Outdoor family sessions
Family sessions on the short winter grass at Richmond Park, with Northwood held back for wet mornings.
Family Photographer in Richmond upon Thames
Family photography in Richmond upon Thames, a calm, playful session that suits toddlers and grandparents alike.
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Family photographs in Richmond upon Thames parks, at home or in Northwood HA6 · free consultation
Richmond upon Thames and nearby
A family photographer for Richmond upon Thames
- What the session includes: A relaxed session of usually about an hour, led by the children's mood, with a private online gallery afterwards and the option of prints, framed wall art or a hand-finished album.
- Where we photograph in Richmond upon Thames: Your home or garden, or a park or open space such as Richmond Park, Pembroke Lodge or Terrace Gardens. We travel from Northwood, about 12 miles away. 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 Richmond upon Thames.
The assembled group gets photographed early, while the smallest person is still interested, and everything else follows after: couples, siblings, one child alone, a grandparent with a grandchild. Nobody is asked to stand still for long, and we agree the order of it at the gate rather than inventing it halfway through.
A wet forecast moves the booking to Northwood instead of cancelling it. Everyone named on the booking receives the same finished gallery, so relatives who could not travel see it when you do.
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I was nervous about how my 2 year old would react, but we had a great photo session! Kaushik had plenty of props to keep my son entertained, laughing, and happily posing.Afterward, he was incredibly patient as we went through every single photo to pick our favorites, even though we kept changing our minds. I highly recommend his service and will definitely be back once my second baby is born!
We had a large family photoshoot to do which can always be tricky. Kaushik was absolutely fantastic with a myriad of toys and noises to get smiles out of the little ones (they are still talking about the mouse on a stick!). Kaushik took the various different combinations we wanted and positioned each one expertly.
I took my elderly parents to have photos path the grandchildren. The whole experience from photo shoot to choosing and picking up the photos was amazing. Kaushik was polite helpful and friendly and made all the kids and my elderly parents feel comfortable. They all enjoyed the experience and the photos were amazing. He even delivered them home on Christmas Eve!
What we offer
Family photography in Richmond upon Thames
Extended family groups
Three generations photographed together, then in smaller groups, while the youngest still wants to join in.
Newborn and baby sittings
Newborn work done at home, beside the window, on the baby's schedule and not on a photographer's.
Local and experienced
Small details and first birthdays
A cake smash follows a fixed order, tidy portraits in a good outfit first, then the cake, then a clean-up, and that order cannot be reversed. Dress your one-year-old in something you can afford to ruin, and pack a change of clothes for the trip home.
We also photograph the small things, a baby's feet, a parent's hand, the curl of a fist, because they change within weeks. Once the edit is done you receive an online gallery and can pick prints, frames, canvases or a hand-finished album from it.
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Richmond upon Thames parks and gardens for a family session
With children, a Richmond session works best where they can run on grass and reach a café without a long walk, so the photographs happen while everyone is still cheerful. Each park listed has a link to its published details, so you can look at the paths and facilities before the day. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park is a Georgian mansion with tea rooms and gardens looking out over the Thames Valley. 1
- Parkland borough. About half of the borough is parkland, including Richmond Park, Bushy Park and Kew Gardens, and it also contains Hampton Court Palace and Twickenham Stadium. 2
- Diana Fountain, Bushy Park. Bushy Park, more than 1,000 acres beside Hampton Court Palace and once Henry VIII's deer park, has the Diana Fountain designed by Sir Christopher Wren as its best-known landmark, plus woodland gardens and avenues of ancient trees. 3
- Photography permits in the Royal Parks. Wedding, civil partnership and lifestyle photography such as family portraits in the Royal Parks, including Richmond and Bushy Parks, needs a permit from the park office, each covering up to ten people for one hour. 4
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Family Photographer in Richmond upon Thames, FAQs
Both, and who is coming usually decides it. Outdoors for Richmond upon Thames means Richmond Park, where open grass suits children who need to run and an old tree gives them somewhere to keep coming back to. Indoors means Northwood, the sensible choice for a baby, for anyone who cannot manage a walk across grass, or in a soaked February.
Yes, and they are done at home rather than outdoors. A newborn is photographed where the heating, the feeding and the changing already are, so the session comes to you and gets set up beside the biggest window in the house. Plan on two or three hours, most of it spent waiting. Richmond Park keeps until the child is walking.
You can indeed. We can plan a series across the first twelve months: newborn pictures at home, then sitting up, first steps and a cake smash around the first birthday. Side by side, the pictures show just how fast that year goes.
The choice runs from fine prints and framed pieces to canvases and hand-finished albums, each designed around the images you like best. You look through the edited gallery online first and choose products afterwards, with no need to decide on the day.
Yes. Large groups in Richmond upon Thames work better on open grassland than in any room, because there is space to build three depths without anybody hidden behind a shoulder. There is room on the grassland for a wide arrangement wherever the ground is even. We photograph the whole party, then break it into families, then the children. Send a headcount and any mobility issues beforehand.
Serving Richmond upon Thames
A family photographer near Richmond upon Thames
We photograph family sessions across London, and we travel to Richmond upon Thames (Greater London) from Northwood, about 12 miles away. It sits close to Kingston upon Thames and Hounslow, which we cover too.
About half of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is parkland, including Richmond Park, Bushy Park and Kew Gardens, which gives a family session plenty of open ground to choose from. Relatives joining from elsewhere in London can take the District line or the Overground's Mildmay line to Richmond station, which is also served by South Western Railway. Richmond Park gives a family room to spread out, and a break for tea at Pembroke Lodge would suit younger children halfway through the session.
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More photography services in Richmond upon Thames
The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Richmond upon Thames. Explore the rest: we also cover family photography across London, including Camden, Islington, Waltham Forest, Greenwich, Haringey and Hackney.
Richmond Park is grassland first and paths second, and for a family booking that ordering settles almost everything. Grass is an unrewarding surface for a pram and a worse one for a grandparent with an unreliable knee, and a nature reserve is managed for what lives on it rather than for wheels, so the walking is planned as a short loop from a gate instead of a march out towards a view. The open ground has a second, stranger effect on small children. Open grassland has no edges to it and nothing marking where the session stops, so children scatter in every direction at once and a parent spends the hour retrieving them. The answer is to anchor the whole thing on one of the old trees. A tree is a place, and a small child who has a place will orbit it and return to it, and that single change makes an hour workable. Deer help here in a way nothing else does: children watching something far off across the grass are doing the one thing that cannot be asked for, and those are the frames worth having. Grass height matters too. In winter the ground is short enough to lie on and everybody can be at the same level. By midsummer it can be over a toddler's head, so we keep to whatever is short enough to see a toddler standing in it, and a wet week moves the booking instead.
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How it works
How we work in Richmond upon Thames
For Richmond upon Thames, about 12 miles from Northwood, we work on location. That might mean the grass near Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park, the riverside parkland at Marble Hill, or your own front room, and we bring whatever light the place needs.
Your photographer is Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA: established 2001, with five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Not in Richmond upon Thames? See family photography across South London, where Kaushik comes to you. For every other service, see photography across South London.
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Planning a particular occasion in Richmond upon Thames? There are dedicated pages for a maternity photoshoot near Richmond upon Thames, 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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