Sara and Tyler, thank you for having me be a witness of your love and commitment to one another. I pray your marriage is surrounded and full of love, life and hope for the future. 

xxoo

Today the light dawns clearly. Yesterday it did not. I think some days are just meant to be set aside for tears. There’s nothing to do about it other than to let yourself cry. It’s exhausting living in a world with unrelenting and powerful input. Yesterday I was tired. And I guess because I was tired I felt hopeless. I was surprised by the level of loving response that came from my little online community – and in the end I did get up, wipe my face, I turned on the soundtrack that a friend suggested and I ran. Actually I felt like I was flying. Today my legs are sore, but my heart is light and I remember – I remember my own dreams in the middle of a chaotic world. I remember that I have overcome so much, that I have fought so hard, and it is ok to be tired and need to cry sometimes. 

March reminds us that winter does have an end and that warm weather is oh, so close. In North Carolina we have perfect warm, sunny days followed by cool nights, still waking up with frost on our windshields. We have the promise of spring, of blooms exploding to life around us very very soon. If we will just hold on and wait a hot minute, the trees will sigh a deep breath of waking and burst into life. Not that they haven’t been alive, it’s just all been going on underground and on the inside. 

That’s how I feel about the last 20 years. All this growth and life has been going on inside and underground and there hasn’t been much to show for how hard the work has been, or that there has been growth in me at all. Not much that I can point to anyway. But I believe this is a season for all those inside things coming to the outside – finally. All of those perspectives that have shifted, all of the self doubt and codependency that was killed, all the trauma healing that has happened from living in a world with such hard edges, it is time to begin to see the blossoms and the sweet nourishing fruit hang heavy on the branches. 

This month I celebrate coming out of the long winter. Marching forward into the beauty and deep aliveness we have ached and longed for, the goodness that we have held out hope we would see. What I do know is that it doesn’t often look like we thought it would when we were in the dead of the dark night of our souls. I am holding out for it to be so much better than we could have dreamed. 

So in the month of March, I am holding a contest of sorts – I want to hear your Stories of overcoming. I want to hear what struggle or hopeless moment you courageously overcame, and I’m going to choose one to feature in my blog. The story of overcoming I choose will be featured with portraits from a photoshoot – gifted from me to you. I am in the mood to celebrate courage, to celebrate marching forward in the face of difficulty and pain, I want to celebrate your story, even if you’re still in the middle of it, even if you have no idea how it will end, or even if you feel like you somehow failed in moving through it perfectly… maybe especially then, because we need to be able to look at our darkest, inside winter seasons and see the beauty in the imperfection. I want to hear it even if you think – oh it wasn’t that big of a deal, or no one wants to hear that, or but it didn’t work out the way I wanted. 

I say, let’s take a look at your story, at all the angles and see it through a different lens, and learn to see our struggles as what they are – pathways to beauty. 

Submit your story to sallie@sparrowsongstudios.com. Be sure to put how you would like to be contacted. If you know of someone with an inspiring story, please share this with them and be sure to tell them how valuable their story is and how much we all need to hear it. 

I can’t wait to hear your stories. In the meantime friends, march on into beauty. 

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You have known me as Sallie Mosely Photography, and now I am so excited to announce that I am now Sparrow Song Studios!
To celebrate the launch of Sparrow Song Studios, I'm thrilled to invite you to receive a new offer every month this year!! Hooray! Yippee!! Yahooo!!! This month's offer is 50% off your entire gallery of portrait photos when you book in February.

After the heart rending craziness of 2020, I think we deserve a year of happy things.

Sound good?

Great!! Here we gooo!!!

February's offer is dear to my heart. It is LOVE MONTH!!! So anything love related:

• getting married love
• family love
• loving on newborns
• Be my Valentine love
• siblings loving on one another
• grandkids loving on their grandparents
• fur parents loving on their fur babies!
• Dream big and whatever kind of expression of love you can come up with, we will make a session out of it and you will receive
• %50 off the entire gallery of photos!

CONTACT ME to book your session now.

So, click here to message me to schedule your session or consultation.

And until then my friends, Spread the LOVE!

 

I’ll start :) 
 

Looking back, I am so thankful for my son, Arden. He was diagnosed with Addison’s Disease this year after having an adrenal crisis that landed him in the ICU
for a week. I can’t even begin to language my gratitude for the doctors, nurses, friends, and family that surrounded us through that time. There has never been a time when I have felt more covered and loved. My mind is still blown thinking about it. Now we are looking ahead to our new normal, living with Addison’s, and feeling so hopeful for a rich and beautiful future for our son. 

So that’s home — and now work life - 

I’m super thankful for this photography business. I’m thankful for every client that has trusted me with documenting their once-in-a-lifetime days, and the every day, ordinary moments. My heart swells with gratitude for the trust given to me and for the clients that have become dear friends. Looking ahead this year I am thrilled at what is to come. I’ll be sharing more details about that as it unfolds. But for now…

I want to celebrate this glorious New Year with a gift to you in honor of Looking Back and Moving Forward, 2021!! #LookingBackandforwarding ? (Haha, anyone have a better suggestion?)

So here’s the skinny. (yay!)

• Returning clients get 25% off any purchase from a past session. Come on, admit it, you always meant to make that canvas or design that album, but your pictures are just living a sad and lonely life somewhere on your computer, right? (I know because I have literally thousands of pictures of my family I’ve never printed!) #leadbyexample (hahaha) In addition to the 25% off, you will get another 10% off when you refer me to a friend. Easy, right?

• New Clients get a special welcome gift when you book a session of any kind. You’ll have to wait to find out what it will be! Exciting, right??!

Click here or at the top of this page and it will zip you right over to my website where you can contact me for a fresh link to your gallery. 

I’m looking forward to speaking with you!

Warmest Regards and hope for tomorrow,

Sallie Mosely

salliemoselyphotography.com

Karen was interviewed for InD'tale Magazine and appeared in their July 11th issue. If you're a fan of young adult paranormal stories, you have to check her out. Here's what we captured for that interview. To read the interview you can find it here.

I was thrilled when Kim asked me to update his headshots for him, as he is entering a new chapter of his adventure in Lawyering (that's a word, right?), and here are my favorites from our session together. You can bail me out of trouble any day, Kim!

This is real life, right here. Warm and glowy real life :)

(p.s. be sure you make it to the end, you'll be so happy you did! All the feels are at the end ;)

  TTh

Getting real. It sounds like such a good idea, like such a nice little sentiment. Lately I have been challenged on every front to stop hiding, to be even more transparent and GET REAL - especially in the area of my photography business. It's a scary thought, those two little words. It's a risk. Everyone might not like your... realness. Some may choose to go a different direction, hire someone else, or worse; not like your facebook page. ahh the turmoil.

The truth is, the more real you are, the more transparent and honest; the more the people that you really connect with will come your way. I believe this is true, anyway. So I am taking steps (even if they are little baby ones) to put my real heart out there and connect with the people that want someone genuine, someone that loves people, someone that wants your wedding day pictures to be even better than you want them to be. Hard to believe, I know, because we have such dreamy ideas of how our day will end up. Me? Full disclosure: I hate having my picture taken.

 HATE it.

Baby step #1. I feel awkward and stupid and at some point during the whole thing i want to cry. so, because it's hard for me, when i see the pictures; all i can feel was how awkward i felt during the shoot. Such is life. But I am learning to be more gentle with myself, to try and get rid of those filters that tell me not to be kind to myself and embrace the beauty that i believe resides in all of us. But because I must fight through this to have my own picture taken, I totally get how hard it is for others. I feel ya, sister. We'll get through it together, and at the end of the day, you (like me) will be so happy you did it.

Anyway, in an effort to take things below the surface, my second baby step of the day is a new bio. It just makes sense that if I want to hear Your story, (and i DO!) I must be willing to share my own. So... This is me, in all my 3am writing fury. Enjoy :)

follow the arrow -----> -------> SALLIEMOSELY.COM <---- fun story inside <----------

photos courtesy of Sarah Deshields of Enowen Photography

I was so happy when Aniyah asked me to do their wedding photography. I met Aniyah at the starbucks counter inside the Ingles in our hometown. Her warmth and smile were captivating. I'll never forget the Sunday morning I was on the road early on my way to lead worship and I stopped by the Starbucks, She was working that day. I took the warm cup with overflowing gratitude, (me and early mornings do not mix) but driving away, my cup slipped and the entire contents of my grande americano fell into my floor board. Anyone that knows me, knows that there will be no singing till the starbucks is had. So I turned around and drove back and when she smiled at me and said - You're Back! - I told her what happened and then I busted into tears. Yes, again, anyone that knows me is not surprised by this, but I didn't know Aniyah, we had just met, and before I knew what was happening, she was around the corner of the counter and she threw her arms around me giving me the most reassuring hug. Then she made me another cup of coffee... for free. We have been friends ever since.

Aniyah and her husband Joel met in school eight years ago at a toga party. They have gone from friends to husband and wife and have begun this part of their adventure together across the country in California. Joel is heading off to conquer the wilderness and all it's beauty. And Aniyah?... well, i'm sure she will just  continue to fill the earth with grace. Everyone who knows them will miss them both so much. I am so honored to have been part of their day and a witness of their love. Aniyah and Joel, I pray the Father pour out his love on you and keep you and bless everything you pursue.

Here is a tiny sneak peek of their wedding day, so many more to come. 

Michelle, you walk in greatness and beauty, don't ever forget it. 

Here are some of my favorites of the shining light that is Michelle Thorne. 

A special shout out to the lovely Sweet Sarahbell, their wedding planner, and The Halls and Gardens at the Landmark for making their day so elegant and beautiful. 

Not entirely cooperating, He eventually did get away… and ran across the field.

This one of Chloe holding him down with her knees makes me laugh out loud every time i see it. She pinned him - way to go Chloe! Just wait till he's big enough to pin you!!!

Ahhh, the bliss of being a kid. Nothing like a good hill roll. Nothing at all.

 And then because they are very obliging children who love their camera toting mama dearly, they let me take a few more with the sun setting behind them. What good sports they are - and they worked it.

My sweet little Arden. He makes my heart melt with love. i am so honored to be his mommy.

I asked Chloe where she learned to stand that way - she said she was born knowing how. Lucky me :)  i guess she's the one that taught Arden. i love them so.

My darling baby boy is quickly approaching his sweet and tender two's and, no longer working in a church, I am free to pursue this passion of mine - telling people's stories with pictures. Oh, how I love it!!! I'm rested, refocused and ready to go. So, if you had trouble reaching me over the past two years to nail down a booking, fear not, I'm back on the scene and ready to come document the sites of your life :) (see, what a catchy little name)

I did a select number of shoots for some of my dear friends - here's a few shots from those sessions. 

Here's my lovely Songs of Water pals, who are currently in Australia on tour!! (not jealous at ALL)

Katie and Josh, you two are the sweetest ever - everything about your day, right down to the Jesus Storybook Bible quote during your ceremony, made me remember why I love documenting weddings!! "And they were Lovely because He loved them" -- oh tear my heart out!!! so beautiful :)

This is my lovely Lindsey-bird and her baby to be...

My Lindsey bird and her little baby to be

My friends Dave and Kathryn on their day - what a perfect afternoon glow to go with their wedding bliss :)

These are a few from my most beautiful sister and her family. I love her so.

Ok, Ok, i know - too much beauty - ahh, but i'm not done yet :)

Here's Ben and Heather for their engagement shoot (the son of my doula! I just had to do their pics!!)

I also threw in some head shots for the lovely Elisa who is one of the violinists for Songs of Water, and musician (and friend) extraordinaire 

what a smokin hot beauty.  and last but not least, my beautiful, fierce, rock and roll author-friend, Michelle. She's an inspiration and a true kindred spirit. We shot these for her website and book launch. She's amazing - here she is.

To all my lovely friends and family who I have had the honor of documenting these past two years, thank you - I love you all, you are so precious to me. I look forward to this next season of telling your story. you can check out my website at sitesofyourlife.com or call me @ 704-691-4963 to book a free consultation.