3 Steps for Harnessing Inspiration in Your Creative Process

March 26, 2019

When I was growing up my childhood bestie (and best friend of nearly 30 years) had an infatuation with Winnie the Pooh that I could never fully understand. In middle school, she carried a Pooh-themed diaper bag as a purse, because that’s what you do when you’re just dipping your toes into your own individuality--and she wore it proudly. I suppose my gray hairs have lent me the ability to hear the profound intertwined with the simple, because some of the quotes from the movie “Christopher Robin” brought my whole house of cards tumbling down... and those are the moments when I know a new image is being birthed. This is how I cultivate my creative process. These are my 3 steps to harnessing inspiration in your creative process and photography.

Lauren Midgley is a Conceptual Fine Art Portrait Photographer based in Norman, OK

Clouded Perspective: How shifting your perspective can shift your outcome

March 05, 2019

In photography perspective is everything. As photographers and creatives we make a living from selling our perspective. We see what others don’t, we make it reality, and people pay us for that. But what do you do when clouded thinking alters your perspective and renders you stuck? What do you do when your perspective becomes the very thing that holds you prisoner to your circumstance? You have to shift.

2019: The Year of Freedom

January 31, 2019

A growing number of you have asked to hear more about my work and process. I have been listening! But you should know — sometimes it takes every ounce of spare energy just to create after ubering children and all the other responsibilities I have as a wife and mother of 3; mustering words to accompany my work for a post on the various social media platforms sometimes makes my room turn sideways. And sometimes I create for the very purpose of not having words. With my dream being to have my works displayed in galleries, on book covers , and beyond from coast to coast, it will be vitally important for me to better articulate my heart, my process, and my value for those whom it reaches.

Wonder + Light, LLC

Lauren Midgley is a conceptual fine art photographer who shares stream-of-consciousness writings around topics of fine art photography, the convergence of art + faith, and cultivation of the creative process. She is a multifaceted artist, teacher, and mentor whose expertise speak to both the spiritual and human condition while broadening the practice of artistic expression. Her works have been shown in Galleries in Austin, New York City, Denver, North Carolina and Oklahoma CIty.

3 Steps for Harnessing Inspiration in Your Creative Process

Clouded Perspective: How shifting your perspective can shift your outcome

2019: The Year of Freedom

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Wonder + Light, LLC

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Lauren Midgley lives in a dream world. Although she’s very much down-to-earth as a wife, mother of three youngsters with dog and cat underfoot, a fantasy landscape is never far away.