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Extended family groups arranged early, while the youngest members are still willing to stand where they are put.
Family Photographer in Edgware
How a family session near Edgware runs, from maternity sessions to cake smash milestones and multi-generation groups.
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How a family session near Edgware runs
The session moves in blocks: everybody together, then each household, then the children by themselves, then whatever charging about is left over. Chairs or a low wall are part of the plan, since standing still is what tires older relatives fastest. The running order goes out beforehand, so nobody is guessing when they arrive.
An hour is usually plenty. Group frames come back fully retouched, the rest lightly corrected, with print sized files included in the set.
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What we offer
Family photography in Edgware
Grandparents included
A park session can follow a short, level route with somewhere to sit, suited to prams and grandparents.
Newborn and baby sittings
The Northwood studio is available for newborns, for January and for any date the forecast cannot be trusted with.
Why choose us
Why book us in Edgware
Tears, wriggles and sudden naps are part of photographing small children, and the plan bends around them. Twins need more time than two separate babies would, so a twin session is planned with that extra time from the start.
Not everyone needs to face the camera in every frame, and the ones where somebody is mid-laugh usually become the favourites. The edited gallery comes to you first, and from it you can order prints, frames, canvases or a hand-finished album.
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Where an Edgware family could be photographed outdoors
Children photograph best with room to run, so an outdoor family session near Edgware would be built around lawns, level paths and somewhere for grandparents to sit. The Canons Park details below come from the council and reference sources linked to each.
- Stanmore Country Park Stanmore Country Park, entered from Dennis Lane, Kerry Avenue and Wood Lane and four minutes' walk from Stanmore station, is a Harrow Council park made up mainly of woodland and meadow. Source: Commons, greens and open space - Harrow Council
- King George V Memorial Garden The King George V Memorial Garden in Canons Park is a walled garden redesigned in the 1930s, with a central square pool, a raised terrace, formal flower beds and a pavilion. Source: Canons Park - Wikipedia
- St Lawrence Whitchurch, Little Stanmore St Lawrence's Church on Whitchurch Lane, Canons Park, is a Grade I listed church with a tower of about 1360, rebuilt in Baroque style from 1715 for James Brydges, later 1st Duke of Chandos, with painted walls and ceiling and an organ associated with Handel. Source: St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch - Wikipedia
- Edgwarebury Park Edgwarebury Park is a 22-hectare Barnet park, opened in 1932 and entered from Edgware Way and Edgwarebury Lane, with a playground, café, ornamental gardens and a pinetum, and it is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation. Source: Edgwarebury Park - Wikipedia
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Family Photographer in Edgware, FAQs
Probably not, and that is fine. Busy toddlers are welcome, and we would never ask one to sit still on command. We turn it into a game and photograph what happens, which is usually where the best pictures come from.
The whole family frame is arranged, because a dozen people cannot arrange themselves. Everything after it comes from prompts rather than positions: walk to the bench, tell them what you were told not to repeat. Children are given a job instead of an instruction to smile. Outdoors, that would mean a short route with something to do at each end of it.
Both, and it is worth deciding early. Outdoors near Edgware, Canons Park is the obvious choice, with its lakes and walled garden as backdrops. The Northwood room is better with a newborn, with an elderly relative who cannot stand for long, or in January when nobody enjoys it outside. Say which you would prefer when you enquire and we will hold the alternative in case of weather.
It marks a first birthday: your little one gets a cake of their own to prod, squash and taste. We catch the first cautious poke, the full-handed mess and the delighted faces that follow. Expect mess, laughter and plenty of cake on the floor, which is exactly the point.
Within the first two weeks is best, while a newborn is at their sleepiest and settles most easily for posing. Getting in touch during pregnancy helps, as we can pencil in a provisional date around the due date and adjust it once the baby arrives.
Serving Edgware
A family photographer near Edgware
Edgware is a north-west London town at the end of the Northern line, mostly in Barnet with a corner in Harrow. It sits close to Stanmore and Ruislip, which we cover too. Whether you would rather come to the Northwood studio or meet us in Canons Park, one of Harrow's Green Flag parks, Edgware is a short trip from our base.
Edgware's largest single religious group is its Jewish community, and at the 2001 census 9% of residents gave their religion as Hindu and 5% as Muslim. Edgware station, the Zone 5 end of the Northern line's Edgware branch, makes a simple meeting point for anyone coming by Tube. When a session suits an outdoor setting, Canons Park, with the Basin Lake and the walled King George V Memorial Garden, is one option.
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The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Edgware. Explore the rest: We also cover family photography across Greater London, including Pinner, Hatch End, Northwood, Rayners Lane, South Ruislip and Wembley.
The thing that decides an Edgware family session is its order, not its location. Where three or four generations turn up together, the group is at its most cooperative in the opening fifteen minutes and never comes back to that state, so the picture containing everybody is taken first, before coats come off and before anyone has been asked to do the same thing twice. Every smaller combination, the couples, the cousins, the children by themselves, can be built out of a set of people who have already been arranged once. Ground matters more than scenery for the same practical reason. A designed park such as Canons Park has made paths and level going, which is exactly what a pram and an eighty year old both require. Grass looks better in a frame and behaves worse under everyone standing on it, especially after rain. The compromise is to put the group on firm footing and let the park be the background, rather than marching the whole party out into the middle of a lawn for a view that nobody notices once the picture is printed. Small children set the clock. Willingness to stand still runs out somewhere near the twenty minute mark, and the correct response is to stop asking for stillness. Give a four year old a job, hold this, find that, run to the tree and back, and the frames arrive without being requested. In January, or with a baby only a few weeks old, the Northwood room beats every outdoor option available: warm, level, windless, and entirely indifferent to what the sky is doing.
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Visiting the studio from Edgware
From Edgware, the studio at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU is about 6 miles away, and we do not charge for travel when we come to you instead. Family and newborn sittings there are by appointment, and the same studio handles printing, framing, restoration and digitising. We are open from 10:30 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday and from 13:00 to 18:00 on Sundays, which suits weekend family sittings.
Each family session is photographed by Kaushik Bathia in person, a Fellow of the BIPP and the MPA who opened the Northwood studio in 2001 and has five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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