Once upon a time (several months ago), I watched the Disney movie, Brave, and I became obsessed with Merida’s red, wild hair. And that is, honestly, the way this whole idea was formed. I wanted to photograph someone with hair like that and decided to do my first styled shoot based on the movie. Over-ambitious? […]

Several months ago, I had this wild inspiration. I was sitting in my living room watching a movie and I thought, “I want to photograph this.” As I started writing down what all I would need, I realized this would be a much larger undertaking then I had imagined. I am a photographer. I arrive […]

For the past several days I have been battling a headache on top of a migraine. It’s brutal. But it wasn’t until 2 days into it that I realized we had run out of regular coffee and I had been drinking decaf. My body is revolting. And now I understand that caffeine IS a drug. […]

It’s been said so many times. There’s power in dreaming out loud. In writing dreams down and speaking them out loud. It’s terrifying. It’s paralyzing. It’s scary. And fear is always the grip that holds us back. For so long, I’ve allowed fear to hold me back from my dreams. But I spoke those dreams […]

I’ve just been giddy to tell y’all this! (And my guess is that you probably clicked over to here because you were just sure I was going to say that I’m pregnant. While babies are wonderful little human beings, there is no mini-Crall on the way. Sorry, folks. But to us, this is something nearly as […]

I feel like I must put pen to paper–or fingers to the keyboard–right away or I’ll lose what I want to say about this experience. It had both it’s highs and lows. (The lowest being Monday night after extreme exhaustion when I declared that I have no talent and I’ll surely have to quit photographing. […]