ShadowMoon Base Camp

After thirteen joy-filled years, ShadowMoon Productions is closing its doors on December 31, 2008. We will continue to serve our current clients, but have withdrawn marketing and advertising in local and regional publications and services. If you have come across us through a litsting somewhere, please feel free to let us know so that we can work to have the listing removed so as not to detract from the currently active vendors in our area.

Thank you for your interest, and we wish you the very best in all your endeavors.

Welcome to the new version of the ShadowMoon Productions Base Camp. I unfortunately had to move the website to its new provider a bit before I was actually prepared to, and as a result, the site is now a bit lacking in terms of some of the information you might be seeking. I hope you will forgive the inconvenience.

In the upcoming days and weeks, I will be adding updated portfolio galleries, pricing information for various forms of portraiture, and additional links to fellow wedding-industry professionals whom I trust, and possibly even ties to my Windows Live calendar (so that you can check my availability). I am also working with a very excellent designer on an even “better” interface for this website, which work I hope to have finished in the very short term.

Existing clients, I do still have your online galleries. There has simply been some confusion about where those galleries need to be placed on this new server in order to be accessible at the same links you’ve been accustomed to using. Once we get that sorted out, I’ll restore your galleries. There’s only about 4Gb of client proof galleries from the past 3 years to upload, so please bear with me!

If you have any questions, feel free to use any of the methods on the contact page.

My best to you!

~Dawnne

I want to thank my clients for putting up with all the things that happened to us this past year. If you have forgotten, we increased everyone’s package credit by $50 as a way of saying thank-you. If you exercised your package credit to obtain the rights to your photos, that means you still have $50 credit which can be used towards prints, an album, or any of our digital production options. Thank you for remaining committed to us, for understanding the impact of the events and inconveniences we experienced over the summer, fall, and early winter.

As we move into 2008, some new issues have arisen, but most of them have already been dealt with, I’m happy to say!

• My wife, “Mrs. ShadowMoon” (who has her own blog), was laid off by her current employer at the beginning of December. Luckily, they intended to keep her employed for about another quarter, and she has already found gainful employment elsewhere! We were worried for a while that we would have to move away from the area, and in fact were looking at options that ranged from Santa Clara, CA all the way across the country to Dahlgren, VA. Obviously, we care quite pleased not to have to move out of town.
• We are, however, moving into town. The amount of property tax and the cost of services out here between Sioux Falls and Harrisburg (especially propane) prevents us from properly setting money aside for our children’s futures and our own eventual retirement. In fact, we made an offer on a house in Sioux Falls on Friday, which was accepted on Saturday, so we are now quickly making some final retouches on our current home so that we can get it sold. We are very excited about the move, and all the more pleased that it’s just in-town and not cross-country. As noted here, however, we’ll very much miss this house and northeastern Lincoln County in general.
• We were finally able to secure a new processing system for digital post-production, and I can get back to multi-tasking shortly after the computer arrives early next week. I’m especially excited about that, because it will allow me to to a bit more testing for Nik Software, which I’ve been having to hold back from due to time constraints lately. As well, thanks to my wife’s new position being a work-from-home job, we will have yet another high-end computer at the Base Camp, which will allow me to train interns and part-time employees, ultimately allowing us to serve more clients. She likes to work off a notebook at the local coffee shops for at least part of the day!
• Back in November, I formally launched Synthaetica Digitography in conjunction with my inclusion on portfolios.com. I have been getting some increased interest in my environmental and nature photography, which is quite nice. Over this year, my personal offerings will be increased on synthaetica.com, and I am to include other local photographers on the site as well.
• Lastly, in reaction to part of the conundrums we experienced this past year, I moved all my domains to a new provider. I was chagrined to move this money out of town, as I deeply believe in even small efforts to aid the local economy. However, the new provider offers far greater services for far less money, and an employee with my previous provider decided to attempt to lie about the status of some very important services instead of simply providing those services. As a result, we terminated the contract and moved. When you see this new blog format replace the current contents of shadowmoon.com, you’ll know that the move is finally complete.

For those of you who have been navigating here as shadowart.com, be advised that when shadowmoon.com is finally moved at the end of January, shadowart.com will be pointed to synthaetica.com. I will wait a month or so to make that change so that you have time to change your bookmarks.

Thank you all for your continued interest and support of ShadowMoon Productions. We are nearly booked full for weddings for next fall. Coupled with soccer season, it looks like the autumn will once again be a fast-paced, fun-filled season! Please be sure to call or use the contact form to ask about our availability for your date!

~Dawnne (Harrisburg, SD)