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  • Maria Martins

    I'm a traveler, portraitist, and a lover of nature and all its mysteries. For 30 years I have helped create magical moments for families through fine art portraiture. I look forward to continuing my work by helping you capture your next timeless portrait!

    Asheville | Avalon | West Palm

The sun is shining, the wind is warming up, and the grass is soft and green. Kick off your shoes and let’s get outside!

The innocence of Holy Communion is perfectly complemented by the pure beauty of nature. The golden sunlight in the late afternoon, with its long casting shadows and dramatic ambiance, creates striking portraits. And the delicate bursts of colors from the flowers in the crisp morning sunlight really liven up the mood.

Outdoor photography provides so many opportunities for breathtaking portraits. Environment plays such an important role in successful portraiture. The landscape of our farm in Mullica Hill, NJ has been carefully planned to create the most photogenic scenes possible for interesting and unique portraits.

At Unique Image our portraits are not only guaranteed for life but with scenery likes ours they truly come to life.

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We accomplished so much this past Sunday with a lot of special help from friends old and new. It was the perfect sunny day to get our hands and toes dirty in the garden. The animals were out with us, grazing under the warm blue skies, watching us curiously as we poured compost (made with their help!) into the raised beds.

Looking out at the vacant plots of dark soil and envisioning the delicious fruits and veggies that will soon grow there reminded me of a beautiful quote from Sufi mystic Rumi: “Earth turns to gold in the hands of the wise.”

A transformation happens on this farm when the days get longer and the nights get warmer. Life peeks out from every stone and every leaf, quietly guiding us as we work the soil, water the roots, and see with our clearest sight the potential of the land gifted to us. There’s even the feeling of magic in the air. A white unicorn neighs from a deep corner of the field, someone searches for faeries in the tall yellow grasses, and a baby goat takes off in acrobatic flight.

So much is happening at the farm this year, with so many more ideas to follow. We’d love you to join the community being built here and see the magic for yourself. Even contributing to the alchemical process of turning earth into gold.

Be well.

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Nothing is a more beautiful accessory than showing how passionate you are about what you love.

You are happiest when you do what you love, and it transforms you. Aristotle wrote that doing certain activities you truly love can contribute to your eudaimonia, which literally means “the state of having a good indwelling spirit, a good genius.” Doing whatever activity gives us this profound happiness, according to Aristotle, is an ethical priority.

Share what makes you happy and let that joy spread to those around you. Happiness is the best contagion! A great way to achieve this for your Senior Portraits is to bring representations of what you love with you. For our athletic ladies out there, this could mean bringing equipment, awards, or wearing your sports uniform to help create that authentic rendering of You at Your Best. You have worked so hard on the field, at the gym, and during practice, so now it’s time to stand by your work and be proud of all you’ve accomplished.

It’s never too early to get in your Senior Portraits or Yearbook Page!

To schedule a session, please call us at (856)478-6990.

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Allow us to introduce to you our newest members of the Unique Image Photography farm family! Daisy (white Nigerian Dwarf) and Stanley (Lamancha). It has been a long time specialty of ours to photograph with live baby animals since we are a working farm. Our two newest babies are bottle fed, well loved, friendly, and enjoy jumping and playing in the garden.

They are perfect for your Easter or Spring-themed portrait sessions. There is nothing more iconically springtime than baby animals amid blooming flowers, and here at our farm studio you get it all. However, if baby goats are not your first choice, we will also have live baby bunnies and live baby chicks.

Daisy and Stan are always willing to play and make new friends, so please don’t hesitate to come down to the farm for your ideal Easter Portrait session.

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The average year of High School is punctured with big moments filled with excitement and celebration. Your prom can be one of these occasions. It’s a time specially reserved for glamour and elegance, allowing you to express a more sophisticated side to your classmates who are used to seeing one version of you everyday.

Prom is an opportunity to wear your dream dress, pamper yourself after a long school year, and look absolutely stunning. Your dress speaks volumes about who are right at this moment. Let it speak on forever and capture the attitude and flair of your newly revealed self in professional, glamorous portraits. Immortalize the confidence you feel in your perfect dress, be unafraid to show it off!

You will never forget your prom dress, but the memories of how you looked and felt in it might fade as you grow and change. At Unique Image Photography we love giving you the chance to save these precious moments because they artfully express all that you are right now. Being on the cusp of adulthood is an exciting time. Let us give you beautiful tools to remember it.

We hope to see you soon!

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