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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Beach Bum on November 22, 2012, 09:26

Title: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: Beach Bum on November 22, 2012, 09:26
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  I have many things for which to be thankful.  But, regarding stock photography, I'm thankful for the glimmer of hope that Picturengine brings to an industry with increasingly downward commission rates.
Title: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: JPSDK on November 22, 2012, 09:40
Same to you, though thanksgiving makes no sense here.

But Im thankful that I have ½ a side of bacon in brine, ripening for the smoke.
Title: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: rubyroo on November 22, 2012, 10:06
No Thanksgiving here either, but best wishes and happy Thanksgiving to peeps in the U.S.

To enter the spirit of the thing... even if this industry went belly-up tomorrow, I'd be grateful for the opportunity I've had to have a full-time career that I have loved.  To learn things I thoroughly enjoyed, and to have a market to sell my wares.  Whatever anyone says about today or surmises about tomorrow, this has been the best working era of my life.  Thank you microstock, and especially Jon Oringer who really made this feasible for me.
Title: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: ShadySue on November 22, 2012, 18:40
As this if off-topic, I am very thankful to the staff of Monklands Hospital who, as two teams, made a difficult diagnosis then helped restore my 90 year old Dad back to health, and he got home yesterday after six weeks.  ;D ;D ;D
At the risk of sounding political, I want to point out that contrary to some total misinformation that was put out in the US last year, he got top treatment under the NHS 'despite' being 90.
Title: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: modviz on November 23, 2012, 05:19
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  I have many things for which to be thankful. 

Could never understand why you Yanks celebrate Thanksgiving so close to Christmas.  ::) We Canucks across the border do it during the last week of October. And for all of you who are asking what gives with Thanksgiving, as I always understood it, the day originated with farmers giving thanks to God for their bountiful harvests. 
Title: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: Smiling Jack on November 23, 2012, 17:51
May everyone have-" SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR"!

Smiling Jack
Title: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Post by: RacePhoto on November 26, 2012, 11:52
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  I have many things for which to be thankful. 

Could never understand why you Yanks celebrate Thanksgiving so close to Christmas.  ::) We Canucks across the border do it during the last week of October. And for all of you who are asking what gives with Thanksgiving, as I always understood it, the day originated with farmers giving thanks to God for their bountiful harvests.

Believe it or not, and this is a little known fact. In the USA the holiday was moved to make for a longer Christmas shopping and holiday season. No REALLY! It's all about consumers and commercial enterprise.

Hey wait, the last week of Oct. is Halloween. The time for pagan festivals and all that?  ;)