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Project 365, week 1… Things I’ve learned in 2020 include how much I need to do two things in this life to keep my peace. These are create and be outside. I also learned, after years of guilt, second guessing, looking for validation and fear of failure that enjoying creating things is the only reason […]
Happy New Year… I don’t have a lot to say about the New Year. I’m creeping in quietly trying not the think too much about the enormity of it all. One gentle day at a time. Avoid 99% of the news. Read. Run. Don’t ask too many questions relating to any cosmic fairness or anything […]
Christmas with Covid 2020… Carefully and quietly we go in to Christmas 2020. Not “un-jolly” but none of the manic headiness of usual years. Breathing deeply and reminding ourselves of our blessings of health and each other. A little shell shocked that the events of March are still unfolding and we’re still in this. Trying […]
Layer Mill, Essex Layer Mill was a little local treasure found in those many many days of the first lockdown. Back when the sun shone for so long surprised us and all but all we had to do with it was walk and walk. You turn off the “main road” (in very rural terms) of […]
Essex Documentary Photographer The night after the morning she was born I went to bed. I gathered everything I knew I needed (third time Mums are like that, maybe some first time Mums are like that but personally it took two rounds to know what that long list of nighttime essentials was) pads of every […]
Walberswick Family Photographer A few years ago I received an email from a fellow family photographer and her name was Kika. She was after her own family portraits and I instantly panicked. The idea of another photographer, and a really bloody good one at that, being my client filled me with imposter syndrome and I […]
Colchester Essex Newborn Photography by Charlie Alexander from Farlie Photography What a pleasure this was to visit Vicki and her beautiful and newly expanded family. It’s always such a special time for any family when they welcome a new baby home but an extra special pleasure for me when one such Mummy is a friend […]
Colchester Autumn Family Photoshoot Abbey Fields, Colchester for this day of Autumn photoshoots… What a day! Round after round of familiar faces, funnily enough they were all either past clients or clients who are booked in for weddings that are coming up and home nice to see them all again! Some of these kids I […]
Potters Hill, over Woolacombe Bay, North Devon at sunset. This actually happened on our summer trip to Devon with all of this other chaos on this post. But it was such a quiet and peaceful little moment away from all the noise and energy of the rest the trip it felt like it had set […]
Oh it’s so so hard not to spew a thousand cliches about Autumnal cosiness and romance up those snuggly mustard knits hunched over steaming mugs. But those fire colours and muddy boots are my favourite. I hate to see summer leave us but Autumn really does know how to sugar that pill doesn’t it? Not […]
Family Photography Frinton, Essex There isn’t a thing I didn’t completely love about this session. These wild hearted girls thrilled to be out and enjoying the last of the just-about-warm-enough-without-a-coat weather of 2020. That rogue Frinton sea front roaring, chasing the tide to the steps. Playing games. Finding beach relics in the sand. Selecting what […]
West Mersea Essex Wedding Photographer When West Mersea delivers such a stonking good sunset for your engagement shoot, you wish you’d brought the three of you some beers and blanket. Seeing as I didn’t have those with me we took some pictures instead! What an evening! “The first stab of love is like a sunset, […]