Sweet baby Kassidy is One! This session was a referral session – which is so much fun and so rewarding for me. Two incredibly sweet families sent me this family.

It was a beautiful morning at Kapalua Bay for their Maui photography session. Kassidy is such a doll baby. She loved the sand and had an adorable wobbly baby walk. Both of her parents are completely smitten – they are such a sweet family!

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Today I’m playing “ketchup” as my daughter puts it. I’d like to share two awesome Maui photography sessions tonight!

I met this first family at Big Beach in Makena for a beautiful sunset photo session. It was truly special because there was a large crowd gathered on the beach and we were trying to figure out what it was for. Turns out that it was a release for baby turtles! In all my life living here, I have never seen this before.

This family was so much fun – I truly enjoyed being their Maui photographer!

A portion of this Maui photography session was donated The Maui Humane Society

This next session was another great family. We met for a sunset session at Baby Beach in Lahaina town. The tide was low and the water was like glass. We had a really unique, hazy sunset and beautiful light!

Daughter, Ashley, makes beautiful tutus and head pieces for girls as well as really neat recycled crayons! Check out her Etsy shop!

A portion of this Maui photography session was donated to The Maui Food Bank.

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This lovely family was my first family of 2012! The session came about last minute and I was amazed at how they found me – the Siri iPhone search! I think I need to get my hands on the new iPhone

I loved how this family was spending their Maui Vacation – nice and leisurely. We had so much fun heading to the lava point near Kapalua Bay and exploring areas that I can only go to with older children and adults. The light was beautiful and we had a lovely sunset at the end.

Thank you so much, “S” Family for spending the first day of 2012 on a photo shoot with me during your Maui vacation! A portion of this session was donated to Hospice Maui on your behalf.

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My kids are a given. Period. Nothing even comes close in importance to me.

But the next thing on my list would probably surprise a lot of people. It wouldn’t be my pictures. Or my computer. It would simply be my insurance documents.

I’m sure you’re shocked I wouldn’t grab my pictures. They are priceless – for sure! My old family photos, those of my parents and from my childhood that are prints, are safely tucked away in a safe deposit box at the bank. They truly are irreplaceable. But my digital files I have backed up at Mozy Online Backup. Mozy has actually saved me a few times. When my external drive went wacky and truncated my files, I retrieved them off of Mozy. When I accidentally deleted the wrong images, I went and got them off of Mozy. Indeed Mozy has saved me several times. Not only are my personal files on there, but backups of your client files are there too. I know this sounds like a total advertisement – but it is. It’s important. Computers fail. External drives fail. Having your images and documents in a separate location is a big deal.

Mozy is running a 10% discount for signing up this month. I promise every penny spent is worth it. The code this month is SAVEME10. Just click Mozy Online Backup – Get Protected Today! to get started.

Clients, your files are protected in one more off-site location: SmugMug. I have changed my business model to include the high resolution files on disc, but I want you to know that should something ever happen to your files or your home, the images are safely stored in another location.

If you have any questions about backing up files, please don’t hesitate to ask!

At the last minute Kai wasn’t interested in the drawing – and for some reason I recorded this sideways! – but Ryenne had a good time being the name picker.

Congratulations to our winners – $100 Gift Certificate to Leeanna Scott and $50 Gift Certificate to Susan Shisler!

I was a housewife. Cruz was my Swiffer Duster. Peter was Clark Kent. Ryenne was a butterfly and Kai was a cowboy.

This decade so many things happened in my life… I got married in 2000, started my business in 2002, had my first child in 2006 (and another in 2008!), moved to another state… so many things. This has been an amazing decade for me and my expanding family.

As we begin 2010, I have a few announcements and updates (yes more! haha) I am becoming an LLC! I am waiting for the final Texas paperwork to go through. I hope in the next few days it will be finalized. Just as a reminder, this means that any and all payments will need to be made out to Photography by Mariah Milan, LLC instead of Mariah Milan.

The next announcement is that I have (sadly) decided that I’ll need February off. I am just getting so huge and uncomfortable in my last trimester that I won’t be taking on any further work in February. If you’ve already booked a February session – not to worry! – you are still on the calendar and everything is a go unless I go into labor early.

And the final update is a new Mini Session program! I’ve had requests so here it is!

The Wednesday Afternoon Mini-Session

Perfect for those who don’t need or want a full session!

Half Hour Shoot (South and Central Austin)

10-15 full resolution images on disc

one 4×6 of each image

$500 (plus tax)

*not available for newborn or studio maternity sessions

And here’s a look at a couple of my favorite family portraits from this past season… I didn’t want to post these earlier and spoil any Christmas cards!!

Happy New Year to you and yours! May you all be blessed many times over!

I’ll admit that the three of us were absolutely exhausted the day after the wedding. But it was a beautiful day, the waves were perfect, and we really had no excuse not to go. We hit up Polo beach and were rewarded with a beautiful sunset.

This is something I miss the very most about Maui. And I teared up a bit… no… I actually did cry. I know that seems so silly. But I really do miss that part of living on an island. I am so happy to live in Austin now… but the beach will forever hold a very special place for me. Thanks guys for dealing with a very emotional (and pregnant) photographer

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Health and Happiness to all!

XOXO, Mariah

Little Maddox did brilliantly through his shoot. He needed to be fed a few times, but when he did sleep he let me move him around (except did NOT want to be on his tummy). His mom had some props she wanted to use, and Maddox did an excellent job in the bowl and basket. Although he did leave quite a mess for mom to clean up. Sorry!

Without further adeu, here is handsome baby Maddox. Brand new to this world at 5 days old.

Isn’t he just soooo precious??? Such a snuggler!