Your garden or usual walk
We come to your garden or usual walk anywhere from Bromley to Orpington, lead on or off.
Pet Photographer in Bromley
Pet photography in Bromley, with you and your animal photographed at home, on a favourite walk or at our Northwood studio.
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Northwood studio, HA6 · pet sessions in your Bromley garden or on the usual walk · free consultation
Serving Bromley
Relaxed pet sessions in Bromley
Pet sessions happen where the animal already relaxes: your own garden, a familiar bit of ground, or the countryside around Downe if that is the usual walk. We cover Bromley, Beckenham, Chislehurst and Orpington, and we come to you rather than ask a nervous animal to travel to a strange room.
The practical decision is height. We photograph from the animal's own level, kneeling or flat on the ground, which puts distance behind the head instead of gravel underfoot and stops a small dog reading as something looked down upon. It also puts the lens where the animal can see it, which settles a wary dog faster than coaxing from standing height.
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What we offer
Pet photography in Bromley
At the animal's level
Photographed from the animal's own height, so the background behind the head is distance rather than gravel.
Paced for the animal
Sessions end when the animal has had enough, not when the clock says an hour.
Paced by the animal
Photographing pets across London
We work to the animal's pace and finish when it has had enough, which is sometimes twenty minutes and sometimes a full hour. Nothing is gained by walking an older dog round a field a second time, and a cat is photographed indoors on its own terms or not at all.
You get the frames where the ears and the eyes are both right, edited so the coat keeps its texture, plus at least one with the owner in it, which most people want afterwards even when they did not ask.
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Pet portraits in the style a Bromley session would produce
Parks and walks in and around Bromley for pet photographs
Pets usually settle best somewhere with room to move. These places in and around Bromley are described from the linked sources; check any rules on dogs before you go. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Norman Park Norman Park on Hayes Lane (BR2 9EF) is a council park with a children's play area, football pitches and a car park. Source: Norman Park - Parks in Bromley - London Borough of Bromley
- St George's RAF Chapel, Biggin Hill St George's Chapel of Remembrance at Biggin Hill, built in 1951 as a memorial to aircrew who flew from the Biggin Hill Sector, has replica Hurricane and Spitfire gate guardians. Source: Biggin Hill Airport - Wikipedia
- Church House Gardens Church House Gardens is a mainly formal park just off Bromley High Street with a pond, flowerbeds and woodland; dogs other than guide dogs are excluded from most of it but allowed in the lower area between Ravensbourne Road, the Mill Pond and Glassmill Lane. Source: Church House Gardens, Bromley | GoParksLondon
- Down House Down House on Luxted Road, Downe (BR6 7JT), run by English Heritage, was Charles Darwin's family home for 40 years and is where he wrote On the Origin of Species. Source: Home of Charles Darwin - Down House | English Heritage
Good to know
Pet Photographer in Bromley, FAQs
We love to. Puppies and kittens change almost weekly, so it is worth booking a session in Bromley during those first weeks. Short, playful bursts let a young animal wander and explore, and that is when its character shows.
The session runs at your pet's pace, with time for it to settle before we start. Most run to about an hour, though we stop as soon as the animal has had enough.
Both. Outdoors in Bromley could mean the lower area of Church House Gardens, where dogs are allowed, for a short session, or ground further south for a dog that can be let off the lead safely. The studio is in Northwood, which is a long trip across London with an animal in the car, so it is worth doing for a settled dog and rarely worth it for a nervous one. Tell us which yours is.
Of course you can. Frames of an owner and animal together are often the ones people value most. Stand in the frame with your animal, or stay just behind us to keep it calm and looking our way.
Yes, and usually more so than for a young animal. For an older pet we keep it short and level: one gentle circuit, no long approach, nothing that asks the dog to run. We work from one position and let the animal come to us. Bring a familiar blanket or bed, because lying down is a picture too.
Serving Bromley
A pet photographer near Bromley
The studio is in Northwood, roughly 23 miles from Bromley, and we travel all over London for pet sessions. It sits close to Lewisham and Croydon, which we cover too. Pet sessions run at the Northwood studio or outdoors in Bromley, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Norman Park on Hayes Lane has its own car park, so a dog can come straight from the car to the grass. In Church House Gardens most of the park excludes dogs other than guide dogs, but they are allowed in the lower area between Ravensbourne Road, the Mill Pond and Glassmill Lane.
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Guides
Pet guides for Bromley
Two journal guides to read before a pet session in Bromley.
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Clothing tips for owners appearing with their pets in Bromley
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How it works
On-location photography in Bromley
For Bromley pets we usually suggest a session on location. It is usually kinder to the animal, since we bring everything to your garden or usual walk. The Northwood studio suits a calm dog that travels well.
Pet sessions are photographed by Kaushik Bathia himself, FBIPP and FMPA, who opened the Northwood studio in 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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