Sweet! Site is back!

Okay, so part one of two is up. The website has been loaded (mostly). There may be a few things here or there that are out of place, but the website is online!

Blog to follow soon...

Website is Currently Down...

Okay, so it's that horrible time. The website is down. Our hosting is repropagating all of the images and new content for an unknown amount of time.

If our website was a phone in help service, you'd hear "Thank you for contacting Fancy Fin Photography. We are sorry, but all services are currently busy. Please hold until the next available webpage appears. You are very important to us."

Okay, again, the good news is that we'll have a newly updated website and blog that will be much cooler than our old site. So check back and I'll let everyone know when the site is back up.

"Thanks for holding, your visit is very important to us...." :)

Our Website may go down for a little bit...

Okay, so there is good news, and there is bad news.

Bad News: Our site may go down temporarily in the next couple of days. Hopefully not lasting more than 24 hours at a time. Hopefully....*Crosses fingers*

Good News: The reason why it'll go down once or twice will be to update the website with the new design and layout Raeleen has been working so hard on. Also, we'll be putting up a new slightly fancier blog!

So there's the trade off. We have to take a bit of downtime to get out the awesome designs we've been working on (especially Rae).

In the meantime, I'll try and keep everyone updated here when our site will be officially up and down. As of recently, it's still up, I don't know exactly when it'll go down though, or when it'll be back up. Keep posted....

Oh, and Happy almost Turkey Day!

Halloween Party!

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. Rae and I got all "done up" in 20s style. Raeleen looked especially amazing as a flapper. Check out the second shot with Rae and our friend Sue/Sarah Palin :)

Happy Holidays everyone!

Above photo credit goes to our friend Biz. Nice angle!

All images (c) Fancy Fin Photography 2008. See our work at
http://www.fancyfinphotography.com/

Will you be my Pumpkin?

It's less than a week now until Halloween and Raeleen and I went to Fall City Farms to go Pumpkin pickin'. We started this tradition last year after we shot Sue and Ryan's wedding and found out that the farm had a few pumpkin patches. What an awesome farm!

Later that evening we ended up with some friends for some pumpkin carvin'!

Beer, candy, pumpkins and cheesy horror movies. What a night :)

Here it is! The one. Rae and Andy's pumpkin 2009! Check out those wicked warts :)

I know most of you think I'm seriously packing muscle under the jacket, but this 40 pounder caught my breathe a bit. I'll definitely be working on my pumpkin reps for next year.

Isn't it cute? Rae and I spotted this little guy to add an extra touch of season to the front door.

I had less trouble with the little guy. See that? One hand...

I think this one is a bat. Kinda crazy, but cool :)

"Under the Goardwalk"

One of the two dogs of the farm. Right before this shot he (or she?) was going to town on this piece of corn.

Sunflower stalks.

Here's Rae carving out Andy's shark design. Most of the gang went with spiders, ghosts, scary and fun faces. Rae and I went with the Shark theme. Toothy great white coming out of the waves!

And the final product for the night...

Check out that beast!

All images (c) Fancy Fin Photography 2008. See our work at
http://www.fancyfinphotography.com/

Our new tomato plant!

Okay, so as cheesy as this post must sound, Rae and I have to tell everyone about our sad new tomato plant. Rae's best friend just moved to Colorado and asked us to adopt her tomato plant. The plant looks a little worn and has definitely seen better days, but we're hoping it'll pull through.

The new addition to the studio is just outside the showroom and now has a nice view of Seattle and Lake Washington :)

Here are some shots... Have a look!

Okay, and here are two shots that Rae took of some of our flowering plants on the patio. Don't ask me the name of them, but I think they look pretty :)

All images (c) Fancy Fin Photography 2008. See our work at
http://www.fancyfinphotography.com/

Reviews on Evening Magazine

I want to thank everyone for your wonderful reviews on the Best of Washington city voter site. It brings Raeleen and I great joy to hear everyone's wonderful comments. We cannot thank you enough for how special you've made us feel.

Thank you!

Vote for Fancy Fin Photography on Evening Magazine!

Hey guys and gals! I just wanted to let you all know that Rae and I are in the Evening Magazine: Best of Western Washington site and we're competing for Best Wedding Photographer. It is so much fun to be a part of a friendly competition that shows our work to so many people. Anyway, if you get a chance we'd love for you to stop by the site and give your favorite photographers a VOTE! :)

Plus, it's always nice to hear good things about us if you decide to give Rae and I a quick review ;)

Thanks!

Website Update!

Just wanted to let you all know that we've updated the website a little. There is a new wedding slideshow in our portfolio page: Andrea and Matt's wedding. Andrea was Elizabeth's (another bride from our portfolio) maid of honor and visa versa. They had an awesome wedding at the UW Botanical Gardens. If you get a chance, check it out. I'll blog about their wedding soon, too, so keep an eye on that.

Website update!

Rae just finished cranking out a new slideshow wedding for our portfolio! She is awesome. The update is of Holly and Lo's wedding just outside of Leavenworth.

Such a beautiful wedding. I'll be blogging about it soon, so keep posted :)

New Camera!!! Nikon D3

Okay, so to the untrained eye, this perhaps means nothing. But to Raeleen and I, it means a significant upgrade in equipment. The Nikon D3 is an amazing camera that is the top of the line right now for photographers. Winning awards for the Camera of the Year, it is definitely something to take a look at. It has incredible low light capabilities and will prove to be a wonderful addition to our current equipment lineup. Here's a quick shot of the new camera!

World Naked Gardening Day

Saturday, May 3rd was World Naked Gardening Day. Here is Raeleen and I standing with our two brand new planted pots for our front porch. Hope you all had a great Naked Gardening Day! :)

You can see our Wedding Photography website at http://www.fancyfinphotography.com/

Green Festival

Raeleen and I went to the GreenFest this year. It was in Seattle at the convention center and had all sorts of information on sustainable resources. Everything from recycled papers to hemp milk, and everything inbetween. It was a great experience and a fun opportunity to see who in Seattle is addressing the movement towards sustainable energy and resources.

These computers were running purely off of bicycle power. I'm not saying that I'd ever hook my bike up to my computer to edit weddings, but it's kind of a cool thought.

This was just funny, so I thought I'd share... :)

All images (c) Fancy Fin Photography 2008. See our work at http://www.fancyfinphotography.com/

NW Bridal Showcase - Jan. 19th and 20th, 2008

Our first bridal show! After shooting weddings for two years now, and starting into our 3rd, Rae and I signed up for our first wedding show. Our booth got a lot of attention and we had a great time. It's nice to meet a lot of new people in the industry and get an opportunity to talk with a lot of newly engaged couples. Here are a couple of shots of the booth.

All images (c) Fancy Fin Photography 2008. See our work at
http://www.fancyfinphotography.com/

First Post!

Hello, everyone (or rather anyone) whose reading! Raeleen and I are Seattle Wedding Photographers and decided to put up a little blog to share some of our fun weddings, engagement sessions, and give us some space to blab a bit :)

I'll be posting our last wedding and the last engagement session we did and that should kick off our Blog! If you'd like to check out our website, you can view it at www.fancyfinphotography.com

Thanks again, and we'll talk to you soon!