Everybody, meet Michele B. 💖 Michele is the creator of Sewing Thru It, a wonderful community dedicated to helping women feel confident in clothes that fit their real bodies! Michelle is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I’m here in California. Yet we were able to come together virtually and create these beautiful photographs without ever being in the same room! That’s the magic of remote photography! 📸✨ I absolutely love being able to connect with incredible people, capture their personalities, and help bring their visions to life, no matter where they are in the world. Michelle, congratulations! It was such a pleasure working with you and bringing your beautiful energy to the camera! ❤️ And guess what, everybody? We’re just getting started! More winners from our very first 7-Day Challenge will be featured soon, and we’ve got another exciting winner, Sharon, coming up tomorrow! 🎉 @Sharon Horne-Ellstrom 🎬 Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make our very first challenge so special! We don’t just capture images. We create possibilities. 🎬📸 CLICK CLICK BOOM! Photography by Cristal 💖

🎂💕 And What a Year It’s Been! 📸✨ Today is my birthday, and I’ve been reflecting on this past year and just how much my life has changed. If you had told me a year ago that I would be running my own online photography community, meeting incredible people from all over the world, and photographing people without ever having to leave my home, I don’t know if I would have believed you! I’ve been a photographer for over 20 years, but I never imagined that technology would allow me to take something I’ve loved my entire life and share it with people across the globe. And yet, here we are! ❤️ What started as a love for capturing beautiful images has turned into something so much bigger. I’ve had the privilege of helping people see themselves in a whole new light. I’ve watched confidence grow right before my eyes. I’ve seen people light up when they see their photographs, sometimes in ways they never expected. And somewhere along the way, something else happened. I found my people. This community has brought so many wonderful human beings into my life. People from different countries, different backgrounds, different walks of life, all coming together to learn, create, encourage, and support one another. Some of you started as members, some became clients, and so many of you have become friends. And that means more to me than you could ever know. At 58 years young, I’m not slowing down. If anything, I feel like I’m just getting started! I’m learning, growing, creating, publishing, dreaming bigger, and discovering new possibilities every single day. And the most beautiful part? I get to wake up every morning and do something I absolutely love. That’s a gift I don’t take for granted. So today, on my birthday, I want to say THANK YOU. Thank you for being here. Thank you for trusting me with your photographs. Thank you for sharing your stories, your smiles, your encouragement, and your friendship. You’ve made this past year one I’ll never forget. Here’s to another year of beautiful faces, incredible connections, new adventures, and dreams we haven’t even imagined yet.

Meet Scott Suttr, author of The Boy and the Log, with two exciting new book releases coming soon! 📚 I had the pleasure of working with Scott again during a LIVE Remote Photography Session, capturing lifestyle photographs that reflect his personality and adventurous spirit! From Hollywood to Australia, bringing professional photography right to your doorstep! ❤️📸

Leadership is not only about what you build for yourself. It is about what becomes possible for other people because you built it. Those words really made me think about why I created Photography by Cristal. After decades as a Hollywood actress, international model, and professional photographer, I've learned something important. A beautiful photograph can change the way someone sees themselves. ❤️ I've experienced it firsthand through my LIVE Remote Headshot Sessions, photographing people in Sweden, the UK, Australia, Canada, and even the West Bank, all while sitting right here in Los Angeles! But the most rewarding part isn't how far my photography reaches. It's hearing someone say they've finally found a photograph of themselves they LOVE! It's watching their confidence grow. It's knowing that something I've learned over the years can make a difference in someone else's life. And that's exactly why I created this community! I want you to learn how to see yourself through a photographer's eyes. To understand lighting, discover your best angles, feel comfortable being photographed, and recognize the beauty that's already there. With more than 240 of you here, I want to make sure we're creating something meaningful together. ❤️ So here's my question for YOU: What's the ONE thing you wish you could change about how you look or feel in photographs? I'd love to hear your answers because what matters to YOU helps me decide what we learn together next! 📸❤️

I’m so excited to share this with you: my first book, I Escaped Hollywood, Barely., is now live on Amazon in paperback and Kindle! It’s a collection of true short stories from my memoir about modeling and acting in Hollywood and Japan in the 1980s: 🎬 My best friend on Sunset Boulevard ✂️ The haircut that took me from tears to a billboard on Sunset ✈️ Leaving home for Tokyo at fifteen 📸 Nine auditions a day 💳 The only Visa card I ever needed 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNWDLF11 If you read it, an Amazon review would mean the world to me. Even one sentence helps. 💛 Cristal