Tallahassee Photographer
Light-and-bright timeless lifestyle photography for joyful families
Sarah Gray is an award winning Tallahassee photographer who was awarded a Master Photographer Certification in 2022 with the NAPCP . She has the privilege of creating soft, natural, lifestyle maternity, baby, and family photography in Tallahassee, and across North Florida and South Georgia and has been named among the best newborn photographers in Tallahassee with an A+ rating in 2021 and 2022 by Expertise.com, as well as among the best Tallahassee Family photographers by Peerspace.com
Hi there, I'm
Sarah
I'm passionate about creating beautiful, emotive images that are reflections of natural moments filled with love. Lifestyle newborn photography is the heart of my business. That foundation then extends to all stages of family life, from maternity through your family's growing years.
As a mom of 4, I know how quickly the years go by. I know that as quickly as my nest was filled, one day it will empty.
If you're looking for a Tallahassee photographer who takes natural, gently guided photos that aren't overly posed and doesn't use props, then we'll be a great match.
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On location maternity photography for expecting mothers in and around Tallahassee. If you are looking for high-end portrait photographers in the North Florida and South Georgia region then learn more about working with me.
At-home lifestyle newborn photography for the mom who isn't into props or crazy poses in Tallahassee, North Florida, and South Georgia. If you want beautiful, gently posed, love filled newborn photos then learn more about what I offer.
Joyful family photography for the modern family in and around North Florida. If you're looking for a photographer that will capture your family in a fun and relaxed way then learn more about my services.
My aunt told me this when I announced that I was pregnant with our first baby. Those words have stuck with me daily and have become the charge for my business. There are moments on the parenting journey that will challenge and try us, but ultimately they pass and we are on to the next moment. Soon, the sleepless nights will fade and those foggy days will be replaced with the bounciness of toddlerhood. Photography helps us remember the journey and the joys.
Now, as the mom of both toddlers and teens, I desire to see the goodness in each day, and bring my best self to it. I hope you'll do the same and allow me to help you remember that goodness in an image.
My favorite motherhood quote
“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure for visiting, reading, music, and drawing.
Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!”
-Elizabeth Prentiss, "Stepping Heavenward," published 1869
Recent Blog Posts
You have been wondering whether to include them.
Maybe it is the grandparents and you are not sure they will want the fuss. Maybe it is a sibling you do not see often, or a cousin who just happens to be in town. Maybe it is someone whose mobility makes you worry the session will be more complicated.
Here is what I have learned: the hesitation almost always melts away by the end.
Nobody ever walks away from a family session wishing they had included fewer people. It genuinely does not happen. What does happen is that two years later, you are looking at a photo of your kids with their grandfather and feeling deeply grateful that you said yes.
This photo is of my son, Reider, with my grandfather, Jacob Reider. Taken on a whim during a visit to see him in Virginia. I am forever grateful for these photos. My grandfather went home to our Lord this month and these photos mean more to me today than in previous 15 years since they were taken.
When you are on the fence, lean toward yes. We will figure out the logistics.
I have four kids of my own.
I am not saying that to suggest I have parenting figured out. I am saying it because when you show up to your session worried that your toddler is going to lose it, or that your big kid is going to refuse to cooperate, or that everyone is going to look stiff and weird - I genuinely understand that concern.
I have lived it. More than once.
What I have also learned is that working with families as they actually are, instead of as we wish they would be on picture day, is exactly how you get photos that feel real. The beautiful chaos is part of it. I have a lot of tricks, and I genuinely enjoy the process.
You do not need a perfect family to get beautiful photos. You just need a photographer who knows what she is doing.
I photographed the same extended family twice.
The first time, it rained. They were troopers about it. We had already scoped out a covered porch at the location just in case the weather had other ideas, and that porch became our backdrop. We made something beautiful out of what could have been a wash.
The second time, they came back with new additions. Beach house on Alligator Point. Grandparents out on the water with the grandchildren. Big group moments and smaller family units. Easy, relaxed, and real.
What I remember most about both sessions is the feeling at the end. A kind of collective exhale. Like everyone knew they had just done something that mattered and would keep mattering long after that day.
That is the thing about showing up even when the conditions are not perfect. The photos do not know it rained.
Read more about Extended family/Multigenerational family photos in this month`s blog post. Link in bio.
If you have been sitting on this and are not quite sure yet, I want to make it simple.
This is a short session. It is designed to be low-pressure, low-chaos (or at least managed chaos), and genuinely doable for real families with real kids.
You do not need to have it all together. You do not need perfectly behaved children or a color-coordinated wardrobe already sorted. I will send you a guide. I will handle the rest.
It is five to seven minutes. We will get photos you actually love. I mean that.
Details and booking are at the link in bio.
Five Spots. One Date. A setting that only looks like this for about three weeks out of the year.
I am not trying to manufacture urgency here. The blooms genuinely do not wait, and the calendar genuinely does not have room for everyone who wants a session this spring.
If your family has been on your to-do list for a while, now is a really good time to actually do something about it.
April 11 at Maclay Gardens. $275. A wardrobe guide, a focused session, and your images delivered in two weeks.
Link to book in bio.
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Sarah Gray creates timeless and joyful images that are designed for living room walls and photo albums. A tallahassee photographer, Sarah Gray also serves Thomasville, Crawfordville, St. Marks, Gainesville and throughout the panhandle of north Florida and south Georgia.
email us | sarah@sarahgray.com
telephone (850) 321-0208
located in tallahassee, florida
