Mialette Branding & Photography

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Mialette Branding & Photography

I help small business owners design beautiful brands while loving their other life priorities well.

Current menu of offerings includes Brand Coaching, Photography, Styling and Prop curation services.

03/17/2026

The goal for me in this Wuthering Heights inspired shoot was movement & wildness. What happens when you push the settings to their limit and take chance on the outcome? It’s different from the way I approach most shoots but also my favorite way to work when I can do it. Ironically I think it also gets the best images.

That too has been my creative challenge for the year. My brand photography approach is different from others. It’s inspired by just about everything EXCEPT brand photography- it’s about telling stories that people can feel, inspired by fashion, beauty, and intentionality. I aim to create photos that make your goals inevitable, not forced.

This was shoot was done as part of an interview for , and was hands down THE most fun I’ve ever had on an interview. Working with other photographers helps me approach branding in a new way, explore new styles, and help people grow their businesses from the inside out.

More to come on this one!

Concept: .who
Model:
Styling: .who & .mialette

02/18/2026

Fun, embarrassing, obnoxious fact: I’ve been working on a branding course for like 7 years.

There was one thing that kept me stuck and it’s this point:

There is a line between your artist side and your brand side.

I love branding. I love the saying no, I love building the lens and the story. But more than that I love being an artist. I want the process to flow through me.

What I’ve discovered in my time working with clients is that people who are strong on the brand side often feel shame for leaving their artist behind a little. And artists feel worried when they can’t keep their wildness contained to a brand.

There is an altogether other way.

More soon. 💋

02/10/2026

I became a photographer for the same reason I became an Occupational Therapist… because the process of the way people move and create fascinates me.

Over the last few years I’ve had the privilege of photographing behind the scenes for several other photographers on various campaigns and projects. It has become one of my favorite things to do. The process in my mind is the same as when I’m working for a brand; I’m hungry to find the story that seems too ordinary to notice.

No one’s story is ordinary. The process and alchemy that brings us to each individual moment is sacred and wild. But it’s impossible to be consciously thinking of that all the time. Instead, the challenge is to sink into the current and trust you’ll be there and ready when the moment is right.

Shot for for Verdin NYC Bridal

01/29/2026

Hi, this is Kristyn- for the last couple years I’ve been using my personal page to share my photography, which has been sort of embarrassing because I can see that people click over to this account and it’s been empty. Well, I’m here now, internet! I’ll be filling this account back up with some work I’ve done- some new stuff, some old stuff. Maybe I’ll post 20 things in one day and then not again for two years. Who knows. Stay wild.

This photo was shot for Sarah Bradshaw Photo as part of her campaign for Verdin NYC.

01/28/2026

I was excited to come and show you some new things I’ve been working on this year after taking a long break last year to help my kids get settled in a new place.

But after posting a slide about political violence followed by a jacket that I loved on the next slide- I really couldn’t stomach the dissonance of flip-flopping between terror and joy.

I’m a centrist (I guess that’s my label) and I hold a consistent life ethic. When people d!e, I don’t care where your beliefs fall. I mourn your life. Largely, this is because I know you can’t keep de@th in a box. It can’t be confined to the womb or prisoners or immigrants or LGBT people or conservatives orpeople who believe differently or look differently than you. Once you strip someone’s rights, you strip all our rights.

When I coach small businesses- we always start with your life priorities, before we move to your business priorities and visual goals. When I looked at mine in the last week- God, family, then my art and business, and held it up against the images and videos I’ve consumed just in this week alone- I couldn’t help but notice what a sanitized version of Christianity I’ve been blessed to enjoy.

Lent is coming, and with it will come many reflections of where we place ourselves at the foot of the cross. But in 2026- where would I have actually been? Standing in the living room in my pajamas watching the footage from multiple angles? On the toilet? In my bed? On vacation? Packing lunches? Would the crucifixion be my 5 minute screen break while I was escaping my kids?

I can look at my life now and say without much doubt- yes, it would have been. More than likely I would have been home digesting the event through the lens of commentary and cell phone angles. I don’t know if I’m ok with that. I’m not ok with that. I don’t know what to do about it yet, but I’m not ok with it.

Some businesses will choose to continue to post as usual and I understand that and I don’t judge it. I don’t have any big platform where people are looking for my response. Of course I have opinions, but this has never felt like the right place for me to share them…or maybe I genuinely am not brave enough. (Cont in comments)

06/09/2024

Something new is coming for you small business branding bootstrappers.

03/21/2024

Listen up my brand photography clients that love the color pink! Cherry blossom sessions aren’t just for family photography. They are a great way to use a brief display by Mother Nature 🌸 to infuse your brand with delicate feminine details all year long!

As a little bonus, I’m including some images like the one you see here in the galleries this year. You can use them as stock photography for your brand or print for your home.

Cherry Blossoms hold beautiful symbolism of embracing life in all its fleeting moments, which is very much a part of my photography and life philosophy.

I’m so excited to share that with you this year! It’s an honor to see some returning faces on the schedule and I am looking forward to meeting some new and .

Link to book is in my stories. 🤍🌸

01/15/2024

Big sis comforts little sis for a boo boo.

Lots of silliness.

Personality to spare.

Family sessions tend to take on one of a few directions- sweet, silly or emotive. It’s not always easy for kiddos to warm up in front of the camera in the short period time available in a mini session which is why I always gather information and do a lot of prep before we begin!

The prep time of outfit selection, explaining things to the kids, and getting to know each other a bit beforehand is the secret sauce that makes a session great! Then once we begin, it’s time to trust the process and have fun.

For this mini session we pulled out all the silliness and personality. This family was so sweet and these dresses from pulled it all together!

11/28/2023

Just a few days left to sign up! Join me at this weekend, December 3 for sweet and simple holiday mini sessions!

Link to book is in my stories or you can find it at https://mossandmore.com/pages/workshops-events

I’m looking forward to meeting those of you who have already signed up!

Remaining spaces are limited. Join us!

11/13/2023

I’ve been tumbling towards something lately.

Whatever it is feathers through the tips of my fingers

I exhale and it breathes me in closer.

I don’t know what it is, but I know how it feels now.

I recognize our dance.

And when it breathes me in, the things I believe- about art being true in the right here, right now moments most ordinary- it finds me again in women who’ve walked a creative path before.

Painful realizations come too. About my smallness in the broken world.

About creative lifetimes unnoticed.

About the irreplaceable nature of life lost.

You don’t have to dig too deep into the history of women in art to find that many of their contributions were swept away by a society with too narrow of a view of what was “high art”.

Mary Cassatt’s works were considered “too domestic” to be a true impressionist.

Jackson Pollack got credit for a technique he learned from Janet Sobel.

There are always these stories. And those stories are a loss to us all.

But underneath there is this current of these prolific artists who were unrecognized or recognized too late:

…Of self discovery and knowing your worth.

…Of letting divine path and purpose breathe you into its chest.

…Of making art and alchemy with whatever is set before you.

I am sure of less and less these days, but I do know that whenever I feel that breath, I want more.

Artwork:

Migrant Woman, Dorothea Lange

Venus with a Mirror, Titian

10/25/2023

Last call for mini sessions this weekend!

It’s FINALLY supposed to be warm and sunny! The park we’re at is stunning and full of gorgeous fall color right now.

If you’re interested leave me a comment or send me a DM and I will send you my last available time slots. :)

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http://www.mialette.com/

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