Paced for children
Outdoor family sessions at Hillingdon Court Park, planned around how long the smallest child will last.

Family photography in Hillingdon, from newborns at home to three generations on the lawns of Hillingdon Court Park.
★★★★★ Rated 4.8 from 580+ reviews
Studio in Northwood HA6 · free consultation
For Hillingdon
We agree a short list of must-have groupings beforehand, because that is the part people regret missing and it takes two minutes to write down.
On the day the big group picture comes early, while everyone is still tidy and willing. After that it loosens: walking, carrying, children doing whatever they were going to do anyway. You get an edited set, plus mono conversions of whichever frames carry them, and prints or an album can follow later, once everyone has had a chance to look.
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I would highly recommend Northwood Hills Studio. We have been been capturing our favourite family portraits since 2004. Always great fun, yet very professional. The printed results are great and we will keep coming back.
We had the loveliest experience having our family photos taken at this photography studio in Northwood Hills. The photographer was absolutely wonderful, so warm, patient and amazing with the kids! He really knew how to keep them entertained and capture their personalities so naturally. 🥰📸 The photos came out absolutely beautiful, and these are memories we will cherish for a lifetime.
Very pleased with the quality of photographs. Kaushik is very patient and accommodating with requests, and full of enthusiasm and energy. His friendly demeanour immediately put us at ease, resulting in some wonderful family pictures. Would recommend him to family and friends.
What we offer
Outdoor family sessions at Hillingdon Court Park, planned around how long the smallest child will last.
Three generations in one frame, with somewhere level to stand for anyone who needs it.
Rain sends us indoors to Northwood instead of pushing the date three weeks down the calendar.
Local and experienced
Tears, wriggles and sudden naps are part of any session with small children, and we simply work around them. We never ask children to stare down the lens and say cheese. Instead we give them a job, such as racing to a tree or finding a leaf, and photograph them while they do it.
Outdoor family sessions are booked with a fallback date in mind, since photographing small children in the rain helps absolutely nobody involved. Book one session on its own, or a first-year package that runs from newborn to cake smash.

Recent work
With children in tow, a Hillingdon park with flat paths and a playground nearby will serve a family session better than a famous view. Each park below is summarised from a linked source, so you can check playgrounds and paths before you pick one.
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Good to know
Yes. Most maternity sittings in Hillingdon happen at the Northwood studio, because late in a pregnancy warm level ground beats picking a way across park grass, and indoor light does not depend on the forecast. If you want outdoor frames as well, Hillingdon Court Park works in the evening. Around thirty to thirty-four weeks is the usual point to book, while standing for a while is still comfortable.
Mostly, yes. We make the arranged group picture first, since that is the picture people actually frame, and then stop directing. The rest of a Hillingdon session is walking, carrying and children doing what they were going to do anyway, photographed from far enough back that nobody is performing. Open ground at Hillingdon Court Park helps, since there is room to let children move and still hold them in frame.
Yes, it can be booked as a single package. The package starts with a newborn session at your home in Hillingdon or at the studio, returns for sitting up and first steps, and ends with a first-birthday cake smash at the studio. Seen side by side, the four sessions show just how quickly that first year goes.
Because we can tell you the plan before you book. We would take a Hillingdon family to Hillingdon Court Park for the last part of the afternoon, work on open grass with the treeline behind you rather than under it, and keep the group near where you have parked instead of marching everyone to a view. If the weather turns, the session moves to the Northwood studio in this same borough.
Yes, and the order matters. The baby is photographed first while it is sleeping, then the older ones come in, because a toddler asked to wait is finished before its turn arrives. Newborn sessions in Hillingdon usually run at your house, which saves carrying a days-old baby anywhere; the Northwood studio is the alternative if the house is dark. We work to the feeding, not the clock.
Serving Hillingdon
Hillingdon is a suburban area in the west of Greater London, recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Hillendone'. It sits close to Uxbridge and Hayes, which we cover too. Hillingdon is about 5 miles from Northwood, so there is no travel charge for a session at your home or in a local park.
Covering Uxbridge, Hayes, Ruislip, West Drayton and Northwood, the London Borough of Hillingdon is the second largest of London's 32 boroughs by area. Dowding Park on St Andrew's Road in Uxbridge offers 40 acres of country and recreational parkland on the former RAF Uxbridge site, and Stockley Country Park has 11 lakes and paths beside a golf course and canal, both open settings for children who need room to run. If your family would rather be outdoors, Hillingdon Court Park is a likely choice, with the formal gardens for the group picture and the playground for the end.
More in Hillingdon
The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Hillingdon. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across Greater London, including Greenford, South Harrow, Harrow Weald, Ruislip, Stanmore and Hatch End.
The useful thing about Hillingdon for a family booking is that both options sit inside one borough. Hillingdon Court Park and the Northwood studio are within the same boundaries, so a wet Saturday does not force a choice between going ahead in poor conditions and losing the date entirely. The location can change on the morning without anybody rearranging their travel. That matters more than it sounds, because the one weekend when three generations are all free tends to be fixed months ahead and is close to impossible to move. Parkland decides what is physically possible for the oldest and the youngest in a group. Open grass is heavy going for a pram on small wheels and for anyone unsteady on their feet, and it stays soft long after the sky has cleared. So we work outward from wherever the group can stand comfortably instead of walking everybody to a spot we happen to like, which is how a grandparent who cannot cover much ground ends up in the middle of the picture rather than waiting on a bench for it to be over. Attention is the other limit, and it runs out well before the light does. We photograph in short spells rather than one long push, and the gaps between them are not wasted. Children stop performing the moment they believe the photographing has finished, and that is usually when the frames a family ends up choosing get made. When the youngest has nothing left, the studio is the better call: four warm walls, no wind, and one thing to look at.
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Guides
Before a Hillingdon family session, our journal covers clothing, timing with small children and choosing prints.
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At the studio
For a studio sitting, the address is The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU, about 5 miles from Hillingdon and within the same borough. Family sittings there are booked ahead, and you can also drop off old prints and negatives for restoration, scanning or framing. Passport and ID pictures are also taken at the studio. Parents can ring to plan a family session Mon to Sat 10:30 to 18:00 and Sun 13:00 to 18:00.
Your family session is photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, holder of five European Kodak Gold Awards, who opened the Northwood studio in 2001.
Not in Hillingdon? See family photography across North West London, where Kaushik comes to you. For every other service, see photography across North West London.
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Planning a particular occasion in Hillingdon? There are dedicated pages for a maternity photoshoot near Hillingdon, a cake smash for a first birthday, christening and naming day photography, birthday photoshoots for any age and Christmas family photoshoots.
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