Alexandra Friendly Photography

Name: Alexandra Friendly Photography
Address: Washington D.C., DC, US
Telephone: (202) 285-3944
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09/29/2023

There’s this song I find stuck in my head a lot during sessions like these. “When it all comes true just the way you planned, it’s funny but the bells don’t ring. It’s a quiet thing.”
That deep down contentment that comes with knowing something is so RIGHT isn’t about jumping for joy and laughing with excitement. It’s the smile that spreads across your soul like molasses, a warmth that fills the room from your heart outward. It’s a quiet thing.

09/28/2023

From this week’s Letter from Alex:
“I wonder if I'm the only one that struggles with wanting to be more than only a mother. Am I alone in wanting to be defined by more than just my relationship to the people that mean the most to me? I don't think so. I yearn for personhood as well as parenthood. And it seems to me that having an identity outside of ‘mom’ can only make me a better one.”
Want to read more? Ask to get your handwritten letter through the link in my bio.

02/08/2022

I DID A THING! Last month, an incredible blog, , invited me to write an article on how to stand out as a family photographer. I'm SO FREAKIN' PROUD of how it turned out.

If you have a minute and are curious, I'd love to hear what you think!

10/15/2021

I recently learned the term for something I’ve felt deeply since becoming a parent: anticipatory nostalgia.⁠
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It means feeling nostalgic for the moment you’re currently in. It’s a bittersweet feeling, one full of the joy of getting to experience this moment, of appreciation for it, twinged with sadness that it will be gone all to soon.⁠
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It might seem at first glance like a bad thing. Who wants to feel sad in the middle of a happy moment?⁠
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But anticipatory nostalgia is actually kind of magical. Because it helps you appreciate the moment fully as it’s happening, to be 100% present, and because emotion is what tags a memory as important enough for long term storage, it makes the memory stronger and last longer.⁠
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Have you felt this before? What did it feel like for you?⁠
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10/12/2021

As I meandered among the wedding guests, capturing honest moments of connection, his style and easy confidence jumped out at me.
“Can I take your picture?” I asked.
I grabbed his hand and pulled him out to the best light, then lifted my camera loaded with old school ortho film and snapped two portraits. I couldn’t wait to get these scans back.
Delivering my clients photos, I was so excited to hear what they thought. And to my delight, they were thrilled. But they also let me know that this kind, generous, easy going young man was no longer with us. He had died in a car crash a week before the images were delivered.
My eyes welled up. A tear spilled over.
I thought about that moment again. When I saw him. How something inside me urged me to capture this sweet soul on that day. I’m so very glad that I did.
Photography is powerful. It’s a time machine. It connects us to the last in a way that few other mediums can. The future is never certain. Someone who is so alive and vibrant, someone with so much life ahead of them, can be gone in the blink of an eye. But even when they’re gone, it’s their photographs that keep their memory strong, that keep them with us. That remind us of our shared experiences. That keep them alive in our hearts.
And this is why the work I do is so meaningful to me. Why it’s so much more than just a photo for the holiday card. It’s creating a portal for our future selves to relive our own history.
Today I’ll be taking photos of my loved ones. Holding them tight. And taking in every moment, because who know how many more I’ll get.

10/04/2021

Today I’m 41. And I LOVE it. I’ve always loved growing older, appreciated each age I am. After all, I only get to be 41 once in my life. I want to relish all that comes with it.
The confidence and self assurance that was so inconsistent in my younger years. Finally feeling like a grown up. Becoming at peace with my idiosyncrasies, the traits I would have called flaws in a previous decade.
Learning to take care of myself, emotionally and physically, like I never did before. And honoring all that by photographing myself with the same love and compassion I do for all my clients.
This year, I’ll be taking a roll of self portraits every month. At the end, I hope to have 41 images that represent this year for me. Stay tuned!
Shot with on , scans by

10/01/2021

I’ve had a lot of shame about my own messiness. But whenever I walk into a client’s beautifully lived-in home, whether everything is in its place, or there are piles on every surface and toys all over the floor, I know exactly what to do.
I hope you’ll let me show you how beautiful your life is, even if it feels impossibly messy and chaotic from the inside. Because when the mess isn’t our own, that’s when the magic biomes visible. That’s when the true beauty shines through, the beauty you can only truly find within chaos.
Read more about my journey on the blog! (Link in profile)

09/29/2021

What’s the key to feeling totally at ease being photographed? It all comes down to focusing on the emotions you want to see in your images.
If all you’ve ever wanted is to be a father and now you’re holding your child, your sense of fulfillment, of peace, of joy makes everything else pale in comparison.
Dive deep into the wonder that comes with how much you adore each other (even when they’re driving you crazy!).
Soak in the sweetness of those giggles, laugh at those crazy dance moves and bad jokes.
Let the sense of utter rightness ooze out of your pores as you hold your loved one close, all tangled up in each other.
The purpose of art is to make us feel something. The beauty of commissioning art, is you get to be part of the process of creating your art, so whatever you want to feel when you see it on your walls or in your photo albums, just let yourself feel it in the moment, and the rest will come.
Wanna experience it first hand? I still have a few fall sessions available! DM to hear all the deets…
Contax 645, Kodak Portra 400 (maybe 800?) pushed +1, scans by

09/28/2021

Those mundane, magical moments that take your breath away. This is what living an authentic life is all about.

09/25/2021

Over the past years I’ve come to a realization - beauty, true beauty, lies in the chaos. It’s in laughing so hard you can’t breathe. In being so touched, tears stream down your cheeks. In having your breath taken away in by the unexpected.
Perfection isn’t beauty. It masquerades as beauty, but perfection comes bottled with a big oil’ side dish of anxiety, shame, and self-doubt. Perfection is never attainable, and constantly expecting your life to look perfect will suck the joy, the character, the quirk, the uniqueness right out of it.
I’m not saying it’s easy. Far from it. But the more I look for the moments of beauty that exist BECAUSE of the chaos, I know for sure that I’m on to something.
So here’s my wish for you I hope you have a life full of messy, glorious, beautiful chaos.
And call me if you want it captured on film. 😉 💋

06/27/2021

Nothing quite compares to documenting a family year after year. Today I had the honor of capturing newborn photos of the newest member of this family. The little girl here, now approaching three, so thrilled to be a big sister, trying out saying my name over and over.
Thank you for trusting me to be a part of these amazing moments!!

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(202) 285-3944

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http://www.alexandrafriendlyphotography.com/

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