unnecessary given current screen resolutions and slow things down.
– Name the .jpgs so that I know what container each pic is. The ‘About’ section of the Flickr account explains the container naming system, it’s very easy.
– My phone struggles mightily with the lighting in the store, and despite my best efforts, it’s often very difficult to tell the actual color of the parts being displayed; as a result, I have started including the color names in the photo description for every bin. If your camera has similar problems, you’ll need to find a way to clarify any uncertain colors for me.
– I take an overall ‘wall from the left’ and ‘wall from the right’ pic every time I go. I don’t know if they matter much, but they always get as many views as the rest of the photos, so I’m still including them. I usually go in the middle of the afternoon during the week when it’s unlikely to be crowded. I also usually go on a Friday, because, unless things have changed, the most common day for them to get new parts in is Thursday.

When I upload new photos, I only replace the ones that have changed (plus the two wide shots); updating bins where the parts are the same just to keep track of the level of parts in the bin is an exercise in futility. For a long time, I did this thing where I brought up the Flickr account on my phone while I was at the wall, and then went through the bins comparing to the photos, and only took pics of the ones that had changed, and then sorted through it when I got home. This was supposed to be saving me time – I wasn’t taking photos of any bins that hadn’t changed – but I eventually (only recently, unfortunately) figured out that this is not the most efficient way to do it: it’s easier to just plow through and take a pic of every bin as fast as I can. Then I can sort through what’s changed and what’s not when I get home. And so my advice to you or anybody else taking the photos is that you should do it this way.

Hopefully all that typing on my part is not deterring you. If you haven’t found the current album on Flickr, the link is below. The thread about updates for the wall is called Pick a Brick Wall, I usually have to do a search for it.