Photo / Social / Creative
Create something worth keeping.
Create something worth sharing.
Photography, social content and creative work, based in Kingsville, Texas.
Planning something custom? Start an inquiry.
More than a photo
Work that keeps working.
By Skyla is photography backed by years of work in social media, digital strategy and creative campaigns. Whatever you book me for, the work is built to do something once it exists — not just to look good in a folder.
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Photo
The moments you want to keep.
Portraits / Couples / Grads / Athletes / Sports / Events
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Social
The moments made to be shared.
Wedding Content / Brand Content / Events / Short-Form Video
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Creative
Creative Direction / Campaigns / Media Days / Custom Projects
Selected work + results
Creative with a purpose.
I care how the work looks, and what it does once it is published. Most of my experience has been inside organizations where content had to reach a specific audience and produce a specific result.
Selected results from Mia’s professional work.
3.37M+
Content views
+230%
Accounts reached
12
Camp brands supported
$50K+
Campaign revenue
Javelina Nation
Texas A&M University–Kingsville
Communicate an institution's priorities without the content feeling institutional. The answer was to put students at the centre and build every piece around how they actually use their phones.
Result: 3.37M+ views.
Read the case study →
CampGroup
CampGroup LLC
Twelve camp brands, each with its own culture and audience, sharing one production schedule. One repeatable process, adapted per brand rather than templated across them.
Result: twelve brand identities supported in a single summer.
Read the case study →$50K+
Campaigns and partnerships
Skyla Events
Founder, 2019–22 · New Zealand
Build and grow an independent events brand through creative campaigns, partnerships and community engagement.
Result: $50K+ generated through campaigns and partnerships.
Read the case study →Selected work completed in professional roles for the organizations named.
It started with borrowed cameras.
Several of them, lent by friends while I worked out what I was doing. What began with graduations and sports grew into photography, social content and campaigns—and By Skyla is all of it under one name.
Experience across
Higher education / Athletics / Camps / Events / Small business / Public communications
How it works.
01
Inquire
Tell me what you need, when you need it and where it will take place.
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Plan
We confirm the creative direction, logistics, deliverables and investment.
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Create
The session, event or content day takes place with clear direction and room for genuine moments.
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Deliver
Final photographs or content are delivered through an organized online experience.
Where I work.
Based in Kingsville, Texas and available throughout South Texas for select projects. Travel is available by request.
Where a project needs travel, transportation, fuel, parking, tolls, a rental vehicle or accommodation may be added to the quote. Anything like that is confirmed in writing before you book, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Let's create something.
Whether you need photographs to keep, content to share or an idea brought to life, tell me what you're working on.
Photo
The moments you want to keep.
Portraits, couples, graduations, athletes, games and events. Some sessions are planned down to the location and the outfit; others are two hours of a day that was going to happen anyway. Both are worth photographing properly.
Game coverage · Western Illinois University Athletics
What each service is
A personal session
You, a couple or a group, at an agreed location and time. Directed, unhurried, built around images you'll want on a wall or a profile.
Athlete portraits
A planned shoot in kit or uniform, built for an athlete's own channels, recruitment or a team's roster set. Not shot during competition.
Live game coverage
I photograph the game as it happens. No direction, no reshoots, and the edit is chosen for action, emotion and usable frames rather than a set list.
Event photography
Coverage of a fixture in time: a ceremony, a launch, a fundraiser, a camp day. Documentary in approach, with a short list of must-have moments agreed in advance.
Media day or team production
A planned production for a group: multiple setups, a shot list, several athletes or staff moving through, and a delivery set organized by person and by use.
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Starting prices
What "starting at" means
Every number above is a starting point, not a fixed rate. The final figure depends on how long the session runs, how many people are involved, what you need delivered and where it takes place.
Travel is quoted separately when it's required. Additional session time is available. The number of final images depends on the session and on which frames are genuinely worth keeping—I'd rather deliver a strong set than hit a quota.
Everything is confirmed in writing before any payment is made, so you always know the total before you commit.
Social + Creative
The moments made to be shared.
This is not a folder of clips handed over at the end of the day. Social content is planned before it's shot: what the account is trying to do, who it's talking to, which formats that platform actually rewards, and what you'll have ready to post when it's over.
I've spent the last three years making content inside organizations where it had to perform, not just exist. That's the part most content days are missing.
Published work
Planned, filmed and cut for the platform it ran onEach of these started as a brief and a plan, not a camera roll. Shot vertical, cut for the feed, and published on the account it was made for.
Mascot content series
@javelinanation · Campus reel
1,140 likes
Night in the life
CampGroup · Recruitment reel
608.6K views
Arrival day
CampGroup · Arrival-day reel
14.3K views
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Wedding content creation
Candid, phone-first coverage of your wedding day, made for sharing. I move through the day capturing the in-between moments—getting ready, the walk in, the toasts, the dance floor—and hand back content that's ready to post while people still want to see it.
What this is not: this is not wedding photography and it is not videography. It doesn't replace your photographer or your filmmaker, and it isn't designed to. It sits alongside them, covering the fast, social, right-now version of the day that a photographer delivering in six weeks cannot.
Wedding content creation is a newer part of By Skyla and I'm taking on a small number of weddings while I build it out. If that sounds like what you're after, tell me about your day.
Starting at $350
Extended coverage, additional deliverables and travel are quoted individually.
Starting prices
What you receive
Every project is scoped before it starts, so what lands in your hands is agreed in advance. Depending on what we plan, that includes:
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Evidence
Published performance from short-form content I planned, shot and edited. Figures are taken from platform insights. Work produced in a professional role is credited to the account it was made for.
608.6K
Views
One reel, camp counselor series
50.6K
Likes
Same reel
70.7K
Views
Pickleball feature
Night in the life of a camp counselor
By Skyla
608.6K views · 50.6K likes · 1,033 saves · 1,532 shares
Pickleball bag feature
By Skyla
70.7K views · 356 likes · 26 saves
Camp arrival day
Camps with Mia
14.3K views · 460 likes · 47 shares
Hester’s Cafe, Corpus Christi
By Skyla
11.9K views · 680 likes · 124 saves
Reunion day at camp
Camps with Mia · Camp Danbee
10.8K views · 327 likes · 40 shares
How to champagne pop for graduation pictures
By Skyla
6,160 views · 459 likes · 24 saves
Mascot introduction
Javelina Nation
1,140 likes · 35 comments · 287 shares
End of season, camp
Greenwoods Camp · Lake of the Woods
527 likes · 24 shares
First day of class advice
Javelina Nation
397 likes · 24 shares
Formal night
Lake of the Woods Camp
300 likes · 7 shares
Decades night
Lake of the Woods Camp
276 likes · 14 shares
Javelina basketball
By Skyla · Javelina Nation
219 likes · 10 shares
Creative
The idea behind it all.
Some projects don't fit a session. They need a concept before anyone picks up a camera: what the idea is, who it's for, what gets made, and how it all comes together on the day.
That's what Creative is. Concept development, production planning and multiple deliverables, handled as one project rather than a booking.
What it covers
Creative direction · Campaign concepts · Media days · Brand storytelling · Social campaign assets · Graphic design · Recruitment storytelling · Custom projects
Good fit for
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Proof
Javelina Nation
Texas A&M University–Kingsville
Communicate an institution’s priorities without the content feeling institutional. Students at the centre, built around how they actually use their phones.
Result: 3.37M+ views and a 230% increase in accounts reached.
CampGroup
CampGroup LLC
Twelve camp brands, one production schedule. A repeatable process — immersion, identify, create, distribute, learn — adapted per brand rather than templated across them.
Result: twelve distinct brand identities supported in a single summer.
CampGroup · summer 2026
Skyla Events
Founder, 2019–22
Build and grow an independent events brand through creative campaigns, partnerships and community engagement.
Result: $50K+ generated through campaigns and partnerships.
Custom quote based on scope.
Tell me what you're trying to make and I'll come back with a scope, a timeline and a number.
About
It started with borrowed cameras.
Four chapters, in the order they happened.
01 — The beginning
Cameras that belonged to other people.
Not one camera — several, over a couple of years, lent by different friends who were willing to hand over expensive equipment to someone still working out what she was doing with it.
I photographed graduations and sports because those were the things happening around me, and because someone always needed photos of them. I own my own camera now. That matters less than what happened in between.
02 — What it became
From graduations to campaigns.
What started as graduation and sports photographs turned into something wider: athletics, higher education, live events, summer camps, digital marketing, social strategy, video and campaigns.
I learned how a photograph works differently on a poster than in a feed. I learned that content which looks good and content which does its job are not automatically the same thing, and that the gap between them is usually a planning problem.
By Skyla brings all of it under one name. The name is new. The work behind it isn’t.
03 — Where I’m from
Lower Hutt to Kingsville.
I’m from Lower Hutt, in Wellington, New Zealand — Māori, of Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Porou descent. I came to the United States to play NCAA golf and stayed to work.
I earned a B.A. in General Studies with emphases in Political Science and Sociology from Texas A&M University–Kingsville, and graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
Since then I’ve lived and worked in several different parts of the country, which is probably why I’m comfortable arriving somewhere new and finding the story in it quickly.
04 — How I work
The reaction, not the pose.
The way I work comes down to paying attention. I’m interested in people, and I’m interested in the moments nobody has thought to point a camera at yet — the reaction rather than the pose, the walk back rather than the trophy.
Curiosity has taken me across countries, industries and creative disciplines, and it’s the thing I bring most consistently to a job.
I’m still grateful to the friends who lent me their cameras. I’m also still learning, which I think is the point.
Home
New Zealand
Former life
NCAA golfer
Always
Holding a camera
Pricing
Where each service starts, what changes the number, and how the process works. If you'd rather just ask, that's fine too—tell me what you're planning and I'll send a figure back.
"Starting at" means the base for a straightforward version of that service. Time, group size, number of setups, deliverables and location all move it. Nothing is charged that hasn't been agreed in writing first.
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Good to know
Travel. Local sessions take place at a set of agreed locations. Travel beyond that is available by request, and any transportation, fuel, parking, tolls, rental vehicle or accommodation costs are added to the quote and confirmed before you book.
Image use. Personal sessions include use for your own personal and social use. Commercial use—advertising, paid promotion, or a business using images to sell something—is licensed separately and priced into the project from the start. If you're a business, assume commercial licensing applies and mention it in your inquiry.
Custom quotes. Tell me the scope, the date and the location. I'll come back with what's included, what it costs and what I'd need from you. Nothing is booked until you've approved it in writing.
Questions
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Tell me what you're creating.
The more you can tell me here, the more useful my first reply will be. If you're not sure about a field, leave it—we can work it out.
Prefer email? mia@byskyla.co
Inquiry form
Send me the details
Nine short fields: what you are planning, where, roughly when and what you would like to end up with. It reaches my inbox directly.
Open the inquiry formOr reach me directly
Email works just as well. Tell me the date, the location and what you are planning.
mia@byskyla.coReady to book a session?
Portrait sessions and mini days →Book a session
Two session types are open for direct booking right now. Everything else — graduation, athlete portraits, games, events, media days, brand and wedding content — starts with a short conversation about logistics, so those go through the inquiry form.
Limited availability
September mini day
September 5 · Kingsville, Texas
30-minute session · Professionally edited gallery · $65
Full payment through the booking site confirms the session.
If weather affects the session, I’ll contact you to reschedule. If rescheduling doesn’t work, a full refund will be available.
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Portraits + couples
A directed, unhurried session for you or the two of you, at an agreed location.
Starting at $125
Duration, locations and payment terms are confirmed on the booking form.
Choose a timeEverything else
Graduation, athlete portraits, games, events, media days, brand and wedding content. Not on the booking calendar yet — tell me the date and the scope and I will come back with a quote.
Graduation from $150 · Athlete from $150
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Mia Scrimgeour
Marketing / Communications / Creative
Part of By Skyla
A marketing, communications and creative professional working at the intersection of strategy and storytelling: understanding an audience, building a plan, and creating the photography, video and content that bring it to life. Experience across higher education, hospitality, government communications and entrepreneurship.
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Case studies
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Completed in a professional role for the organization named. Not a By Skyla client engagement.
Career
Education
B.A. General Studies
Political Science + Sociology
Texas A&M University–Kingsville
4.0 GPA
By Skyla
Photo / Social / Creative
mia@byskyla.co
Based in Kingsville, Texas · Available throughout South Texas and for select travel.
© 2026 By Skyla. Photography by Mia Scrimgeour unless otherwise credited.