Holiday Pics

[Mr Standfast]

and Elves Live!

 

oh dear....

[Liam Bunce]

Hi Edo I have sold several of Gambia, Italy and Southern Ireland, quite a good return for them also.

[John Mitchell]

10 hours ago, Ed Rooney said:

 

But, John . . . Elves Lives Matter too. 

 

Don't get me wrong. I fully support their First Amendment rights. 😁

 

BTW, I knew right away what you meant by "holiday pics," so I guess Canucks are on the same page in that regard.

[Bryan]

Not taken on the actual day so not sure if it meets Edo's strict requirements, but I recall a sale concerning Xmas lights in somebody's garden. No elves involved.

 

I do have some pumpkin pics and one of spidery Halloween decorations, but no interested buyers.

 

 

Edited February 15, 2021 by Bryan

[John Mitchell]

21 minutes ago, Bryan said:

Not taken on the actual day so not sure if it meets Edo's strict requirements, but I recall a sale concerning Xmas lights in somebody's garden. No elves involved.

 

I do have some pumpkin pics and one of spidery Halloween decorations, but no interested buyers.

 

 

 

As mentioned above, my Halloween pics are my best-selling "holiday" pics by far. This one, shot on a walk around my hood, licensed for $$$ much to my surprise. When I was a kid living in London during the 50's, I don't remember Halloween being celebrated. I do recall Guy Fawkes Day being a big deal, though.

 

[Bryan]

7 hours ago, John Mitchell said:

 

As mentioned above, my Halloween pics are my best-selling "holiday" pics by far. This one, shot on a walk around my hood, licensed for $$$ much to my surprise. When I was a kid living in London during the 50's, I don't remember Halloween being celebrated. I do recall Guy Fawkes Day being a big deal, though.

 

 

Useful that John, made me rethink some of my keywords of USA Halloween images !

[Thyrsis]

Both of these firework night themed images have sold a few times each. They were set up studio shots though.

[Avpics]

6 hours ago, Bryan said:

 

Useful that John, made me rethink some of my keywords of USA Halloween images !

Potato/tomato. I've sold a number of 'holiday' events images but I too hadn't thought to add that as a keyword. Happy holidays.

 

[John Mitchell]

1 hour ago, Avpics said:

Potato/tomato. I've sold a number of 'holiday' events images but I too hadn't thought to add that as a keyword. Happy holidays.

 

 

That might double as a Halloween image over here. 😎

[John Mitchell]

I've had a few Chinese New Year images license. It's a big deal in Vancouver.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 15, 2021 by John Mitchell

[Betty LaRue]

On 12/02/2021 at 09:29, Mr Standfast said:

Oh.... Well mine were "vacation" then.

 

Edo, have we ever discussed the British names for meals? Mind you that would take us well off topic, maybe after tea....

 

😉

 

I prefer iced tea, myself.  oh! You mean lunch and supper? Or dinner? Or brunch? I don’t eat breakfast, but then y’all do have that and lunch, doncha?

I’m not sure anybody around here has had “tea” as you mean it since Boston.....I think....maybe...The south likes sweet tea.

[Ed Rooney]

"Anyway . . . do you all snap a lot of pictures on holidays? I did at first, then I stopped because they didn't sell. Then they started to sell. Hmm. Do your holiday pics sell?"

 

That's my OP with the original question asked. The problem is the common term for a special day of remembrance set aside to honour someone or some event that results in a day off from work. So, Christmas, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Labor Day and such in the US. In the UK there's Good Friday and Boxing Day. 

 

The term used in the UK for these special days is, as far as I know, a Bank Holiday. In America, we say Vacation to mean someone's period of paid leave from a job. The British say Holiday. And that seems to be the core of the confusion: The British use the word Holiday to mean two different things. 

 

Betty, there have been so many changes in eating habits in the past 20 or 30 years that most peoples' meal traditions have changed, both what we eat and when we eat. You don't eat breakfast? Are you doing a 16/8 intermittent fasting program? Hmm, I don't eat dinner. I eat just breakfast and lunch. I don't snack or drink soft drinks either.

 

Over here, the tradition used to be breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. In the past, I have had afternoon tea, cream tea, and high tea (including high tea at the Savoy). Tea in the UK is a HUGH, complex subject with a rich history, and not for a misplaced Yank like me to explain.

[Allan Bell]

 

I am going against the grain Edo. Breakfast 7.00 - 8.30am, Dinner 12.00 - 1.30pm, Tea 6.00 - 6.30pm. Do not do Lunch unless on holiday.

 

Allan

 

[spacecadet]

35 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said:

a Bank Holiday.

Or just "public holiday". As you've gathered, "holiday" is going away and lounging around on a beach or looking at cathedrals. Or drinking beer, one of my favourite definitions.

When I was little we had "dinner" at 1300 and "tea" in the evening. They still do in the north of England and when Ed hears it, it may be what's meant, unless it's said in a bar where beer is £7 a pint by someone with a ridiculous beard ( which mine and Ed's aren't). But for half my life I've said "lunch" and "dinner".

Posh folks who've been to Oxbridge say "vac" to mean the summer when they're not at university but off quaffing pink Grenache in Provence or shooting swans or whatever. That's not fair, they don't shoot swans, they all belong to the Queen, except for a few on the Thames, but that's another story. Pheasants. Or grouse.

Edited February 17, 2021 by spacecadet

[Avpics]

30 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said:

The term used in the UK for these special days is, as far as I know, a Bank Holiday. In America, we say Vacation to mean someone's period of paid leave from a job. The British say Holiday. And that seems to be the core of the confusion: The British use the word Holiday to mean two different things. 

In normal conversation we use holiday as vacation, and very rarely for anything else. Christmas is Christmas, Easter is Easter etc, The only dates that are perhaps more commonly referred to as bank holidays are those in May and August which have less 'purpose'.

[Stokie]

Yes, I have dinner at lunch time and tea at dinner time!!

 

John.

[spacecadet]

2 hours ago, spacecadet said:

Or grouse.

That wasn't an invitation btw.

[Ed Rooney]

3 hours ago, Allan Bell said:

 

I am going against the grain Edo. Breakfast 7.00 - 8.30am, Dinner 12.00 - 1.30pm, Tea 6.00 - 6.30pm. Do not do Lunch unless on holiday.

 

Allan

 

 

On holiday? Or on a bank holiday? 🤪

[Avpics]

Next topic; staycation........

[Thyrsis]

Lunch or dinner and dinner or tea are pretty much a north/ south thing in the UK.

 

I moved south quite young and we have lunch at about 1pm and dinner at  about 7pm.

My brother who is very much a northerner has dinner at lunchtime and tea at dinnertime!!

[Alan Beastall]

 

Great news, Easter around the corner, got me passports and I'am off. I wish.

 

 

Edited February 17, 2021 by Alan Beastall

[Allan Bell]

1 hour ago, Ed Rooney said:

 

On holiday? Or on a bank holiday? 🤪

 

For sake of clarity. NOT bank holiday.😊

 

Allan

 

[Allan Bell]

1 hour ago, Thyrsis said:

Lunch or dinner and dinner or tea are pretty much a north/ south thing in the UK.

 

I moved south quite young and we have lunch at about 1pm and dinner at  about 7pm.

My brother who is very much a northerner has dinner at lunchtime and tea at dinnertime!!

 

You guessed it. I am a northerner. It was always so and will be forever so.

 

Allan

 

[Marianne]

If you're talking about holidays such as Christmas, etc, which is what I thought initially until I saw the answers here, my early portfolio did well with images from Mardi Gras.  Pi Day was also a decent seller. And Fourth of July. Not so much Christmas and Easter, a trickle of sales, though I have a lot more images shot for those holidays. In recent years, Fourth of July did best, but travel far and away is my best seller here.

 

I uploaded about 30 Christmas illustrations last year and a lot of Easter illustrations the year before. Also New Years. None of them sold, nor were any of them even zoomed. Illustrations are not my strong suit but I'm always up for trying new things and at they did OK on POD sites for cards and gift items. It's a question of finding the right market I guess.

 

And playing to your strengths, which for me seems to be travel which I believe is a strong market for Alamy too.

 

Since some people equated "holiday" with "travel," since 2014, 70% of my sales have been travel, before that 55% were and I had a fair amount of concept "holiday" sales in those earlier years. In the past 12 months, despite Covid, 92% of my sales were travel images, and number of sales increased in 2020 over 2019, though revenue decreased by 58%. Mostly US travel with a strong showing from one trip to Edinburgh in 2007, and few other European sales. East coast, out west and midwest all sell here. Small towns and cities. Out of the way places and well known travel destinations. 

 

 

Edited February 17, 2021 by Marianne

[Betty LaRue]

15 hours ago, Ed Rooney said:

"Anyway . . . do you all snap a lot of pictures on holidays? I did at first, then I stopped because they didn't sell. Then they started to sell. Hmm. Do your holiday pics sell?"

 

That's my OP with the original question asked. The problem is the common term for a special day of remembrance set aside to honour someone or some event that results in a day off from work. So, Christmas, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Labor Day and such in the US. In the UK there's Good Friday and Boxing Day. 

 

The term used in the UK for these special days is, as far as I know, a Bank Holiday. In America, we say Vacation to mean someone's period of paid leave from a job. The British say Holiday. And that seems to be the core of the confusion: The British use the word Holiday to mean two different things. 

 

Betty, there have been so many changes in eating habits in the past 20 or 30 years that most peoples' meal traditions have changed, both what we eat and when we eat. You don't eat breakfast? Are you doing a 16/8 intermittent fasting program? Hmm, I don't eat dinner. I eat just breakfast and lunch. I don't snack or drink soft drinks either.

 

Over here, the tradition used to be breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. In the past, I have had afternoon tea, cream tea, and high tea (including high tea at the Savoy). Tea in the UK is a HUGH, complex subject with a rich history, and not for a misplaced Yank like me to explain.

Ed, I am just not hungry until noon. Never have been since I grew up.  I don’t believe in eating a meal if I’m not hungry...that’s just adding calories for no reason. I used to eat light at lunch then have a nice dinner. Things are going a bit haywire with me, my stomach digestion has slowed to a crawl. So for a few months, for the most part, I’m eating more at lunch, very light at dinner so I don’t go to bed with a full stomach which bothers me.

That’s why I had a sonogram of my pancreas, liver and gall bladder yesterday. My pancreas is producing Lipase X9 of normal. Whatever that indicates. I think that’s why I’m losing a little bit of weight, my stomach stays full too long so I don’t feel hunger as often.