happy thanksgiving!

Wonderful work! I'm also thankful for Ipernity and the community that against the odds, we've survived! Happy Thanksgiving!

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Thanks so much. And yes, aren't we amazing - we should be a thankful lot.

Thanks for the article and the nice picture ! Happy Thanksgiving, Raingirl !

You're welcome. Hope you had a great day.

I just love this. Very creative, attractive, clever and interesting. And I hope that your thanksgiving was a nice one too! And as for ipernity? I CONCUR!! :D

You're so sweet. Thank you. Just got home from first ever Thanksgiving done by my daughter and her husband. It was really great. Not only was the food wonderful, but they somehow created an evening of no family drama.

Jolie

merci - j'ai besoin de couleurs.

Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving day, Laura !! Here we don't celebrate here, but we eat turkeys for Xmas !!!

I did have a good Thanksgiving. Thank you. It's a lovely holiday. The cities slow down (almost to a halt, though here there is always something active unfortunately - I desire an occasional pause), and people gather with family and friends. This year our daughter and her husband hosted for the very first time. They did a magnificent job! We actually had a family gathering with no drama (dramatics, yes, but no drama if you understand what I mean), and the food was great.

Many people here have turkey for Christmas as well. I think it's way too soon to do the whole thing again and have a tradition of a leg of lamb for Christmas instead. With mint sauce!

So am I!
Thanks for sharing :)

You're welcome. Someone on facebook asked why they should pay to share photos - oh my, I was very kind in my response, I said it was a good questions but that there was no "should" about it - then gave them an earful (again, politely) about all my reasons for being here! Bet they are sorry they asked. Ha!

Hi Laura.
I like your leaf, the calligraphy used, the sentiment expressed and the terrific story! Well done!

Thanks so much Andy. Glad you like the story. I found it fascinating.

I would like to have heard your (polite) earful, Laura!!

well - I'm not sure it was written very well, but it is already on the web (on facebook) so here is my response to the question "excuse me but, why should I pay for sharing pictures?":
"That's a very good question! To start, there is no "should". If you don't want to pay to share photos, then obviously you know there are still places on the web where you can share without paying (except in the sense that you probably have to see ads along with the photos you are viewing).
However, I will do my best to answer why I pay to be part of ipernity. **My short answer, I do it because I want a website where there are people who communicate with each other around the art and fun of photography, a place to really engage with a photograph. **My long answer: I think it has something to do with why I share my photos. Outside of sharing photos here on facebook (I have a very casual business photo page here), I desire to share my photos with other photographers where 1) we can support each other's efforts, 2) learn from each other, gather ideas from each other, and 3) enjoy seeing photos from other people's perspectives and locations around the world. I want to engage with individual photographs and also get support for my photography. ipernity does all that for me. **I started out on flickr, and even paid for an account there so I could have more storage space, but when they changed formats to a stream style I discovered ipernity. a site where the photographs were honored and I could engage with the images and the contributors! Again, I chose to become a paying member because I wanted more storage space. **When ipernity was going to close (maintaining a website with tons of photographs is costly), us photographers joined together and saved the site by purchasing it as a member owned non-commercial website. We are passionate about keeping it going. But we have no ads to support us (which means we have no outside interests telling us how to run the website). We have a small core group of members that spend many hours each week volunteering to do the tasks required to keep the site going. No one is required to do anything in support of the site - there are still free accounts - but without paid memberships the storage fees for the servers and all other costs cannot be paid. I quite simply am thrilled that the site was saved from closing due to a group effort and happily pay, less than $5 per month, to help it continue."
ironically I could have gone on...

A great reply and you put into words so well my feelings about ipernity. In fact much of what you write here could be used by IMA as a kind of "mission statement" (an over-used term that I have come to dislike, but for want of a better term it stays in!).
I'm sure it could be used somewhere with the aim of increasing membership!! There were a few (now ex-) ipernity members who got very hot under the collar about having to pay a fee and I wish I could have used your persuasive comments with them at that time!
Well said and well done, Laura!!
Have a good Sunday!
Andy

I agree with your sentiments Laura, I would reduce the storage amount even for club members it is about sharing it's shouldn't be a storage facility there plenty of inexpensive ways to do that.
Also by uploading lots of images they are not considering their photos and trying to select what they think are the better ones.
Of course it is nice when you get comments liking your photo, but constructive comments and suggestions would also be be good.
Just for fun I have put a few photos in a local exhibition getting 2 or 3 professionaly printed and mounted is a lot more expensive than an ipernity subscription

Chère Raingirl, je te réponds en français car c'est plus simple pour moi, et que je sais que tu auras la traduction de ce que je t'écris, grâce à Ipernity et à sa fabuleuse équipe ! Tu as raison, Ipernity n'est pas simplement un site de partage de photos, Ipernity a une âme, composée de la fusion des âmes de tous ceux et celles qui en font partie !
J'ai bénéficié longtemps de la gratuité de ses services et rencontré de magnifiques personnes qui, grâce à leurs photos, m'ont ouvert des fenêtres sur de nouveaux horizons et m'ont permis de découvrir un peu de leur univers ! J'ai ainsi pu voyager et voir des merveilles du monde entier, sans bouger de chez moi !
Un jour, j'ai compris que j'avais de la chance de pouvoir partager tout çà, et qu'il était juste que j'apporte ma pierre à l'édifice, si petite soit-elle !
Alors, j'ai pris un abonnement d'un an, et quand j'ai su que notre cher site risquait de fermer, comme beaucoup d'autres, j'ai voulu participer et j'ai renouvelé pour cinq ans !
Et comme toi, je l'ai fait avec joie ! Je ne me suis pas posé de questions, me contentant du plaisir de savoir que grâce à la solidarité de tous ceux qui l'aiment, Ipernity a de beaux jours devant elle !
Oui, Merci Ipernity pour tout ce que tu nous offres, et merci à toute l'équipe qui te permet, grâce au temps et à l'énergie que ses membres te consacrent, de continuer à vivre !
Voilà, Raingirl ! Je te souhaite une merveilleux weekend !

(I'm thankful for google translations - ha!) I love the way you put it " j'apporte ma pierre à l'édifice". Every piece of the puzzle is important, no matter how small.

I AM SO GRateful

You are helping me be grateful!

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Laura thank you for the information, I suppose the nearest thing here was the traditional Harvest Festival

It is how I view the holiday for myself. The harvest is a wonderful thing. I'm thankful for my bounty.