This auction spotter was entertaining to watch as he coaxed higher and higher bids from the audience. His job involved shouting, a variety of gestures, and once – when he couldn’t get the bidder to go up another $500 or $1,000 to secure the bid – he tossed his program into the air in exasperation.

Pro tip: if you keep your camera up to your eye and keep shooting (or acting like you are), it’s hard to accidentally bid on something.

Random (to me) comment from the auctioneer (referring to a horse, not the spotter)(I think): He knows how to drink water in a strange place.

Mallet Event Center
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.10.2024