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Guido T Poppe amp Philippe Poppe - Since 1994

New Additions | Auction | Encyclopedia | Shell Topics April 08 2019

Last week we got a considerable work charge full of surprises which eveninterrupted the constant flux of OFFER OF THE DAY emails special listings and thelike Not the least we could not find the time to prepare an auction But now all endedgood and we are back on track although the coming week will have a full charge ofevents also We do our best to finalize an auction If not possible you will get informedin advance

Few people suspect the work behind our auctions apart from selecting forhours shells to arrive at an expected 21 or 24 pieces the auction takes one day full tophotograph and prepare the digital images In order to get the most exact results weuse artificial daylight for the photography and calibrated screens In fact both thesetools are used for all of the shells even the cheapest one But the artistic input ismerely the work of Jerlyn which many among you know already - especially also fromher visit to Europe two years ago At the same time Sheila will look up informationabout the shells concerned which will allow me to finish the text in one go in 6 to 8hours The final half day is used by Philippe who double checks the quality andexactitude of the photos Sheila who rereads and corrects my texts and myselfdouble checking for a last amelioration the photographs rereading all and correctingwhere necessary Mistakes sometimes still slip in but it is rather uncommon The fullscale of events is 32 hours of manpower for the 24 shells auctioned

Back to the present we are now all the happy victims of Nikon these Japaneseclever people came up with what all naturalists are missing since born a tool tophotograph far away animals in a perfect way with an affordable camera This is thenewly born NIKON COOLPIX P1000 If you are fast with your supplier of cameramaterial and you maintain a gentle relation with him - you will get one The thing costsaround 1000 euro (in this case only) This camera was announced but finally touchedthe public with only one year of delay for some obscure reason Philippe got his

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machine in Antwerp 10 pieces arrived in the shop and were sold out in less than 20minutes The time to cash the money He got one and tested asap I got the firstastonishing photos minutes later in the Philippines a dove with details as never seenbefore

The banner of this newsletter are two Bubulcus ibis in front of our officeswalking only 40 meters away from the road where Philippe used the P1000

This weekend we got the great event of what is called The Philippine ShellShow This event perfectly organized by Mark and Elgie Reeki from the USA andwhich takes place in the beautiful Island of Siquijor was this last weekend

For the same overflux of events that Sheila and me could not fly over to Siquijor- which we planned to do - we did not assist But Philippe and Mona could They tooktheir usual small private plane (the cost is the same as a regular flight when you are 3persons) and the photographs with the P1000 are quite amazing and surprising Weselect a few for you so you get a glimpse of the country and the Shell show

Your photographers Philippe Mona and Alex They have their plane with their pilot year in year out the same In big contrast with helicopters small planes aretruly affordable in the Philippines



Test shot with the P1000 a landing plane that get priority over the flying beefrom our family Almost one km away

And this is Cebu center today small Asian city of well over 2 million people 15years ago there were only a couple of skyscrapers today you cannot count these anylonger there are almost another 30 skyscrapers on Mactan Island today Startsresembling Hong Kong On the horizon on the left the Mount Manunggal complexreaching 900 m high and full of untouched wildlife The tops on the right near theskies are also amost 1000 m in height and about 30 km far They were well exploredby Moumlllendorff



Another detail of the city center still small but in some areas very clean andultra modern Many facilities of high level superb shopping malls and equally superbhotels are now plenty in Cebu

And this is a view overlooking the southern end of Mactan with behind smallIslands on the left the southern tip of Olango Island and at the horizon the coast ofBohol the Inabanga region In front crystal clear waters this is at only 4 km from thecenter of Cebu you have seen on the previous photos



Philippe could not resist to photograph this beautiful coral reef at the western tipof Siquijor a few hundred meters offshore and the white patch you see is 12 metersdeep and pure sand about the size of a football-field Each time I flew there in thepast I watched the tip and one day about 10 years ago I dived it entirely there werehuge quantities of Terebra maculata - big sizes - working their way in the sand someinteresting bivalves but especially several Vasum ceramicum a species which is notliving near Mactan or on the north coast of Bohol unless one is lucky to find the rareexception

Arrival at the perfectly organized Philippines Seashell Convention in Siquijor Itwas very very hot according to Mona and Alex



And here a more than happy Alex discovering his good friend Ron Moylan insidethe Convention room

Philippe got the time to photograph some magnificent waterbirds just outsidethe convention This is the smart and shy Butorides striata



And this magnificent and large Ardeid is Egretta alba

After half a day on the spot where Philippe got his handful with all the friends ofConchology present the flight back in the evening light Back view on the Bohol Seawith Siquijor already far behind

Tomorrow over 40 conchologists will visit our offices - in the late eveningConchology Inc invites them all in the Radisson Blu which has one of the finestbuffets in town It promises to become a very nice malacological evening and I amlooking forward to the event



In the meantime we continue working hard to get all in track again and thankyou for your patience and continued visits to our homepage As for your informationin 2018 the number of sessions exceeded 75 millions Why did we once think interestin shells and malacology was going down The reverse is well proven by today thesubject was never that popular We close with an image of a not so rare butmagnificent Amphidromus from the south of Palawan

Sincerely yours Guido T Poppe For Conchology Inc

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machine in Antwerp 10 pieces arrived in the shop and were sold out in less than 20minutes The time to cash the money He got one and tested asap I got the firstastonishing photos minutes later in the Philippines a dove with details as never seenbefore

The banner of this newsletter are two Bubulcus ibis in front of our officeswalking only 40 meters away from the road where Philippe used the P1000

This weekend we got the great event of what is called The Philippine ShellShow This event perfectly organized by Mark and Elgie Reeki from the USA andwhich takes place in the beautiful Island of Siquijor was this last weekend

For the same overflux of events that Sheila and me could not fly over to Siquijor- which we planned to do - we did not assist But Philippe and Mona could They tooktheir usual small private plane (the cost is the same as a regular flight when you are 3persons) and the photographs with the P1000 are quite amazing and surprising Weselect a few for you so you get a glimpse of the country and the Shell show

Your photographers Philippe Mona and Alex They have their plane with their pilot year in year out the same In big contrast with helicopters small planes aretruly affordable in the Philippines


























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