Just like summer gives way to fall, and fall gives way to winter, Thanksgiving gives way to the shopping holiday rush. Like many previous years the economy is a factor, and people are concerned about finances, and like many years the camera industry is less affected then many others industries. The reason? People still take vacations and have kids and pets and milestone moments in their lives that need validation and remembering. Kids still graduate, (though maybe not as smart as in the past) people still get married, babies are still being born, and memories are still being remembered with the help of silver halide chemical emulsions (thought not as common as in the past) or in the form of pixels and memory cards, CD's and DVD's. Newer technologies evolve and push the older ones out of the way faster than Darwin could have ever dreamed. Ordinary people strive to be near the leading edge of the those emergent technologies. For proof just look at cellphones and computers as other "today's hot ticket, yesterday's news" segments that are eating themselves like the Ouroborus, Socratic snake.
The cycle and the circle are unbroken, everything is cyclical; morning, afternoon ,evening, night..., summer, fall, winter spring, summer..., climate..., birth, life, death..., the tides, the rotations of planets, stars, galaxies and the Cosmos. Truly what comes around goes around, and simple man is not in control or capable of controlling the forces of nature and time.
Have a great post Thanksgiving Holiday season, and we'll all meet here again after another 365 more rotations of the planet and another rotation of the sun and do it all over again. Really. I promise.
Chuck Pace ©2009 
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