Sunday Morning Reflections - Friendships

4/3/2016

Returning from ShutterFest this past week I found myself thinking a lot about how important our friendships are. We all live busy, hectic lives. Each day we get caught up in business challenges and issues with our families - all, often outside our control. Life just gets in the way. The real links that hold our life together are those special relationships with our friends.

This week I bumped into old friends and made some wonderful new ones. I caught up to almost everybody I wanted to see this week, but keep finding posts from people who were there who I missed. Then there were people who I caught up to, Gary Altman you're one, who I caught, had five minutes, but never made it back to talk more.

This is a very short post this morning with one point - a big thanks to so many people who have come into my life; who share some of the same dreams, and who love this industry almost as much as I do. (Sorry, it's my blog and nobody gets to love the photography industry more than I do! LOL)

Wishing all of you a wonderful Sunday and time to be with real friends or people with the potential to grow into that role. Nothing beats the passion we have for our friends! As always, make it a great wrap-up to the weekend. Go for those eleven-second hugs and appreciate all the special people in your life.

"Remember you don't need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of."
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4/4/2016 08:50:55 am

Very true Skip, we ran into old friends and made new friends and can't thank them all enough for being our friends. One very important friend was YOU! Thank you so much for all the time you have put into giving back to the photo community it has not gone unnoticed, especially by Dawn and myself. We look forward to our next (and all) conversation/meeting with you. Much more to tell you, but I will save it for then.

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