History was made on Saturday May 25, 2019: Vashon Island High School Boys Soccer first place in Washington state WIAA Division 1A soccer! Vashon Vultures Lacrosse first place in Washington High School Boys Varsity Lacrosse!
Updated September 21, 2018: the new Vashon Island High School track and field
Finished, with video: Engels Car Show 2018
New additions to The FinchHaven Archives
Two Walkabouts: Fall Color 2017
Updated with stills: Miss Thriftway U-60 Unlimited Hydro Live Fire-up 2015
Two Walkabouts: Lisabeula, Vashon Island and The North End Ferry Dock, Vashon Island
About me:
About me: although I've been taking photos since I was seven or eight in Southern California (my father was a reporter/photographer for a SoCal newspaper, the Pasadena Star-News in the 1950s) I didn't get really serious about my own photography until I was in college at Cal State Long Beach, where I was an art major.
There I worked on the Art Gallery crew and as a Graduate Assistant, where I became responsible for all the Art Gallery graphic design (anyone remember blue-line board and Letraset?) for mailers and catalogs, and all the photography of the shows, both during installation and of the finished show after it was installed and lit.
Kept shooting photos as I became a potter in the early 1970's and moved to Seattle (1975) and later to Vashon Island (1979).
Started my first web site in 1995 and set up my domain name, finchhaven.com, in 1998.
Went digital in about 1999-2000 with a Sony Mavica; then a Canon Powershot Pro 90 IS; now two Canon bodies (a 5D Mk 2 and a 1D Mk 4) and three L-series lenses. Most recently added a Canon Cinema EOS C100 when I got tired of trying to coax video out of the 5D Mk 2.
Post-processing entirely in the Adobe Creative Cloud via Lightroom CC 2015 on a Win 7 box I custom-built myself from parts.
My original web site is here: www.FinchHaven.com and has Vashon Island celebrations and Vashon Island High School sports (and other Vashon youth sports) going back to about 2000.
My video work is on YouTube here: TheFinchHaven
I'm on Twitter as @FinchHaven here: FinchHaven Photos. Follow me for current updates on what I'm shooting and what I've just put up here.
And I'm on Facebook here as John Sage and here as FinchHaven Digital Photography (it's Facebook, so of course you'll have to be on Facebook yourself and log in...)
As of August, 2011, "FinchHaven" is a registered trademark: FinchHavenâ„¢
Ordering online, Cropping, and Special orders:
Ordering:
Ordering online directly through SmugMug should be pretty painless. That's the whole idea ;)
One note: I've just received a photo sample pack, and I'd say you should go with the finish "Luster" unless you have a specific reason not to. It's very nice. "Glossy" is pretty ... glossy.
A note on cropping:
I no longer crop my photos to fit the standard 4x6 or 5x7 paper sizes. I crop my photos to make the strongest image possible.
When you order reprints you have the choice to accept my cropping, or crop to a standard paper size.
Think about your choice carefully; if you re-crop my photos to fill a standard paper size the results may not be what you expect and you will likely lose at least part of the photo I shot.
Special orders:
You can special-order any photography from my old web site www.FinchHaven.com to be printed through the professional photo printing lab used by SmugMug.
High-quality custom printing in a myriad of photo sizes and finish styles. Hey! Get a photo of your kid on the back of a set of playing cards!
Simply find the photo(s) you're interested in from www.FinchHaven.com and email me a list to jsage@finchhaven.com, and I'll put them up here in your own custom folder.
OR
I can put an entire event from my old web site up here on SmugMug.
Say you and your relatives would like to be able to look at, and order photos from, my Vashon Island High School Homecoming Parade 2016 photography.
Email me with the name of the event or a link to it, and I can migrate it over here to SmugMug.