Outdoor Sessions
Family sessions on the short winter grass at Richmond Park, with Northwood held back for wet mornings.
Family photography in Richmond upon Thames, a calm, playful session that suits toddlers and grandparents alike.
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Studio in Northwood HA6, we travel to you · weddings from £750 · free consultation
Richmond upon Thames and nearby
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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What we offer
Family sessions on the short winter grass at Richmond Park, with Northwood held back for wet mornings.
Three generations photographed together, then in smaller groups, while the youngest still wants to join in.
Newborn work done at home, beside the window, on the baby's schedule and not on a photographer's.
Local and experienced
Cake smash sessions run in a set order: clean frames in a nice outfit first, then the cake, then a wipe down, because it never works in reverse. Outfits for a cake smash should be something you do not mind losing, and a spare set of clothes for afterwards saves an uncomfortable journey home.
Details matter as much as the portraits: the parents' hands, the baby's feet and all the small things that vanish again within a few weeks. Your gallery arrives beautifully edited, and you can choose prints, frames, canvases or a hand-finished album.

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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. A popular option follows baby right through their first twelve months, starting with newborn photographs and moving through sitting up, first steps and a cake smash at one. Looking back on how quickly your little one changed is a real joy. For outdoor photographs in Richmond upon Thames we would suggest Richmond Park, with wide open grassland, ponds and ancient trees for outdoor sessions.
You can choose from fine prints, framed wall art, canvases and hand-finished albums, all designed around your favourite images. After your session you view an edited gallery online, then pick the products that suit your home and your family. Landmarks we can work with near Richmond upon Thames include Richmond Park, a Royal Park and National Nature Reserve home to herds of deer.
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
We photograph family sessions right across London, and Richmond upon Thames (Greater London) is well within our regular patch. It sits close to Kingston upon Thames and Hounslow, which we cover too. You are always welcome at the Northwood studio too.
A riverside south-west London borough famous for its royal parks and Thames-side setting. Served by Richmond station on the London Underground District line, South Western Railway and London Overground. When a session suits an outdoor setting, Richmond Park is a favourite near Richmond upon Thames, close to Richmond Park.
More in Richmond upon Thames
The same studio, 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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For Richmond upon Thames we work on location. That is usually the better answer for weddings, events, branding and team photography, since we arrive at your venue or office with everything needed. You are welcome at the studio in Northwood if you would rather.
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