Portrait Photographer & Blogger
February Snow in Essex Living under the lockdown feels a lot like one of those weighted blanket, sometimes soothing and secure being pressed in to the mattress like that. So cosy I genuinely worry about whenever I’ll have to crawl out from underneath it. Little slithers of outside world reality breeze through like unwelcome early […]
Digging around in the box of padded ski clothes. Zipping us all in to all colours of fleece lined, man-made fabrics, swooshing as we shuffle out the door. Out of breath with the hassle before we start. Preemptively a little cross that we might not last out there as long as it took to get […]
Project 365 January Round-Up… Fancy checking out some more of my own wee ones? To find out more about my commissioned photography work see my website! Thanks for checking out my blog! My name is Charlie Alexander and I’m a portrait photographer specialising in children, families, weddings and branding portraiture. I work all over Essex, Suffolk and […]
Clacton Newborn Lifestyle Photography The only honour greater than being asked to join a family at a time as special as when a newborn new baby is welcomed home, is being asked back again and again as I have with this wonderful family. What an honour and a privilege to be chosen to share another […]
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 […]