Our beautiful venue was the Boston Studios, run by Fabrizio Cacciatore:

The natural light in the studio was gorgeous, with floor-to-ceiling windows and rustic floors:

Cheryl doing’ her thang (with essential Starbucks and Hershey’s kisses):

More images of the venue (and the gift bags):

Cheryl demonstrated a newborn shoot for the group. We were so grateful to have our newborn model, 2-week-old Gracie (see her posing on the beanbag down there?):

Find the newborn model!:

Here’s Mackenzie, one of our models, being photographed at our instructional hands-on shoot. We had around 20 shoots going on at the same time (another in the background), and they all had so much fun, amid the chaos!

I shot like a madwoman, trying to make it around to all of my clients and models that came. Kim sent me this image she took- yours truly, showing off one of my shots that I’ll post tomorrow:

Check out the pose on this one! The venue was in a cluster of old mill buildings, and we were able to take advantage of the ‘urban’ locations surrounding it. You’ll be amazed at the shots we got here:

Finally, the staff, from left to right, Kristie Serra, Myself, Cheryl Muhr, Joyce Smith, and Jaleen Lessard:

We’re missing Heather Crowder, another member of our staff that had to catch a plane back to Annapolis before the group shot! Image taken by Todd Muhr, Cheryl’s husband.

I have so many images of our models, as I was instructionally shooting as well. I’ll post those up tomorrow, so stay tuned to see all the beautiful faces we photographed! THANK YOU again to all of our models. Your presence made such a positive difference.

 Until next Time,

MG

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 mariahgale.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

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

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 :)

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

 This little article is all about shooting your kids on the beach, which I can appreciate. Though nothing can compare to professional photos, sometimes you just want to capture your own kids- getting sandy, salty, happy, and sunny. Though as every parent with a camera knows, you need to be on your toes! You need to know the tricks. Here’s the article, with some great tips on photographing your kids on the beach:

 http://shootingthekids.dpblogs.com/2008/03/20/shooting-kids-at-the-beach/

Until nex time,

Mariah

 Here’s a great article from the “Shooting your Kids” blog, of which I am an avid reader, thanks to my Google reader (oh yes, I am a geek, you didn’t know?).

 http://shootingthekids.dpblogs.com/2008/03/20/shooting-kids-at-the-beach/

 Let’s get in the mood for beach days! :)

Mariah

Here’s Cheryl (in green) showing a bunch of fine looking photographers how she shoots. Imagine having that many cameras pointed at you?

See that pose being struck in the background?

Cheryl’s husband and baby Kennedy getting their pose on. You can’t see it, but in front of them is a whole lot of cameras!

See the gorgeous model in the background there?

Cheryl and the group.

You should have seen the faces of the people driving and walking by, haha. We must have looked like a huge group of good-looking paparazzi ;)

I suppose that IS the point, however, and I am proud to be a part of the new up-and-coming women’s photography blog called “Love the Click!”. I’m in good company as well; the women interviewed after me are people I have looked up to in photographically since day one.

This is a long time coming, and excuse the late trackback, Lacey! Check it out, leave a comment, and feel free to judge:

Love The Click

And a recent session sneak peek: