Well, I’m back! For those of you that didn’t talk to me before I left, I was off staffing The Secret Workshop that traveled to Boston this past weekend. I cannot tell y’all how much fun we had. Run by my fabulous photographer friend, Austin, Texas Photographer Cheryl Muhr, we taught 40 women the ins and outs of kids’ photography at a gorgeous venue in Framingham. All of the attendees were incredibly talented, as were our beautiful kid models that helped us to teach them the ‘hands on’ way of shooting. :

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

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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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