Today’s Post by Joe Farace
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. —Henry David Thoreau
What a year 2025 has been. For me there has been a few physical challenges after my surgery in July that I am slowly getting over but I’m not letting them get me down. I still have many reasons for being thankful on this Thanksgiving day. To get started, I want to give thanks to some people who are right here in Colorado…
A GIANT thanks go out to Barry Staver for his continued friendship while sharing a cup of coffee or tea, discussing photography and a lot of other stuff like, photowalks, our podcasts and attending fountain pen shows as well as all of the inspiration his amazing images have given me over the years.
Thanks to Cliff Lawson a gifted portrait photographer for all of the time we have shared together laughing and learning about life, cars and the videos we made about them as well as all kind of photography stuff from gear to concepts.
Thanks to Kevin Elliott whose calm measured response to my panic whenever one of a computer crisis arises and for his skills and talents that always rescue the day. 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. A really BIG thank you goes out to Tim Fiedler for all of 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.
Absent friends. The World Wide Web is one way that to share our thoughts and images with others, no matter where they may be located on the 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 of them for being my friend.
Special thanks go out to LensPen, who has been a sponsor of this website and blog since its beginning. Without their support it would be hard for me to try to Save the World, One Pixel at a Time. Another thank you goes out to all the readers of this blog and my Instagram followers, Patreon supporters and YouTube subscribers for hanging in there with me over the years. 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 while inspiring me to be the best version of myself. When I met her more than forty years ago I could never guess 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 kind of person that I try to be. I only hope to live long enough to become that kind of person that she is.