Articles With Keyword 'holiday'

Merry Christmas to all our members, readers, family and friends.

Hope your day is full of family, faith, and fellowship and that the true meaning of the season and holiday are never lost in the hustle and bustle of the distractions.

Thank you to everyone for making this community so much fun to operate.

Once again, it's the fourth Thursday in November, when we here in the USA celebrate Thanksgiving... A time for reflecting on all that we have (mostly non-material) and the wonderful blessings God has given to us.

A time for family, football, feasting and fun!

And it never hurts to be thankful. No matter where you are in the world!

So...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

Today is the day we remember all our fathers (in the US and other parts of the world). So to all the dads, daddies, pops, pas, and fathers on our site, wherever you are, I wish you all a wonderful and Happy Father's Day!!!

-- And I hope you're thinking of your own father and take a moment to let him know how much he means to you!

With about 90 minutes to spare here in the Eastern US Time Zone, I want to wish all the moms on our site as well as all the moms of all our members a very happy Mother's Day.

I enjoyed a nice day with my wife and family and lost a good deal of sleep the previous night working on a special video project for my church for Mother's Day -- darn rendering was taking forever. So I missed the POTD postings as well as posting this. But the POTD for today are now active, our usual collection of floral shots in honor of the holiday. Regular POTD will return tomorrow.

Thanks again for your patience!

Looking for the right gift for a fellow photographer? Or need some ideas of what to put on your own wishlist? Check out our gift guide of a some of the cooler products, software and accessories for your studio.

If you’re like me, when your wife or loved one comes up to you and wants to know what to get you for Christmas, you have no idea what to say. Either our hobby is too expensive, we get everything we want throughout the year anyway, or we just forget about some of the neat and functional gadgets that might make our hobby or vocation just a little bit more fun.

So to that end, photographyvoice.com presents some of the cooler tools and devices out there that you might consider jotting down on your Christmas wishlist. If you’ve not been too naughty that is! [MORE]

To our our members and readers in the USA, I just want to say have a safe and wonderful and very happy Thanksgiving Day!

Things in this country have been better, but they've certainly been a lot worse and we still have much to be thankful for.

I am thankful for all of you who visit this site daily, contribute, encourage others and make this worth doing.

For the rest of you around the world who are not observing this day, take a moment to be thankful for all you have (and for all you don't). We should all count our blessing each and every day, no matter where we live, and remember He Who has so richly blessed us.

Enjoy the day!

Kevin

Today is the day we in America honor all the moms in our life: our wives, daughters with children, and our own mommies. So to all the mothers/mums/moms of photographyvoice.com, old and young, we thank you for doing one of the most important jobs a person can do! May your day today be a blessed one, full of love and joy.

And to my own lovely wife, Cristi. Thank you for our two children and the love you have given them (and me) all these years! You've done a wonderful job! [MORE]

From my personal family to our photographyvoice.com family, I want to wish you all a wonderful Easter this year. In doing so, I leave you with this hope.

"He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God." - 1 Peter 1:20-21

For Christians we are closing in on "Easter" Sunday, better named Resurrection Sunday, the day we observe that Christ arose from His earthly tomb, defeated death, and provided a means of salvation after this life to all those who believe His truth.

Growing up, I'd always heard that so-called "Good Friday" was the observance of the day when Christ was crucified and buried. Most prophecies of this historical event always just said "three day", meaning part of Friday, Saturday and Sunday counted as "three days".

But Jesus Himself said this as recorded in Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

You cannot get three days and three night from a Good Friday observance, but you do from Thursday. Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Friday day, Saturday day, and part of Sunday day fulfills this properly.

Also if you factor in that the Jewish Passover lambs were brought in the Sunday before (Palm Sunday) and observed four days for spot and blemish, this means they were sacrificed on Thursday as well. As Christ is the final Passover Lamb, this is completely fitting.

Finally, as it was Passover, the Jews had an additional High Sabbath which would have been on Friday before the weekly Saturday Sabbath. No work could have been performed on such a Holy day, including the burial and tending to His body.

So there's a brief lesson as we observe the real reason for the "Easter" holiday. It's amazing how many traditions are actually contrary to truth when you check them out.

However you spend Easter, I hope you find time to be in church. Worshipping if you're a Christian. Learning if you're not yet.

May God bless you this season!