You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

 

So... what gives FotoFink?  You take these great photos of our girls wearing Santa hats, but then there's no way to get them before Christmas?  You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch....

Actually- there is a way.  If anyone is dying to get the photos before Christmas, we can do that.  Instead of ordering from the website though, contact me- either at sfinkernagel@hotmail.com, or 570-350-3677.  We can figure out payment, and I can have them printed locally in an hour.  If there is no rush, then of course you can order from the website, as always.

Besides all of that, let me extend a warm welcome to the players and parents from GSA's 8th grade girls basketball team!  One connection led to another, and your coach helped set up this shoot, and some game/action shots should follow as well.  Hopefully everyone enjoys the photos, and if you are new to the world of FotoFink, here are a few FAQs to enhance your experience.

Cool photos!  How can I buy some?  Thanks for asking- that's actually my favorite question!  As you browse, every photo has  "buy" button nearby.  Click it, and you are a few credit card digits away from photos in the mail.

Can I get the jpg files?  Yes.  After you click buy, you will see a tab for downloads.  You can purchase a digital copy of the file from there.

But.... I didn't want to pay.....  I'm enjoying these questions less and less.  Actually, there are lots of ways to share and enjoy without the exchange of funds.  You can share links to the galleries and individual shots with as many people as you'd like.  You can download a low-res copy that will post nicely onto facebook, twitter, etc.  Read the 6th paragraph of this post for details.  Remember to credit the amazing photographer and you'll have no bad karma issues.

Cool!  More?  Yup.  I was at a game last weekend for about one quarter, and I plan to be at more.  Game shots will follow as I have time to take them and get them processed for posting.  The more interest I sense, the more photos I can justify taking.  (That may have been too subtle.... let me be more clear, for those of us without a private school education- If the photos sell well, I will take more)

I like you FotoFink- how can I enjoy this experience even more?  Thanks honey.  I'll be a little late for dinner tonight.  If you are actually wondering this.... there are lots of 12 step programs that can help.  Short of that, you can join our facebook group, follow us on Twitter, and if I can ever figure out google+, I suppose you can hang out with me there.  Not yet though.  You can read some old blog posts too- sometimes they are funny.

All kidding aside- This was a fun shoot.  Parents- you should be proud of your girls- they were fun, involved, and incredibly polite as the shoot progressed.  A few of the shots spilled out over the background, but we'll blame the tight space in the library for that.  Fun shoots tend to provide the best shots- and I think these photos confirm that.

One more brief tidbit-  If you played the Grinch song from the first link, or if you've ever seen the TV show (is there anyone who hasn't?) you know that the late Thurl Ravenscroft had an amazing voice- amazing to the point that its hard to imagine anyone else singing that.  Did you know, however, that Thurl was also the voice of Tony the Tiger?  Characters from the Haunted Mansion in Disney world?  RIP Thurl- you are missed.

Back to some photos?  Sure.

Good Shepherd Team and Individual

All of FotoFink

Enjoy!

Buddy Holly

A few quick thoughts-

Editing photos is tedious at best.  Sitting in front of the computer, look, assess, click, repeat...  a normal mind tends to wander.  Mine too.  This time, I couldn't get this song out of my head.

I wonder why?

Woo Eee Ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly.....

Oh Oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore.....

Mary Tyler Moore may be a stretch... but I had to work with the Buddy Holly reference.  Just go with it-  Poetic License and all.

Just a quick post today.  My marketing department advises me that I will probably blog more if the posts are shorter.  Hard to argue that.

Photos from the Cross and Crown game are posting now- 286 Varsity photos are here.

JV & Freshboys to follow.

The Pretender

OK....  7 1/2 months, and no blog posts?  WTFFF?  (where's the fun, FotoFink)  Are you the blogger, or just the pretender?  All good questions.

So really- why the gap?  I don't know for sure- only that I just wasn't feeling it for a while.  In the very early days of FotoFink, it became customary for me to write a bit on the "header" of each gallery.  While quick and easy, that was really not enough for all the bloviating I was compelled to do.  The blog was born, and became an editorial outlet.  For a while, every shoot had an accompanying blog post- full of the wit and wisdom of FotoFink.  The blog, however, was always the least important piece of the FotoFink puzzle- after all, there was no immediate financial reward, it was hard to justify taking the time to blog when I had shoot after shoot of photos to edit, so when time was short, the blog was the first to go.  I tried, for a time, to blog once a week, saying a little something about all of the shoots for the week, and while it was ok from a time management perspective....  the blog posts felt uninspired, almost forced.  The facebook group was picking up some of the slack as far as comments on some of the photos, and with nearly 700 members there, blogging for 6 followers seemed.... unimportant.

So what now?  I'm still not sure.  While FotoFink continues to grow as a business, most of you realize that it is much more than that to me- this feels like at least a community, and usually more of a family.  My hope is that the blog can reinforce that feeling in some way.  As far as posting frequency goes- I don't make promises I can't break.  (that's a second music clip...  it would seem I owe you a few after all that time away.  Feel free to skip over the first 30 seconds....  Marie looks good, but doofus does all the talking.)  I hope to do this when I feel inspired, and I hope that is often.  A colleague has been offering some marketing advice, which, thus far, has been- "tweet".  I am sure this blog will fit into the strategy at some point also.  More meetings are planned, decisions will be forthcoming.  One thing is for sure- I like the music references.  That will have to continue.  Feel free to make requests- they will likely be ignored.

Unrelated to photography in any way but very cool regardless-  Did you see any of the 300 showings of this last weekend?  Wow.  Palladia is rapidly becoming a favorite channel.  If I can ever get Mrs. FotoFink to turn the food shows off, I can usually enjoy whatever they have on.  But this..... Does it get any better than Crosby, Stills and Nash helping Jackson Browne on The Pretender?  Paul Simon, David Crosby and Graham Nash performing Here Comes the Sun in tribute to George Harrison?  Stevie Wonder and John Legend doing MJ's The Way You Make Me Feel?  (you make the call-  what happens at 1:40 of that clip?  Technical difficulties?  Forget the words?  Too choked up to continue?  All I know for sure is he didn't lose sight of the lyric sheet...) Jeff Beck accompanying Stevie Wonder on Superstition?  More Jeff Beck, as he plays as Sting sings People Get Ready?  U2 starting to play Gimme Shelter, and guess who struts out to help?  I had a hard time looking away.

Ok-  we are even now.

A fall recap seems foolish at this point- lets pretend all of that never happened.  You folks in West Pittson can relate to that.  Some of my Tunkhannock friends too.  Instead, lets look ahead-  what's coming up this winter?

Basketball- Wilkes Men and Women.  Holy Redeemer Boys and Girls.  Wyoming Area Girls.  Freshmen, JV and Varsity for all.

Wrestling- Wilkes Men.

Hockey- On ice.  They way Lord Stanley intended.  Holy Redeemer has asked for some shots, and here is their first gallery.  Nice to be shooting hockey again.

Skiing-  Holy Redeemer ski club.  Hopefully Snoooo Mountain manages to open, and we will get some shots from the hill on Friday nights.  Those were fun last year.  Bernie (Mojo) K was just telling me how much he liked this shot.

Weddings-  We are booked for the Ball Ball in February.  Lots more when the weather warms.

Anything else you want shot?  Send me a note.  We'll try....

Some recent work?  Glad you asked....

HR Girls T&I

Engagement shots at Grey Towers in Milford (great location!!)

Where to this week?  Another good question.....

Looks like a private session for some Christmas photos on Sunday.  HR Girls Basketball on Friday, followed by HR Hockey Friday night.

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