Merry Christmas!

To all my readers, regular and occasional, near and far, young and old, known to me or not—thank you for reading, and for your company, your loyalty, your comments and your kindnesses in 2015. And Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Satisfactory Solstice, Frank Festivus, or [insert greetings for holiday of your choice] to you in this season. Bless you, and may God, fate, and the dice of chance let you and your loved ones thrive throughout the coming year.

All the best,

Mike

P.S. The illustration is from the Classic TOP essay "In Memory of a Shutter-Bug (A Christmas Story)."

Comments

[Stephen Scharf]

Happy Festivus!...the festival for the rest of us. ;-)

[Dillan K]

Thanks, Mike! May the Fickle Finger of Fate bless you, and your family as well! Merry Christmas, sir!

[Peter Williams]

Merry Christmas to you too Mike :-)

[Terence Morrissey]

Merry Christmas Mike.

[Ctein]

Dear Mike,

And, here, the Swag Tree ('cause, really, that's what they should be called) at Chez Ctein, for your delectation:

pax / Ctein

[Ned Bunnell]

Happy Holidays and hope you're enjoying your first Christmas in your new home, Mike!

[Robert Roaldi]

And to you.

[Trecento]

Merry Christmas Mike!
Thanks to your good blogging, and direct reviews and indirect recommendations, today I've been given a new lens,* a newish camera, and a photo book (Early Color, by Saul Leitner, now in it's 5th printing!) And, I'm pretty sure you got affiliate credit for three of the four :) Best wishes all around.

*the new Panasonic 42.5/1.7, a swift and pretty little thing.

[Chuck Albertson]

...and to yourself. Keep up the good work in 2016. With all I have to do, I usually make a practice of checking TOP first thing, and you rarely disappoint.

[M. Guarini]

Thanks Mike, happy Holydays to you, your family and friends.

[Thomas Paris]

All the best to everyone in this festive season and beyond.
And big thanks to you Mike, for all you've given us. And that's a lot.

[Pat Trent]

Merry Christmas to you and Butters.

[Geoff Wittig]

Merry Christmas to all;
Taken Christmas Eve, freakishly warm at 70+ degrees wearing shirtsleeves in Virginia at 9 pm:

[Richard Ripley]

Merry Christmas to you Mike and yours!

Best wishes,

Richard

[Kenneth Tanaka]

Best of the Season to you, also, Mike, and to all my fellow TOP readers.

Holiday Mime, Chicago 2010
Kodachrome 64

[Michael Bearman]

Your present sent by paypal, Mike.

[Sarge]

Maligayang Pasko! Mike and to my fellow TOP readers.

Traditional Christmas lantern (parol) made of capiz (scallop) shells. Manila, 2014

[Tom]

Merry Christmas to you and yours Mike. Your first December in NY is a rather warm one. Here's an image from the last warm December in western NY. Note rain drops on the window. Taken with a 50mm f/1.4 Super Takumar BTW (8 element version).

Tom

[Michael Perini]

Mike,
Have a wonderful Christmas in your new Home.
May it be Happy, Peaceful, and Restorative.
Thank you for another wonderful year of TOP.
Michael

[Jack]

Happy hollydaze (late) and New Year (early).

[Hans Berkhout]

Best to you and S for 2016

No need though for the ?default? blessings and God from my end

[Mani Sitaraman]

Merry Christmas from Singapore!!!

[Jack]

We ceased participating in the "feed the greed" game a while back, but will accept peace and quiet at anytime for any reason.

I wish that on all who want it, now & in the new year.

Cheers