I loved playing along with ColorColorLovers, searching for color wherever I went. I only wish I had had more time to wander around outside, hunting color and taking photographs. With such a brutal winter, it just wasn't happening. I was indoors most of the time, so it I had to be creative with my color hunt. And so I decided each week I would round up little things from around the house in that week's color and snap a photo of them all together. It was a lot of fun. I loved walking around the …
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What I Read | January-February Edition
This year, the reading has definitely slowed down. It's kind of frustrating, actually. I just have so many books I want to read. But between reading one very long book and adding the Skillshare class into the mix, leisurely reading hasn't been the highest priority. However, I did manage to read a handful of books so far this year. Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers by Leslie Leyland Fields | I would definitely recommend this book to anyone coming from an abusive family home. It walks …
March, A Month of Letters
I don't know about you, but February was the longest month. It was colder than cold. It was busier than busy. By the end, my head was spinning and I was over it. And then we flipped the calendar to March. As I often do, I was trying to figure out how I can make this month better, more restorative and less frantic. To be honest, much of the frantic-ness came from getting all of the pieces of my class together, then pushing publish and starting to promote it -- that's a lot of work! With a …
My New Class on Skillshare
You guys! I've been keeping this project under lock and key, but today I'm ready to shout it from the rooftops: I'm teaching a class on Skillshare and today it's live! The class is called Creative Self Portraits: Going Beyond the Selfie. Just like the title suggests, it's all about my approach to creative self portraits. From the class description: Join photographer Lindsay Crandall as she shows you how she approaches creative self portraits and beautiful, ordinary moments. In this twenty …
Letting Go of Perfect
When I was younger, I was paralyzed by perfectionism. If I couldn't do something right (and by right I mean absolutely perfect), I wouldn't do it. I collected notebooks, beautiful ones, and would never write in them because if I wrote in them I'd probably end up crossing something out and they wouldn't be perfect anymore. I remember saying that to a friend in college, asking her if she ever felt bad about crossing stuff out and making a mess of something beautiful, and she answered incredulous, …