Outdoor family sessions
Sessions for families out on the Danson Park lawns, or at your home if that is simpler.
Family Photographer in Bexley
Family photography in Bexley, from maternity and newborn sessions to cake smashes and big multi-generation groups outdoors.
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Family sittings at our Northwood HA6 studio or out in Bexley's parks · free consultation
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Relaxed family photography in Bexley
Bring the dog if it counts as family, plus a clean top for whichever child is likeliest to wear their lunch, and little else besides. Food stays hidden until the whole-group frames are finished, because an unzipping bag ends the concentration of every child present at once.
The full edited take comes back to you rather than a shortlist somebody else has picked, colour throughout and monochrome where it belongs. Where a small child gives up early we stop there and pick the session up on a second date, at no further cost.
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What we offer
Family photography in Bexley
Built around the youngest
Tell us the ages at booking, and the hour gets built around whoever is youngest on the day.
Your edited gallery
A private online gallery to download and share, with prints and frames available from it.
Local and experienced
Patient family sessions around Bexley
We spend much of a family session kneeling, because pictures taken at a toddler's eye level look far more natural. Group frames are kept quick and playful so the youngest stay with us.
Book one session, or a run of them through your baby's first year from newborn to cake smash. We can photograph groups from three people up to about twenty-five, and larger gatherings are best planned together in advance.
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Bexley gardens and parks for a family hour
With small children in tow, a short walk from the car and a lawn to run on count for more than a stately backdrop. From the free gardens at Hall Place to Foots Cray Meadows, each place below is summarised from the source linked with it. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Red House Red House on Red House Lane, Bexleyheath (DA6 8JF), is the National Trust's Arts and Crafts former home of William and Jane Morris, visited by pre-booked guided tour, with a garden containing an apple orchard and a rose arch. Source: Red House | London | National Trust
- Lesnes Abbey recreation area The recreation area at Lesnes Abbey Woods has a large play area, a junior BMX track, parkour, basketball courts and an outdoor gym. Source: Facilities and accessibility - Lesnes Abbey Woods
- Danson Park photo locations The council names the English Garden opposite Danson House and the lakeside as Danson Park's wedding photography spots, and couples marrying at Danson House or holding a reception at the Boathouse must apply for a licence to be photographed in the park. Source: Danson House and Register Office | London Borough of Bexley
- Danson Park for dog walkers Danson Park, a Grade II registered park of about 75 hectares, won the 'Golden paw' award for best paths for dog walking in Bexley Council's 'Bexley's Got Parks' residents' vote, as well as the family fun category. Source: Danson Park crowned Bexley's best park - London Borough of Bexley
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Family Photographer in Bexley, FAQs
Yes, right across the borough, including Bexleyheath, Welling, Sidcup and Erith. We begin from where you have parked rather than out at the centre of a field, so buggies, bags and a tired child cross the grass once only, and all the equipment is carried by us. Tell us at booking if soft ground is difficult for anybody coming, and the spot gets chosen around that.
They really do not need to. We turn the session into a game and photograph whatever happens, rather than asking for a smile on cue. The best frames tend to come once children forget about the camera.
The first couple of weeks are ideal, while newborns sleep deeply and curl up easily. Get in touch before the birth and we can pencil in a date near your due date, then adjust once the baby arrives.
All of them. Newborns, toddlers, teenagers, parents and grandparents are all welcome, and four generations in one Bexley session is entirely possible. Every age gets its own frames as well as a place in the full group.
Both. Outdoors in Bexley, the lawns at Danson Park would suit a group too large for a room and children who need somewhere to run. The Northwood room suits a very small baby, or an afternoon when the rain has properly set in, and it puts a plain background behind you instead of a park. If you are undecided, plan for the park and keep the studio as a fallback.
Serving Bexley
A family photographer near Bexley
Bexley, which came into Greater London from Kent in 1965, is one of the boroughs we travel to for family sessions. It sits close to Greenwich and Bromley, which we cover too. Family sessions can happen outdoors in Bexley, at your home, or at the Northwood studio.
For a longer family walk, the gardens at Hall Place sit in a 65-hectare estate that is free to visit all year, though the byelaws there bar dogs. Danson House is a twenty-minute walk from Bexleyheath or Welling stations, which helps grandparents coming by train.
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The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Bexley. Explore the rest: We also cover family photography across London, including Lewisham, Ealing, Barnet, Sutton, Hackney and Croydon.
The lawns at Danson Park are why families book it, and those same lawns are the thing to plan for, because open ground of that size swallows people. Photographed from any distance a family turns into six small figures on a wide green field, which is a picture of a park containing a family rather than a picture of the family. So most of the hour is worked in close, tight enough that the group fills the frame and the park is only a soft wash of green behind, and one wide frame is kept at the end as the record of where you were. Wide ground does a second thing, which is to leave a shy child with no cover. In a wood or a garden there is something to stand behind. On a lawn there is not, and a five year old who has decided against being photographed will simply say so. That is fine and it gets planned for: the opening stretch is not really photography, it is a walk towards the water while the camera stays boring. Danson House gives the one squared-up frame of the day, everybody lined up and facing front against a symmetrical stone frontage. It takes four minutes and it belongs early, not at the finish, because patience is a budget and by the last quarter of an hour it has been spent. If rain has set the day against you, the Northwood room covers the same ground under a roof.
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Sessions across Bexley
With the studio about 27 miles away in Northwood, most Bexley family sessions happen at home or in a local park. Bexley Council lists Foots Cray Meadows, with its Five Arch Bridge over the River Cray, and the ruins of Lesnes Abbey among its most popular parks for wedding photography, and both would give a family session a change of scene. The Northwood studio suits newborns and rainy days.
Every Bexley family session is photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who holds five European Kodak Gold Awards and opened the Northwood studio in 2001.
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