Paced for children
Family sessions in Greenwich Park or at home, paced by whatever stretch the youngest has in them, not by light.
Family Photographer in Greenwich
Maternity, newborn and family photography across Greenwich, from the slopes of Greenwich Park to your own front room.
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Family sessions in Greenwich Park or at our Northwood HA6 studio · free consultation
For Greenwich
Capturing your family in Greenwich
A session is really a walk, with photographs taken along it. No one gets asked to smile to order, and we carry little enough that there is nothing underfoot and no waiting about. After twenty minutes or so, the camera is easy to forget.
Afterwards the whole edited set comes to you, print size and screen size both, rather than a shortlist to buy back one frame at a time. The one holding everybody goes over first, since that is what the waiting was for.
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What we offer
Family photography in Greenwich
Extended family groups
The whole family frame taken first, seated groups before standing ones, and the running about kept for last.
Home if the rain sets in
Poor weather moves it into your own sitting room instead of a trip right across London.
Local and experienced
What a Greenwich Park family session would involve
For the first ten minutes we leave shy children entirely alone. Nothing makes a child curious faster than an adult with a camera who is ignoring them. A baby who is truly upset goes straight back to a parent. Pressing on gains nothing; the pictures made once a baby has settled are always the better ones.
A newborn session at home runs at the baby's pace, with time for feeds, cuddles and settling between pictures. Favourite frames can become framed prints, canvases or a fine-art album once you have chosen them.
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Greenwich Park and its gardens for a family session
With young children, a Greenwich session would keep to the lawns of the Flower Garden and save the climb to the top of the park's highest hill for a final skyline view, if energy lasts. The places below include Greenwich Park, its Flower Garden and the Royal Parks permit rules, each summarised from The Royal Parks or another linked source. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Maryon Wilson Park Maryon Wilson Park on Thorntree Road, Charlton, is a valley of grassland and woodland with an animal park of ducks, geese, chickens, goats, pigs and a deer enclosure, and was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 2005. Source: Maryon Wilson Park - Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Greenwich Park Flower Garden and Rose Garden Greenwich Park's Flower Garden is an Edwardian showpiece with lawns and island beds framed by cedar and tulip trees, and the park also has a Rose Garden and a record-breaking herbaceous border. Source: Gardens | Greenwich Park | The Royal Parks
- Greenwich foot tunnel The Grade II listed Greenwich foot tunnel, designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and opened on 4 August 1902, runs 370 metres under the Thames from beside the Cutty Sark to Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs. Source: Greenwich foot tunnel - Wikipedia
- St Alfege Park St Alfege Park on Greenwich Church Street, next to St Alfege Church, has formal gardens, a hard ball area and a children's playground for all ages. Source: St Alfege Park - Royal Borough of Greenwich
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Family Photographer in Greenwich, FAQs
Yes, at your home and not at a studio, because a baby that new should not be travelling across London for pictures. We fit round feeds and sleeping and stay as long as that takes. The pictures get decided by your largest window: we work beside it, curtains wide, every bulb in the house switched off, so choose the room in your Greenwich house with the most glass.
Every single one. From tiny newborns to grandparents in their eighties, we photograph the whole of your Greenwich family, right up to four generations gathered together. Family sessions that span every age are exactly what we love, so no one gets left out.
Yes, and the order changes a little when they do. Seated groups happen first, on a bench or a rug, while everyone is still content to be arranged, and standing frames come after. The Greenwich slopes can involve more walking than people expect, so if that is awkward, say as much beforehand and we can pick somewhere needing almost none, or work at the house.
The first couple of weeks after birth are usually best, while babies sleep deeply and curl up easily. Getting in touch before the birth lets us pencil in a date near your due date and move it once the baby arrives.
Let us know as soon as you can. Illness and off days come with small children, and rearranging is always better than photographing a child who is unwell or out of sorts. We will then pick a fresh date together, and the plan for the park simply moves with it.
Serving Greenwich
A family photographer near Greenwich
Greenwich is about 19 miles from Northwood across Greater London, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book. It sits close to Lewisham and Bexley, which we cover too. A Greenwich family session can be at home, in Greenwich Park, or at the Northwood studio if you would rather come to us.
Greenwich Park was enclosed in 1433 and given its avenues of trees to André Le Nôtre's plan in the 1660s, so a family walk there has shade and long straight lines to follow. Greenwich station is served by Southeastern and the DLR, which helps if grandparents are travelling in by train. Greenwich Park's Flower Garden, with lawns and island beds framed by cedar and tulip trees, and its Rose Garden both suit a family walk, and family portrait photography in the park needs a Royal Parks wedding and lifestyle photography permit, issued for up to ten people for one hour.
More in Greenwich
More photography services in Greenwich
The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Greenwich. Explore the rest: We also cover family photography across London, including Wandsworth, Redbridge, Barnet, Brent, Waltham Forest and Camden.
The hill under Greenwich Park solves something that level ground makes you fight. A family lined up shoulder to shoulder on the flat is a row of mismatched heights, and the usual remedies are crouching, boxes, or a back row that ends up soft. On a gradient you put the tallest at the downhill end and let the slope do it, so an adult and a nine year old finish within a head of one another, nobody having been told to bend their knees. The gradient charges for that elsewhere. Whoever is pushing a pram, or unenthusiastic about a climb, ought to be walking downwards rather than up, which argues for starting high and finishing at the bottom of the park. It also means the frame holding everybody gets taken while legs are fresh, instead of at the end when they are not. Wind is the remaining variable. High open ground above a river catches it from any direction, and it reaches the smallest person first. Shelter is in the planting: one pace in off the exposed slope and the trees take the worst away, so a dull position out of the blast beats a handsome one standing in it, every time. Should the weather have gone entirely, what makes sense is not a trek across London to Northwood but your own sitting room, where the biggest window becomes the light and nobody has to get four people, two coats and a pram through a door in the rain.
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How it works
Family sessions at your Greenwich home or in the park
From Northwood, Greenwich is about 19 miles away, so most family sessions there would happen at home or in the park rather than at the studio. For a family, that usually means your own living room or the park, with a light brought along for grey days. The studio stays available if a controlled room suits you better.
Kaushik Bathia, who founded the Northwood studio in 2001, photographs every family session himself; he is FBIPP and FMPA and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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