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maskcara and family

By Cass Miller on April 3, 2013 in Family, Lifestyle

I am excited to finally be sharing the gorgeous Killpack family with you. Cara is a sweet friend of mine and she’s also the genius behind her blog MASKCARA. She has undoubtedly made me about 20% prettier with all her makeup tips. I thought I was good with makeup before, but this lady works magic.

That’s not the only thing I love about this girl though. She has the sweetest soul and is so down to earth. I loved being able to photograph her with her darling little family, just naturally they way they are. She and Nick have such a great connection – you can tell they’re totally best friends. They get a kick out of their little Christian. We just chatted about parenting and religion and love and opportunity our whole session long. It was a beautiful day and they are a beautiful family. It was complete perfection.

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the mortensen family | southern utah family photographer

By Cass Miller on January 28, 2013 in Family

A few things…

Remember how I’m actually a photographer? Sometimes I forget, too.

I am currently booking families for Spring/Summer.

I am currently booking births through August. I am running a special on my births right now so if you’re interested in booking, now is the time to do it.

I will be in Salt Lake the last week in March! If you’re in the SLC area, I’d love to have you. I have 2 spots left for sessions.

I’m feeling really excited about the projects I have lined up right now. I think it’s going to be a great year.

Today I’m sharing a beautiful family with you. This sweet family belongs to my sister-in-law. I love seeing how much they’ve grown from last year. I’m so excited that these guys will be welcoming a sweet baby girl this spring. Y’all know how I love me a fresh baby girl.

xo, C

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the olcott family | st george family photographer

By Cass Miller on January 22, 2013 in Family, Kids, Mini Sessions

The Olcott Family is one of my very favorite families in the world. They moved to Vegas this year and I have missed them being around so much! Jordan is one of my closest friends and also my amazing hair stylist. :) I would be so much less fabulous without her. I mean, look at this family’s style. Perfection! It may have something to do with Josh being the general manager at Polo Ralph Lauren….

Their session last year was one of my very favorites so I knew this year would be hard to beat. I loved that she wanted a more urban location this year to switch things up. I’ve got to say.. it may have topped last year’s session. I loved how these turned out.

Aren’t they fabulous??

Happy Tuesday, y’all!

xo, C

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Best of 2012 – Photo posts

By Cass Miller on January 9, 2013 in Birth, Couples, Family, Home Sessions, Lifestyle, Maternity, San Diego, Travel, Weddings

I could have posted every single session of 2012. I had such a great year, with so many wonderful clients. My business flourished this year, and I could not feel more fortunate or blessed. I was given opportunities to push my photography beyond my limits of what I thought I was capable. I had such a great year and I’m so looking forward to 2013 and upcoming sessions. I am looking forward to pushing myself in new ways and to keep on this path I’ve had laid out for me. Here are just SOME of my highlights for 2012. These were the sessions that helped shape me as an artist this year. The milestones for both my art and my business. The photos I keep close to my heart.

Harlo and Stella

Ali and Willow

Baby Lydia At Home

The Campos Family At Home

My Life, My Loves

This Mama Is Loved

Lets Get Personal | Jessica’s Maternity Session

This Is My Favorite Her

At Home With The Madisons

Megan and Egan In Love

Welcome Home Baby KJ

Meet The Tooheys | New Orleans

I hope you enjoy these sessions as much as I did creating them. Thank you, thank you, thank you to ALL my clients in 2012! You have made my dreams come true. Truly!

All my love, C

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Meet the Pattens

By Cass Miller on January 3, 2013 in Family, Kids, Mini Sessions

From the moment I stumbled onto Erica’s blog, I knew we were a match made in heaven. She is a mom to all girls, that comes from a family of all girls, just like me. Our little ladies are very close in age, except she’s just added a lovely little smiley addition to their sweet family. We had so much fun just chatting at her session about so many things we could both relate. It was fun to see Ivy and Olive and how similar they were to my Harlo and Stella in the way they interacted and their cute little personalities.

Erica is stunningly beautiful, has a heart of gold and is so incredibly talented. I have no idea how that even happens! It was such a pleasure photographing this family. I can’t wait to get them in front of my camera again.

Happy Thursday! (are you as mixed up on your days as I am?)

xo, C

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merry merry

By Cass Miller on December 25, 2012 in Family, Home Sessions, I'm a mom, Our Home

If you missed our card this year.. (and it may still be coming since I was so late getting these out!) here she is in all her glory.

Feeling so very grateful this holiday.

Thank you for following my little slice of the internet.

xoxo – C

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meet the Chappells | St George Family Photographer

By Cass Miller on December 24, 2012 in Babies, Family, Lifestyle, Studio Sessions

Merry Christmas Eve, my dear friends! We are having a nice relaxing day at home today. We plan on having dinner tonight and baking a birthday cake for Jesus and going to our favorite round of christmas light houses. If you’re from St. George, you know we’ve got some good ones this year! I’ll be so sad when all is taken down. It’s become our favorite nightly pass time.

Anyway, I thought the perfect gift to you would be a fabulous family session. It’s been a while since I posted photo stuff. :/

A couple months ago, I hosted a giveaway on my facebook page to celebrate 500 fans. It was an exciting milestone for me and even more exciting when Ashlee and her gorgeous family won!

They live in Provo but were still happy to have a studio session while they were down vising for Thanksgiving. We had such a magical session. The Chappell’s have such a cool style, they’re so down-to-earth and they have the sweetest baby girl. They were so sweet and grateful for their session, my heart wanted to explode. I remember having just one baby girl and how sweet that time was for us, I was so happy to be able to capture that time for Ashlee and Nick.

I’ve been so excited to share this session with you!

Enjoy.

Merry day to you and yours!

xo, Cass

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the Oliversons | St George Family Lifestyle Photographer

By Cass Miller on December 11, 2012 in Extended Sessions, Family, Lifestyle

The Oliversons are back with an amazing and fun session. I loved how Kristina used her birth package. Instead of doing a maternity session, she chose to do her birth, newborns and save her 3rd session for when baby KJ was a little older to do a family session. It’s been such a fun way to follow this family. (and they’re not getting rid of me now.. )

Remember last week when I talked about changing my sessions this next year to really help tell the story of your family? Along with offering home sessions, I am offering extended family sessions on a location that is significant to you to tell your story.

I loved, loved, loved what Kristina had in mind for her extended family session. Jeff is a PE teacher and coach. She wondered if I thought it would be crazy to do their family session on his school’s baseball fields. ”it’s just so us,” she explained. My heart pretty much jumped out of my chest for joy. I loved the idea and knew how significant to their family it was.

We brainstormed some ideas on how to personalize their session and used the field in both traditional and non-traditional ways. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite in this session, but I seriously loved the series of them on the bleachers with the popcorn. This family… I tell you what.

Thank you SO much, Jeff & Kristina for trying something new with me and allowing me to capture your family through this time. I can’t wait for next year!

xo, C

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At home with the Madisons

By Cass Miller on December 4, 2012 in Family, Home Sessions, Lifestyle

This session…

I can’t even explain how much I loved this session.

Firt of all, it came to me in a day I was feeling a little burned out. I wanted to push myself in my art. I was feeling like everything was getting stagnant. Does that ever happen to you? I’ve had ideas on how I wanted to rework my art and fine tune my specialty. I just couldn’t quite put my finger on what exactly that meant.

And then Joie (who is a super talented photographer herself!) emailed me about doing a session for her family. She shared parts of her story with me that touched my heart. She wanted a session at home, with her family, exactly as they were.

And then I knew what I wanted (needed) to do.

Home sessions speak to me in a way nothing else can. They feed me, they nourish my very artistic soul. (and now I’m getting all ‘starving artist’ on you) This is how I like my family documented and it’s because I love the story of the family. I believe it’s harder to convey when everyone dresses alike and poses perfectly for an image. There’s not enough story in that to feed me the same way.

I have just finished up my year of shooting for the busy season. I’ve had a great year and I have been blessed with being booked out, but I’m very excited for next year and the projects I’m working on and the direction I’m hoping to take my art and business.

I’m hoping to tell the story of each and every one of my clients next year. Whether this means more clients or less, I’m excited for this change/redirection/fine tuning.

I’m hoping to share a lot more sessions like this one. Joie has impeccable taste. (they MADE that bed!) I loved her home and her style. There was a love in this family like I’ve never seen before. I can’t imagine better parents for that sweet boy Max and that little lady Dempsey.

Thank you to the Madison family for allowing me into your loving home and allowing me to capture such a wonderful connection. I’ll cherish this session!

xoxo, C

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the Ence Family | Southern Utah Family Photographer

By Cass Miller on November 27, 2012 in Family

I’m so excited to be sharing the gorgeous Ence family with you today.

I grew up with this lovely couple. They were both close friends of my sister and spent many a days at my house growing up. They are high school sweethearts and have the most beautiful little girl, Bryn. Dustin works out of town a lot, so I was so excited when we could nail down a session when we were all in town. I love this family so much. There is so much love between them and I’m so happy to have been able to capture that for them.

Meet the Ence’s…

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Meet the Higbees | Southern Utah Family Photographer

By Cass Miller on November 16, 2012 in Family, Maternity

I have been so excited to share this session.

I feel like I’m saying that about every session right now. I’ve had such a great year.

Most of my clients become sweet friends and what a blessing that has been! I can’t imagine my life without some of my friends who started out as clients, isn’t that crazy?

Laura is a good one. She is the sister of one of my best friends (who started out as a client) and now we’ve become good friends as well. I cannot explain how excited I was to photograph this special time for Laura. I can’t wait for her to have that sweet baby!

Mike and Laura have such a great family. They’ve got so much love between the two of them and they both just absolutely adore that little Miles. I know their new baby will be showered in love as well. I traveled up to Cedar for their session while it was still so pretty out. We had such a beautiful session.

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Meet the Rogers | Southern Utah Family Photographer

By Cass Miller on November 12, 2012 in Family, Lifestyle, Studio Sessions

I loved photographing the Rogers Family. Stacie is the owner of my Harlo’s preschool and she’s so sweet and funny and full of life. They’re such a relaxed couple and their shoot was a breeze. They’ve got the most handsome boys and they were up for whatever.

Stacie liked the idea of doing part of her session in my studio and part at their favorite family duck pond. We got a little more than we bargained for with the ducks (see below) but we had a blast. I loved that we could incorporate two different feels to each location. I love that we got the snuggly, intimate setting with the studio, but the fun loving, more funky look with the other location.

I can’t wait to get these handsome fellas in front of my camera again.

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Meet the Tooheys | Travel Session

By Cass Miller on November 6, 2012 in Family, Lifestyle, Travel

Megan is another dear friend of mine who met up with us in New Orleans for her family session. I am so glad the Toohey’s made the 4 hour trip out, it would just not have been the same without them.

I know I’ve mentioned how fun our trip was, but I just can’t even begin to explain how much fun it was and how much it meant to me. In this day and age, we have so many different opportunities to meet people. Megan and I, along with a few other amazing ladies have truly been modern day pen pals. We have been able to share our lives with each other online and that gift has been absolutely priceless to me. These girls have been my saving grace over the years. We all know each other so deeply, we’ve laughed together and cried together, we’ve been there for each other on levels that would be impossible for any other type of friend. To have a sort of backwards relationship in that we know each other so well and had never met in person until this trip, it was so fun to see these girls in person. To be able to laugh together at nights after the kids were in bed and be able to squish on those sweet babies… it was almost surreal.

This family is especially close to my heart because they have two girls, just like us. One born in December and the other in August, just like us. It was so fun to watch their family in all the similarities they had to ours. Megan and Andrew have the sweetest story. They are high school sweethearts, they met at their christian high school and have sang together on their church’s worship team for years. They have two of the cutest little girls I’ve ever seen and are full of all the southern hospitality (and southern drawls) you could ever imagine. I’m not even kidding, I wanted to record Ansley’s little voice with her little southern accent so I could hear it when I went back home. Melted my heart!

I had never been to New Olreans before this trip and I could have never believed what a dream it was to photograph. The colors, the texture, the architecture. Oh my goodness grace, I was in HEAVEN! In planning, Megan knew she wanted a family session in the city and I was totally up for it. When I actually got there to see the city… I almost peed my pants. The city mixed with the beautiful Toohey family was almost too much for me to handle. It was purely magical. I’ve been so excited to share this session….

Gorgeous city and gorgeous family. I can’t wait to go back!

xo, C

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The Campos Family at home | Family Photographer

By Cass Miller on October 31, 2012 in Family, Home Sessions, Lifestyle, Travel

Where to even begin with this family?

I love them more than words can say. Jessica is one of my sweetest friends in the whole world. We met online 4 years ago, you can read about that here.

This was the first time we had met in person and I was coming out to photograph their family and stay at their house for the weekend. ha! I fell even more in love with them and their sweet family connection while I was there. I loved every second of my trip.

Jessica and Jose are high school sweethearts, they have two boys, Julien and Jordan. They’re both from New Orleans and have made a super sweet little life for themselves there. Jose works hard as a police officer and Jessica works in insurance and they spend all their free time together as a family taking in all New Orleans has to offer. This family LOVES more than I’ve ever seen. Their boys were the best of friends, and so are Jessica and Jose. Even though they’ve been together for over 10 years, you would think they just started dating based on the amount of giggling they do together. Both Jessica and Jose are so loving with their boys. I learned so much about parenting and marriage from just being there over the weekend. I love how they communicate together as a family, I love how affectionate they are, I just love how their family comes first above anything else.

When we started planning for our session, Jessica knew she wanted a home session and I was so glad. My first night there as I was eating dinner and catching up, asking them about their session details. The boys were playing together on the floor, creating sound effects and car crashes a plenty and Jessica said, “This is exactly us. There’s usually toys strewn all over the place and we all just.. play.” I knew we were going to have the most perfect session.

And we did.

If you would like to book a home session with me, I am available for travel nation wide. Email me for more information, cassmillerphoto {at} gmail {dot} com

xo, C

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The Strate Family at the beach | Southern California Family Photographer

By Cass Miller on October 25, 2012 in Family, Lifestyle, San Diego, Travel

I photographed the Strate family last year and I was so stoked when Adriana contacted me again to do their family pictures. Have I mentioned how much I love returning clients? It’s always so nice to see them again, see how their kids have grown, and not to mention it’s pretty much the best compliment you could ever give a photographer. It’s been so much fun catching up with my clients from last year!

We wanted a fun and relaxed session for the Strate’s. Last year we enjoyed their beautiful neighborhood vineyard and this year we headed to the beach! It was such a fun session. I especially love the last shots of Gavin kicking around the soccer ball and just watching them play together as a family. Totally filled my photographer heart.