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Best of 2012 – Photo posts
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.
Lets Get Personal | Jessica’s Maternity Session
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
Recommendmerry merry
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
RecommendAt home with the Madisons
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 Campos Family at home | Family Photographer
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
RecommendWelcome Home Baby KJ | St. George Newborn Photographer
**I am currently booking birth packages for the spring and summer, if you are newly pregnant and want your birth captured, email me! cassmillerphoto {at} gmail {dot} com**
Remember this sweet birth? The Oliversons are back today with some newborn lovin’.
Have I told you how much I love having a fresh newborn in the house? I think that it is the most wonderful thing in the whole world. The time is so fleeting, but it is so magical. And while I can’t keep a fresh newborn in my house all the time, I am lucky enough to go soak up the newborn goodness from time to time with the families who share it with me.
Thanks for stopping by!
xo, C
RecommendBaby Lydia at home | St. George Newborn Photographer
So here is the final session of Cheri’s birth package. See her lovely maternity session, here and her gorgeous birth, here.
It was such an honor to go through the maternity, birth and newborn process with these guys. They have such a calm and peaceful energy surrounding them. Their house is just overflowing with love. Lydia was wide awake the entire time we were shooting, but I barely heard a peep out of her. She is such an alert baby with these giant, beautiful eyes. She gets her beautiful looks from her mama and has that daddy of hers absolutely wrapped around her finger. I can’t wait to watch this little lady grow up.
Enjoy!
To learn more about birth packages and pricing, email me at cassmillerphoto {at} gmail{dot} com.
RecommendOh my love | A week in family photos
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I’ve been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don’t mean anything
When you’ve got no one to tell them to
It’s true…I was made for you
I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do
I was made for you
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Oh, my Mr. Miller. I have recently written about our whole love story on my personal blog, here. I think sometimes my blog is a shrine to him, but really.. I’m a lady in love, what can I say?
I will adore these shots of us for the rest of my days.
photos courtesy of Brooke Ashley Photography
A week in family pictures
Every summer, I make it a point to get our family pictures taken. If you’re thinking, you’re a photographer. Why don’t you just take your own family pictures? You’ve probably never tried to be the subject and photographer AND the mom all at once. Plus, it’s important for me to photograph my family truly as we are each year to document our story. I save up, plan ahead and every single year it’s worth it.
This year we were graced by the wonderful Brooke Ashley. Let me tell you a little story about that.
I have been pretty much obsessed with Brooke Ashley since I was a first year (make that first month) photographer. Then, when I had a little family of my own, Brooke was taking some time off due to a growing family of HER own. So this year I woke up one morning with panic in my soul to book our family session and book it at home.. with Brooke Ashley. How in the world?!
I contacted Brooke, and said something like, “Oh hey brooke, I know you’re not really booking families, but would you make an exception for me?” and she was like “oh totally! I book a couple families here and there.” and I was like, “oh yeah… one more thing. Can you do it at our house? And also, I don’t live in your same city.” and she was all, “Oh that’s funny! I’m actually going to be driving past your house next month. I’ll totally stop by for the morning and we’ll do it then.” SCORE. This is my testimony y’all, that there is a God. A Photography God, at that.
So then I was so excited I could barely eat my lunch. …Then the session approached us and the reality that BROOKE ASHLEY would be IN MY HOUSE taking pictures of MY FAMILY set in and I became frantic. Frantic, I say! I think I was more nervous for this than I was for my own nuptials or giving birth. Gave me a whole new appreciation for my own clients, especially my home session clients. 
But of course, the second she arrived all was calm and wonderful. She is even more amazing and more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. It tips the scales as one of my very favorite days. Not to mention weeks later when I got the pictures in the mail and began flipping through them with tears dripping down my face. Tears, I tell you!
So I officially name this week Brooke Ashley week here on the blog. And because I’m sort of vain and I NEED you to see every single picture, I will be featuring parts of our session everyday this week. So rest easy, my dear souls. Rest easy.
xoxo, Cass (and the miller crew)
Expecting a little one | Southern Utah Maternity Photographer
HELLO dear friends. I have been working on some major projects here at CMP, I can’t wait to share them with you. Please excuse my absence while I’m working on these changes.. sometimes my children like to have a mother and I just can’t seem to find enough hours in the day to do everything! Soon though, I’ll be back my regular bloggin’.
Let me tell you a little about my summer thus far. It has been full of busy, busy, busy. We’ve started our traveling and as much as it wears me out, it feeds my soul in such wonderful ways. I love my travel sessions and I love that I can do this as part of my work. What is making my summer, though is all the wonderful sessions and projects I’m working on both near and far. I always feel like I have the best clients, but this summer something has changed, something has clicked. My clients are so wonderful and have opened up to me in such amazing ways. I’ve been a part of love stories, baby stories and become a part of a handful of families. I am loving where my life is right now and I’m feeling so blessed to be a part of such wonderful people’s stories. This maternity session is so close to my heart. Cheri and her sweet family allowed me to come into their home for a chunk of their day to really let me see their family for who they are. As you all know, I’m quite obsessed with all things pregnancy, birth and babies, and to be part of this time for Cheri and her family to me is priceless.
Enjoy!
I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer!
xo, C
RecommendJax and his mama
I took some time off in May to spend with my family, and while those few weeks off are always nice and refreshing, I can never wait to get back behind my camera. I have so many cool projects and sessions I’m working on this summer and I can’t wait to get started and share it all with you. A lot of exciting new changes are happening here and soon all will be revealed. 
I absolutely adored this session I had with Sweet Baby Jax and his darling mama, Karen. I spent the morning with them just lounging around and cuddling and playing… the perfect way to spend a morning with your sweet baby, I say! I was especially excited to get some shots of Karen nursing her darling babe. To me, there’s just nothing better. I loved the shots we got and I was so thrilled that she allowed me to capture such sweet and intimate moments between she and her son. I hope she’ll treasure these images forever. I couldn’t help but have a permanent grin on my face while editing these, I mean look how delicious that little Jax is!
Enjoy!
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Baby Brooks At Home | St. George Newborn Photographer
To me, there is nothing in the entire universe better than having a new baby in your home. I love the smells, the sounds, the calm energy, the bits of baby-ness making a trail all through the house (pacifiers, nursing pads, changing supplies, receiving blankets..) It’s all just pure heaven to me. This may also be the reason that I adore photographing new babies right in their own homes. I love when couples are too busy admiring their new baby to even notice I’m there. I love when families get all snuggled up in bed (where I always spent most of my days as a mom with a new baby) and just relish in all the newborn goodness.
The Griffin family was great for letting me come into their home and let me document them in this happiest of times. I was able to photograph Jessica’s maternity session, her birth session and their newborn session. Booking a birth package has so many advantages, At our maternity session I really get to know my moms/families, and like-wise, they get to know me. I get to see them in action and hear all about their pregnancies and previous deliveries and just chat all things mom and baby related (my favorite subjects). This gives me such a better direction in how I document their birth, and helps them see my approach to shooting and get really comfortable with me. As I’ve mentioned before, birth is really personal for me and when I know the family and we’ve had sessions together, it helps me document that birth in a more personal way. I feel like I leave a piece of myself in all my birth sessions. I am shooting the world through my own eyes, and as I get to know the mother, I can photograph her as I see her. This is essential in creating a personal and intimate session.
By the time we get to a newborn session, we’re all a big family. We can lovingly re-cap on how lovely the birth was, I can admire all the changes the baby has made in the week or two since I’ve seen him last. We often get chatting about nursing and sleep schedules and all that post-delivery care I’ve grown to love so much. At this point, the family is so comfortable with me and can truly open up to me. It takes the pressure off of both of us and we can just relax and create a beautiful session.
When I delivered the birth and newborn discs to Jessica, we sat and looked through them together with tears streaming down both of our faces. It’s these moments that I live and breathe for. It’s what makes this more than a job for me. I am truly a blessed woman to be able to photograph this pure love between a mother and her family.
I hope you enjoyed this session as much as I did photographing it.
xo, C
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