Outdoor family sessions
Family sessions on flat ground close to where you park, with any hill kept firmly optional.
Family Photographer in Havering
Relaxed family photography across Havering, from Romford to Upminster, for newborns, toddlers, older children and grandparents.
★★★★★ Rated 4.8 from 580+ reviews
Family sessions in Havering parks or at home · free consultation
Havering and nearby
Family sessions in Havering's parks, at an easy pace
- What the session includes: Natural portraits and candid moments of everyone together, from newborns to grandparents, paced for the youngest, then a private online gallery to choose your favourites.
- Where we photograph in Havering: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as Langtons Gardens, Bedfords Park or Raphael Park. We travel from Northwood, about 27 miles away, by arrangement. Newborn sessions can be photographed at your home, or at the Northwood studio if you prefer.
- To book: Use the form at the end of this page, or call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, and we will arrange a date and place in Havering.
Nothing is timed to the minute. We allow for the walk from the car, the change of mind at the gate, and the ten minutes a three year old spends deciding we are not interesting. In practice the photography is forty minutes inside a longer booking.
You get an edited gallery rather than a card of everything. Files come sized for printing and for sending to relatives, and the group frames are supplied with enough room around the edges to crop them square later.
Check availability
We had a great experience with our family photoshoot. The photographer made everyone feel relaxed and comfortable, which really shows in the final photos. The images are natural, well-captured, and beautifully edited. We’re all really happy with the results and would highly recommend.
…The gentleman took my family and I last minute for a photoshoot. Although we were running extremely late as we had a newborn, he waited patiently for us. He initially said he could only do 30 minutes because we were late but he ended up spending the entire hour and some minutes making sure we had the best photos.
We had our family portraits done many years ago with Kaushik Bathia and we loved them so we have now returned again this time with new additions to the family. On all the occasions we went Kaushik Bathia has taken care of everyone and made everyone laugh and smile especially the children in order to get the best photos.
What we offer
Family photography in Havering
Extended family groups
Grandparents, prams and toddlers all want the same three things: level ground, short distances, somewhere to sit.
Paced for children
Small children photograph best in their first good hour of the day; late afternoon is usually a gamble.
Why choose us
How a family session runs
We never ask children to stop and say cheese. Instead we give them a job, such as spotting the red deer at Bedfords Park or racing to the next tree, and photograph them while they do it. Each session is planned around your family, whether that means a busy park walk with cousins or a quiet newborn sitting.
Kaushik meets your children, photographs them, edits the pictures and delivers the finished gallery, so there is one familiar face throughout. Afterwards you can order prints, frames, canvases or an album, and a second set for the grandparents is easy to add after a multi-generation session.
Recent work
Recent family sessions
Places for a family shoot in and around Havering
For a relaxed family shoot, open space and easy access matter more than grand scenery. Here are some places in and around Havering, each summarised from a linked source. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Upminster Windmill is a Grade II* listed smock mill built in 1803 and restored to working order between 2016 and 2023, when a visitor centre was added. 1
- Bedfords Park is a 215-acre Local Nature Reserve between Collier Row and Harold Hill, home to a herd of captive red deer, with an Essex Wildlife Trust visitor centre giving panoramic views over east London. 2
- Langtons Gardens. Langtons House stands in landscaped gardens with an ornamental lake, an orangery and a bath house; the Orangery has been used as an outdoor ceremony space for up to 90 since April 2017. 3
- Lodge Farm Park on Main Road, Romford, is a 12-acre Green Flag park with a large children's play area and a 7¼-inch gauge miniature railway run by the Havering Miniature Railway Club. 4
Sources
Good to know
Family Photographer in Havering, FAQs
Yes. Havering is a straightforward run for us by road, with the M25 and the A12 skirting the borough, and we carry everything needed with us. We cover Hornchurch, Upminster and Romford as well. The one thing worth settling early is the meeting point, because a family session usually starts at a car park rather than at an address, and the two are not always obvious to a driver.
Yes. The one adjustment for Havering is where: the parkland at Havering-atte-Bower sits on a hill, and a long uphill walk is the last thing anyone wants in the final weeks. We either work the level ground close to the car park or do the whole thing at the Northwood room, which is warm, private, and has somewhere to sit down between setups.
It is, but from Havering it is a car journey round the M25 rather than a local trip, and a toddler who has already spent a while in a car seat does not arrive at their best. So we would usually suggest starting outdoors in the borough and keeping the room at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 as the fallback for weather, or for babies too small to be out in the cold.
It happens, and it truly does not worry us. Tears, wriggles and unexpected naps are part of any baby session, so we simply pause, soothe your baby and continue. An unsettled first ten minutes seldom shows in the final gallery.
Yes, and they often do. The practical point in Havering is the ground: Bedfords Park is high up and not level, so if anyone in the group finds slopes or long walks hard, say so when you book and we will work the flat band near the car park instead. Nobody has to be in every frame either; grandparents can sit for their own.
Serving Havering
A family photographer near Havering
Havering is a large borough, so we agree the park and the exact meeting point before the day. It sits close to Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham, which we cover too. Family sessions can take place in a Havering park, at your home, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Havering has plenty of open space for families, including Hornchurch Country Park on the former Hornchurch Airfield, crossed by the River Ingrebourne. If relatives are coming by train, Romford station is on the Elizabeth line and is the northern end of the London Overground Liberty line, and Raphael Park is in Romford too. For on-location sessions, Bedfords Park at Havering-atte-Bower is one option, close to the well-known Bower House of 1729 in the same hilltop village.
More in Havering
More photography services in Havering
The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Havering. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including Southwark, Haringey, Barnet, Kensington and Chelsea, Redbridge and Greenwich.
Bedfords Park is the obvious place to take a family in Havering, and the thing to plan around is that it sits at the top of the village rather than on the flat. Gradient costs small children far more than distance does. A hundred metres of uphill uses up the good mood a five year old arrived with, and it is that mood, not the light, which decides how many usable frames a session yields. So we work a band of ground within sight of the car park, out and back rather than up and over, and leave anything steep for the adults if it happens at all. The red deer herd helps here in a way that is nothing to do with photography. Children will walk towards deer without being asked, which produces natural movement, faces looking at something real, and a route that has a purpose to it, rather than the flat business of asking a child to walk from one tree to another for no reason they can see. Prams and older relatives pull in the same direction as the children do: level ground, park close, no loop. And there is a point in the year, roughly from the first properly cold week onward, where the wind on that hill is simply unkind to a baby or to anyone who has to stand still in it, and the Northwood room becomes the better answer. Warm, no walking, nothing to watch the sky for.
Guides
Family guides for Havering
Two short guides to read before a family session in Havering, covering clothes and keeping children happy.
Choosing family outfits for a Havering outdoor session
Read the guide
Fun Family Sessions With Kids
Read the guide
Wedding Photography in Havering
documentary, warm & unhurried
Asian Wedding Photography in Havering
Hindu, Sikh, Gujarati, Muslim & Tamil
Hindu Wedding Photography in Havering
mandap, pheras & saptapadi
Sikh Wedding Photography in Havering
Anand Karaj, mehndi & baraat
Muslim Wedding Photography in Havering
the nikah, mehndi & walima
How it works
How we work in Havering
We travel to Havering from Northwood (about 27 miles) rather than asking you to travel to us. For a family session we would bring everything to a park in the borough, such as Raphael Park in Romford, which opened in 1904 as Havering's first public park and still has Black's Lake and a bandstand.
Kaushik Bathia, a fellow of the BIPP and the MPA with five European Kodak Gold Awards, photographs every family session himself and has worked from Northwood since 2001.
Popular sessions
Looking for something specific? See maternity photoshoots, cake smash sessions, christening photography near Havering, birthday photoshoots and Christmas and seasonal mini sessions.
Based in London
Book your Havering shoot
Tell us what you'd like to capture in Havering and we'll send availability, ideas and pricing.