Alisha Crossley Photography

03/28/2026

05/11/2025

Still.

“Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Happy Mother's Day to the amazing women I have captured over the years! I have had the privilege of seeing your love in the most vulnerable situations and on the most precious of days. I know your heart and applaud you for being the memory keepers of your family. Your efforts to preserve and document these incredibly tender days do not go unnoticed. You are loved immensely! Here are just a FEW of the special moms I have had the honor to meet :)

06/28/2024

“You can choose to binge on bitterness or bask in your blessings.”

John B Burruss said that in his sermon almost a year ago to today. To be honest, it made me angry. My life was changing… Everything was taking a new shape without my permission. And the days and months to follow that bitterness feel like the only thing I had left to prove any of it was real.

It has taken me months to find the ability to bask again… To bask in life. To bask in the smallest gifts for our maker. A year ago feels like a long time ago now.

This week I closed on my first home by myself. It’s a tranquil little retreat just outside of Birmingham. It may be crazy to say… But I am thankful to God all of the pain. This is life after death… This is a new chapter for me and my sweet babies.

There’s so many people I have to think for helping make this a reality … Millie Burgett for being a patient realtor, Cody G. Williams for navigating me through the mortgage process with grace and skill, Jimmy Riley  stepping again every time he saw need to help me look over the property, move boxes, or deal with my momentary, emotional overwhelming🤣❤️ Carolyn Allred Childers for continuously reminding “I can” when I felt incapable. My i3 Academy family for being patient with a second time first year teacher navigating life changes … and encouraging me each step of the way. Patrick Crossley for stepping in this week and keeping our babies overtime as we both learn how to reshape what are tomorrow’s look like.

12/13/2023

10 months.
oh loves. My last post was 10 months ago. I can’t even remember the last I’ve gone that long without posting. Simply because I enthusiastically love meeting you here.
10 months ago, I thought I was coming back to life and in a way that made sense. 10 months ago I thought I knew so much more about the narrative than I did.
10 months.
I marinated in the hope of what was to come, and what appeared to be coming. And yet it did not.
But God.

I will tell the thousands of little stories from these last two months one day … Nay. From these last two years …. but today there is levity. Today, despite strep throat, storm damage, mediation and fatigue and ongoing battles… There is life.
And praise God.
Praise Him. I am thankful.
I am simply thankful for feeling the beautiful surge of life tingling throughout my limbs once again. I am thankful even in death that life is on the other side. I am thankful for rebirth after decay. And I am thankful for unfinished stories where hope oozes into the crevices.
The story looks different than I would have ever thought thought, but my heart and arms are open to God for His guidance more than ever before. I am not so sure about today, but I know about my forever and that is quite enough for me at this point. It is quite enough even in the hardest of hards.

03/07/2023

Ready to bloom.
On the brink of exploration
A year in captivity has me longing.
Rugged and Fancy Alisha Allred Crossley

02/07/2023

Choosing life.
Truth.
Story.
There’s never been a question during my 15 years behind the camera.
And in my own life, authenticity, and imperfectly, it is literally what has tied my being to my art.

And still.

These last 7 months have left me without words. Without understanding. With more gratitude for God, grace, hope of heaven, and anything any of us ever really experience on this platform. I’ve been transparent to a fault. Wearing my emotions on my sleeves at times that made others feel uncomfortable. Yet even now… As I have sit here with this - the last seven months, I cannot put into words, the gravity, of what I have experienced what is redefining my very existence and brand - my heart, my existence. I sincerely hope and pray that you’ll be patient with me more than that… I pray that you will pray for me, as I earnestly seek these big things in my creative, purposeful life. This has captured my breath in such a way that’s I don’t know how to speak to you - how to be. Sometimes it takes not doing to know how to authentically be as an artist.

10/06/2022

Friends,
I recently joined Family Promise of Birmingham as the Director of Marketing and Development. Alisha Crossley Photography is still very much alive and well, but there has been a stirring in my soul for some time for a "somethingness" that I couldn't quite name.

As a child, food scarcity and homelessness were real fears that often became my reality. Without the help of organizations like Family Promise, my life would look very different today. Contributions to charities like FPB allowed me to break this generational cycle. That legacy, that impact, hasn't just changed my life; it has changed my family's legacy.

I am incredibly humbled and honored to serve others in the same capacity today. I'd like to challenge you to join me in doing the same ...

Please consider supporting us as we enter the holiday season. I am working on our first benefit and would love your support. If your company is interested in corporate sponsorship for the event or ongoing giving, I would love to meet with you and hear more about how we could help!

DONATE HERE: 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

09/06/2022

Ending the night with a bang 💥🎉🎊
And for the record … confetti canons are ALWAYS a good choice ;) Congratulations to Kristina and Joseph! Check out our stories to see more of their Highlands, NC wedding designed by at .
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