Today’s Post by Joe Farace
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. —Henry David Thoreau
Even though 2023 may not have been the kind of year that many of us had hoped it would be, I have many reasons for being thankful on this Thanksgiving day, including…
Absent friends. The World Wide Web is one way that we can share our thoughts and images with others, no matter where they may be located on this planet. Over the years I’ve made some great friends, some of whom I would have never have known except for the Internet. These wonderful people include Mark Kalan in Mexico, Ralph Nelson in California, Juan Pablo Assus in Colombia and John Larsen in Canada. My thanks to you all for being my friends.
I also want to give thanks to some people who are right here in Colorado, starting with…
Thanks go out to Barry Staver for his continued friendship while sharing a cup of coffee or tea, while discussing photography (and a lot of other stuff) as well as the inspiration his amazing images have given me over the years.
Thanks to Cliff Lawson a gifted portrait photographer for the time we share together laughing and learning about life, cars and photography.
Thanks to Jamie Zartman for being my friend. He lives 200 miles away so I don’t see him as often as these other guys but he’s always in my thoughts. Thanks to Kevin Elliott whose calm measured response to the panic whenever one of my computer crisis arises and for his skills and talents that always rescue the day. A giant thank you goes out to Tim Fiedler for his hard work in shaping this and my other websites. He’s a talented computer/software/hardware genius, an inventive photographer and all-around good guy.
Thanks to LensPen, who has been a sponsor of this website and blog since its very beginning. Without their support it would be hard for me to try to Save the World, One Pixel at a Time. A special thanks goes out to all the readers of this blog as well as my Instagram followers and YouTube subscribers for hanging in there. Your loyalty and support inspire me to write these posts and create those videos.
And finally a special thanks to my wife, Mary who makes me happy every day by showing how much she cares and inspiring me to be the very best version of myself. When I met her more than forty years ago I could never guess at what our life would become, the travels we would have and the photographs and memories we would share. She is a shining beacon of what being a truly kind person is all about and by her actions have shown me how to be the person I try to be. I only hope to live long enough to become that kind of person that she is.