🎉 I'm celebrating my ONE-YEAR anniversary on Skool, and YOU'RE invited! What an incredible year it's been! I've reinvented my photography business, connected with amazing people around the world, and learned so much along the way! ❤️ And I want to celebrate with YOU! 🎬 LIVE Anniversary Celebration! 📅 Saturday, November 14th ⏰ 10 AM Pacific 📍 Right here in Photography by Cristal! 🎁 ANNIVERSARY HEADSHOT GIVEAWAY! The FIRST THREE MEMBERS to comment below will each WIN a professional LIVE Remote Headshot Session during our anniversary celebration! 📸 I'll personally direct your lighting, posing, and expressions and capture your new professional headshots LIVE! All you need is your smartphone, a hands-free stand, and natural window light! Whether you're getting photographed or just stopping by to celebrate, I'd love to see you there! ❤️ COMMENT BELOW to claim one of the THREE headshot spots! 🎬 Lights, Camera, Celebrate! 🥳

@Jo C 📸 Jo is building her own Skool community, Team Breakthrough, focused on taking action, reaching goals, and celebrating progress! I especially loved Jo's answer when I asked what was stopping her from getting a professional headshot: "I want it to be the real me, not AI generated." Jo, you're speaking my language! 😂❤️ That's exactly why I photograph real people LIVE, capturing every image myself! So happy to have you here! ❤️📸

@Janay Trevillion 💛 I’m so happy to welcome @Janay Trevillion to Photography by Cristal! 💛 Janay was one of the very first people I photographed when I started my remote headshots, live from her home in Atlanta. That gorgeous yellow dress, that radiant smile, that boss energy. I captured it myself, and these are still some of my favorite shots. Janay runs The AI Shoppe, a community of 880 creators learning to build with AI, going from curious and overwhelmed to clear and confident. If AI is on your list, check it out: https://www.skool.com/the-empire-room-4163/about?ref=6210393648bb4c78aa4df4b17d20c8dd Welcome, Janay. I’m so glad you’re here. 💗 Cristal

@Riley Saint Remember when I was being super careful about who I let into my community, and Claude basically told me, “Cristal, give people a chance. You don’t have to be so suspicious about everybody.” 😂 Well… I listened. I approved another member. Something about the profile photo bothered me, so tonight I did a Google reverse-image search. Stock photo. Then I thought, okay, let me double-check before I jump to conclusions. I put the same photo into TinEye. Three matches. Shutterstock AND Adobe Stock. 🤦‍♀️ So I’m NOT saying I know the person behind the account is fake. I don’t know that. But I DO know the woman in the profile picture is a stock image being used as the member’s profile photo. Riley, this is the SECOND time I’ve caught something like this. 😂 Apparently Detective Cristal needs to stop second-guessing herself. Scooby and I are back on security duty. 🐾🔎😂 And yes, it is after midnight, and apparently THIS is why I’m not sleeping. 🤣

I’m so excited to share that I’m now contributing creatively to Skool Magazine! 🔥 I’ve spent so many years telling stories through photography, and now I get to bring some of that creativity into the magazine too. I’m already having way too much fun with it. 😂❤️ And while I’m celebrating, I have to share Skool Magazine Issue 12 again because my son Cash Vancarson has his own incredible feature inside! 🚌🔥 Cash’s story and the Skool Bus spread start on page 22 — and yes, this proud mama is sharing it again. 😂❤️ 📖 Read Skool Magazine here: Skool Magazine Issue 12 Photography, storytelling, my son in the magazine, and now getting to contribute myself creatively… October, you are showing OFF! 😂🔥❤️ HELP ME CHOOSE! 📸🐈🚌 I’m playing with different visual concepts as I begin contributing creatively to Skool Magazine, and I want YOUR eyes on these! I’ve posted four different images below. Which one is your favorite — 1, 2, 3, or 4? Don’t overthink it. 😂 Which one made you stop and look? Drop your number in the comments! ❤️🔥 And yes… the Skool cat has officially entered the building. 🐈😂 Skool Magazine