My lovely designer, Lisa Reichman, is (as we speak!) updating the design of my blog to accommodate our new brand and logo! Isn’t it beautiful? This is the official new name-MariahGale: Modern Portraiture. Excuse us working out the kinks for the rest of the day.

I’ll be slowly switching over the old ‘pink square’ logo to our new ‘arboreal chic’ brand over the next couple days. I’m easing myself into the transition….and marveling at all of the places my logo has ended up over the year since I’ve had it! If I miss one anywhere, feel free to let me know :)

I’ll also be switching over my domain name on my website to mariahgale.com shortly. Conveniently, you’ll still be redirected to my website when you type in mariahmphoto.com, even after the switch. I will make the official announcement when we become mariahgale.com, so get ready to update your bookmarks!

Phew! Off to go update!

Until I finish locating every single logo placement ;) ,

M

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I’m so absolutely excited to offer this to my portrait clients. I haven’t gotten around to taking pictures of it until today, but here it is. It’s the most luxurious, heavy, beautiful album on the market, and it’s all mine. Ahem, well, yours!

The cover image is printed onto a high-quality lined keepsake box to house your album in. The album pictured (my sample carried to sessions) is thinner than the actual keepsake album (5 leaves, 10 Images). The session album offered for portrait clients is in fact a 15-leaf, with 30 8×10’s featured. So imagine the album you see here, only x 3! I would have that as a sample, but trust me, it’s a bit too heavy to travel with to sessions :)

The album itself is 12×12 inches, which rivals the biggest coffee table books. Professionally bound, thick matting gives your album a weight and presence that echoes the emotion of your images:

Your favorite image is printed onto silk, and wrapped around your album cover, with a custom-imprinted title:

Isn’t it pretty? I’ll add more images of details a bit later.

 

Until Next Time,

Mariah

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I am now writing to you from one of these babies! And yes, it’s absolutely fantastic. I feel like I’m sitting in the front row of a movie theater with my 24″ monitor, and my Photoshop runs like a dream. For all of you tech people out there, I ended up going with (after much debate) the 2.8 GHz processor, 4GB RAM, and a 500 Hard Drive, which will be updated soon to a 750. And I couldn’t be happier. All of my images and software have been transferred, and now I’m playing catch-up. Thanks for all your patience and understanding!

 

In other news, I’ve recently teamed up with Boston Mamas , a blog-based website geared towards the hardworking Moms of the Boston area. Mariah M Photography is one of their featured vendors, and we’ll be gearing up for a special surprise giveaway in July, so make sure to look out for that! It’s a fabulous site, with everything you could possibly imagine- from parenting tips and tricks to local kids’ clothing buys. Go check them out! 

 Images from sessions to come :)

Mariah 

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My image is now a finalist for 411marketsource’s April Contest: “People: Models/Fashion”! Woo-hooo!

I took this last fall, of my sister, in the Queen Anne’s Lace field at Maudslay Estates. Absolutely gorgeous setting, and Meg was a class-act model for me. I put a bit of vintage processing on it, and voila! This really is one of my most favorite shots:

 If you would like to vote for this image to win the contest (oh pretty please?), you can go here:

Vote for Number 4 !

Thanks for your support!

Mariah :)

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It’s hard to capture a photograph in words, or a life, for that matter. If I were to describe a picture to you, and said “The bowl of apples perched precariously on the frame, halving their sweetness with some unknown world, while the fork sits prominently off-center on the composition, quietly, politely suggesting you make your move before their sweetness tips off into the right…”, you’d picture the photograph, but you wouldn’t feel it, see it, touch it. (You also may think I’m a huge dork for describing apple perching and forks being polite… but bear with me here, people!) The light and the way the subjects sit, the gorgeous, colorful simplicity of it all isn’t described. To see is to feel a photograph, and to photograph is, simply,  to feel a moment.

Two women, Stephanie Barnes and Maria Vettese, collaborated, while living 3191 miles apart, on snapping a shot of every one of their mornings…and now every one of their evenings. Each woman snapped her daily beginning and ending, and they put their shots together, side by side, from 3191 miles apart. 

 These photos speak so ordinarily in their subjects, but so profoundly for what they are. They say “this is how my day started”, “this is how my day ended”, “3191 miles doesn’t matter”, and “it was simple, but so incredibly beautiful”. The dirty dishes you’re not going to clean before going to bed. The bowl of apples in the morning, daring you to carry their sweetness off the frame and through your day.

(Maria on the left, Stephanie on the right). And isn’t it so beautiful that we all start our days so similarly, with the same sweet expectations, the same place settings, and the same hilariously predictable chaos at the end of it? I’m absolutely impressed at the way these truths are made accessible to the world, through the simple priviledge of being able to see and feel these moments along with these women.

 

 ”A Year of Mornings” is being published as a book now, so you can’t see most of the images once available online. But ’A Year of Evenings’ is an ongoing photoblog that is just deliciously addictive.  

Visit them here:

A Year of Mornings:

http://3191ayearofmornings.com/

A Year of Evenings:

http://3191.visualblogging.com/index.html

Oh, I am in love with these. In love. Imagine looking back on your simple, sweet life, and realizing that your friend, right beside you, though 3191 miles away, has a used grapefruit in her sink, and your stove is dirty. And it’s beautiful.

Mariah

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