Plan around gown hire
Hired gowns usually go back on the ceremony day, so book portraits on the day or arrange a separate date while the gown is still with you.
Graduation Photographer in Buckinghamshire
Cap and gown portraits for Buckinghamshire graduates and school leavers: on the day, later in the summer at a county landmark, or at the Northwood studio with the family.
The short answer
Where can I get graduation photos taken in Buckinghamshire?
Kaushik photographs graduates at the Northwood studio, about 6 miles from Gerrards Cross and 10 from Amersham, or on location at a Buckinghamshire landmark such as Old Amersham's Market Hall or Buckingham's Old Gaol. Bring your cap, gown and hood, and family are welcome to join. Gown hire is usually returned on the ceremony day, so plan around it. Prices are on request, and travel from Northwood is set out in writing before you book.
Our usual session area is within about 20 miles of the studio. Further out in Buckinghamshire, sessions are by arrangement, with travel quoted in writing before you book.
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Universities in and near the county
Buckingham, Brunel and the film school at Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire is home to the University of Buckingham, Britain's first private university, in the old county town about 37 miles from Northwood. On the county's south-eastern edge, Brunel University London received its royal charter in June 1966 and has its campus of brutalist buildings by Sheppard, Robson and Partners on Kingston Lane in Uxbridge, about 2 miles from Denham. Beaconsfield Studios is the base of the National Film and Television School, founded in 1971.
If you studied somewhere else entirely and came home to Bucks with a degree and a gown order, the portrait does not have to happen in the university town. It can be taken on the day near the ceremony, or later in Bucks, close to the family who will hang it on the wall.
Choosing a date
Gown hire, ceremony day and a quieter second date
Hired gowns are usually handed back on the day of the ceremony, so plan the session around that. If you want portraits in the gown, either the shoot happens on the day, before or after the ceremony, or you arrange a separate date while you still have it. Some graduates buy their gown, which frees the date up completely.
A second date can be calmer than the ceremony itself, especially when family are travelling to Buckinghamshire from further away. There is no crowd, no queue for the best spot and time to get the hood sitting properly. Location sessions are booked like any come-to-you session, and travel from Northwood is quoted up front and set out in writing before you book. The national graduation photos page covers the studio option.
Landmarks
A Market Hall of 1682, a Lutyens memorial and Stowe's temples
Buckinghamshire has some formal backdrops that suit a gown. Amersham Market Hall on the High Street in Old Amersham, built in red brick with stone dressings for Sir William Drake of Shardeloes, was completed in 1682. The Gerrards Cross Memorial Building on East Common was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, unveiled in 1922, and is described as the only Lutyens war memorial with a functional purpose.
For University of Buckingham graduates, the town has its own landmarks: the Old Gaol on Market Hill, built in 1748 and a museum since 1993, and the 15th-century Chantry Chapel with its Norman doorway. Close to Buckingham, Stowe's Grade I listed landscape gardens cover more than 400 acres with the Corinthian Arch, Palladian Bridge and Gothic Temple. National Trust and private sites set their own rules for photography, so check before you choose one. See portrait photography in Buckinghamshire for more county settings.
School leavers
Sixth-form leavers from the Chalfonts to the Chess Valley
The end of school deserves a portrait too. Sixth-form leavers heading to university, an apprenticeship or a first job can have a session that marks the step, in the clothes they feel most like themselves in or the outfit for the leavers' event. It works on its own or with parents and grandparents, and it makes a good record to set beside the graduation picture three or four years later.
For an outdoor leavers' portrait, the Memorial Gardens in Old Amersham, which commemorate soldiers lost in both world wars, are a quiet setting, and Meades Water Gardens in Chesham sit on the former millstream of Amy Mill. Bourton Park in Buckingham runs beside the River Great Ouse. The town portrait pages for Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross suggest more.
The session
Solo frames, family groups and the run to Northwood
A graduation session starts with the graduate alone in the classic formal portrait, then moves to relaxed frames and the family groups. Posing is coached throughout, and the gown and hood are arranged before every frame. For a Buckingham graduate on location, the formal frame can be taken by the Old Gaol on Market Hill before the family groups move to Bourton Park beside the Great Ouse.
At the studio the light is controlled and there is no weather or crowd to fight. It is two minutes from Northwood Hills station on the Metropolitan line, the same line that reaches Amersham and Chesham, and about 4 miles by road from Denham. You can read how portrait sessions work at the studio before you decide.
Planning
Planning around Buckinghamshire
Buckingham graduates
Buckingham is about 37 miles from Northwood. The Old Gaol, the Chantry Chapel and Bourton Park are all close to the town centre.
Brunel, near Denham
Brunel's Uxbridge campus is about 2 miles from Denham, so a Brunel graduate living in south Bucks has the studio and the campus both within a short drive.
Check site rules
National Trust and private landmarks such as Stowe set their own photography rules; check them before choosing a location for your graduation portrait.
Bring the family
Parents, grandparents and siblings can join for groups after the solo portraits, in the studio or on location in Bucks.
Graduation backdrops in Buckinghamshire
These Buckinghamshire landmarks and open spaces, each with its source, suit a graduation or school leaver portrait outdoors.
- Princes Risborough Manor House: The Manor House, built in the mid-17th century and renovated by Lord Rothschild from 1886, was given to the National Trust by the Rothschild family in 1926; it is usually let to a tenant and some rooms can be seen by prior appointment. 1
- Stowe House: Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house that has been home to Stowe School since 1923 and is owned by the Stowe House Preservation Trust. 2
- The Old Rectory, Windsor End: The Old Rectory beside the churchyard at Windsor End is a Grade II* listed timber-framed house built as the parsonage in 1534, arranged around three sides of a courtyard and restored in 1901. 3
- Rue de Houilles avenue: The Rue de Houilles, the main avenue through Lowndes Park, was once an elm-lined carriageway first planted around 1760 and is now a bridleway and national cycle route planted with mixed trees including blossom, named after Chesham's French twin town. 4
- The Elgiva: The Elgiva theatre and cinema in Chesham was built in 1998, near the site of the demolished original Elgiva Hall. 5
Sources, facts checked October 2026
Town by town
Graduation portraits across Buckinghamshire
Here are Buckinghamshire's towns with their distance from the Northwood studio, so you can weigh a location portrait against a studio session.
- Denham (4 miles from the studio)
- Gerrards Cross (6 miles from the studio)
- Chalfont St Peter (6 miles from the studio)
- Chalfont St Giles (7 miles from the studio)
- Amersham (10 miles from the studio)
- Beaconsfield (11 miles from the studio)
- Chesham (11 miles from the studio)
- Bourne End (13 miles from the studio)
- High Wycombe (15 miles from the studio)
- Marlow (16 miles from the studio)
- Princes Risborough (20 miles from the studio)
- Aylesbury (23 miles from the studio)
- Milton Keynes (34 miles from the studio)
- Buckingham (37 miles from the studio)
Good to know
Graduation photography in Buckinghamshire: questions answered
Yes, as a come-to-you booking. Buckingham is about 37 miles from Northwood, and the travel is set out in your written quote. Ceremony halls usually set their own rules about photographers, so plan portraits outside, before or after. The Old Gaol on Market Hill and the Chantry Chapel are close by.
Yes. Brunel's campus on Kingston Lane in Uxbridge is about 2 miles from Denham, which is itself about 4 miles from the studio. You can choose a location session nearby or come to the Northwood studio for controlled light and family groups without crowds.
Yes. Bring your cap, gown and hood, and they are arranged properly before each frame. If the gown is hired and due back on the ceremony day, book the studio session for that day or ask the hire company whether you can keep it a little longer.
Old Amersham's Market Hall, the Lutyens Memorial Building on East Common in Gerrards Cross and Stowe's landscape gardens near Buckingham all make formal backdrops. Check the photography rules of any National Trust or private site first. The Buckinghamshire hub lists other county places.
Yes. Sessions cover the graduate alone and with family, in formal and relaxed frames. Grandparents who would find a busy ceremony day tiring can join a quieter second date at the studio or near home in Buckinghamshire instead.
Yes. A leavers' portrait marks the end of school before university, an apprenticeship or work, and can be taken at the studio or outdoors in a Bucks park or town. It is booked and priced like any portrait session, on request by phone or WhatsApp.
A graduation price is given on request by phone or WhatsApp on 07956 505383. For a location session in Buckinghamshire, the travel from Northwood appears in your quote before you book, so you can compare it with coming to the studio.
Your photographer is Kaushik Bathia, a fellow of both the BIPP and the MPA with five European Kodak Gold Awards, working from the studio he opened in Northwood in 2001.
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