Individual Portraits
Individual sittings at the Aquadrome or the Northwood room, with the background settled before we walk out.
Portrait photography in Rickmansworth for every age and occasion, from graduation to personal branding and couple sittings.
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Serving Rickmansworth
Portrait sittings for Rickmansworth are photographed on the reserve beside Batchworth and Bury Lakes, or in our Northwood room, and Batchworth, Maple Cross and Mill End sit in the same travel area. Most bookings here are one or two people who want something better than a phone picture and have put it off for years.
The choice that pays is the background, agreed before we set out. A treeline behind the sitter gives a dark, quiet backdrop; open grass gives a bright one. We will say which suits the clothes you had in mind, and it takes one message to settle.
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What we offer
Individual sittings at the Aquadrome or the Northwood room, with the background settled before we walk out.
Couples photographed together and then singly on one visit, so both versions exist without booking twice.
Hand retouching for the frames you choose, with print files and screen files delivered together.
Twenty-five years behind the lens
We meet at the entrance you name, walk to the first spot and work from there, moving twice at most. There is no posing drill and no list of set pieces. We keep altering what is going on rather than fixing you in place, and take the frames that fall out of that.
A private gallery reaches you a few days afterwards. The ones you pick are retouched by hand, and the files come at printing resolution with a lighter set for phones alongside. Nothing is thrown away before you have seen it.

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Either works. Sittings in Rickmansworth are usually photographed at the Aquadrome, meeting at whichever entrance suits you near Batchworth or Bury Lakes, and everything needed comes with us. If you would sooner be indoors, or the sky is against it, the room at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 takes the same booking. Sittings at home also work, provided one room has a window and space to stand back.
Allow roughly ninety minutes altogether, of which about forty is photography. At the Aquadrome the remainder goes on walking between the grassland and the treeline, which is a short distance. A sitting for one person finishes sooner. We would rather stop while the light is still good than carry on for the sake of filling the time that was booked.
We do, and they are a joy to make. Graduation marks real hard work, so we photograph it with warmth, in cap and gown if you wish. Sit for the portraits alone or with proud family, and choose prints, frames or an album to keep the day alive. Outdoors in Rickmansworth we would head for Rickmansworth Aquadrome, with Batchworth and Bury Lakes, open grassland and woodland walks.
We do, and love it. Portraits suit every age, and we are especially patient and gentle with young children, letting them set the pace. Whether it is a single child, siblings, or a wider group, we keep the mood playful and relaxed so the pictures feel natural and warm. Rickmansworth and neighbouring Batchworth, Maple Cross and Mill End are all covered.
Yes, and couples are a common booking in Rickmansworth. Two people move faster than a group does, so we photograph you together and then each of you alone on the same visit. At the Aquadrome the woodland edge gives a dark background that suits two people standing close, while open grass suits the walking frames. Both fit comfortably inside the hour.
Serving Rickmansworth
As a Hertfordshire portrait photographer, we know Rickmansworth and the towns around it well. It sits close to Chorleywood and Croxley Green, which we cover too. Getting to you in Rickmansworth is quick from our Northwood studio, with no travel charge locally.
Rickmansworth is a Three Rivers town in Hertfordshire, set where the rivers Chess, Gade and Colne meet north west of London. Rickmansworth station is an interchange served by the London Underground Metropolitan line and Chiltern Railways. Sessions on location near Rickmansworth often use Rickmansworth Aquadrome, with The Aquadrome close at hand.
More in Rickmansworth
The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Rickmansworth. Explore the rest: We also cover portrait photography across Hertfordshire, including Croxley Green, Chorleywood, Mill End, Hemel Hempstead, Watford and Sarratt.
The Aquadrome is a nature reserve as much as it is a park, and the first thing to say about it is what it lacks. Nothing on the site is built. No railings, no brickwork, no shop lettering, nothing that will pin a photograph to a particular decade when somebody looks at it again in twenty years. A sitting made out there ages at the speed of a haircut, which is a better argument for the place than scenery is. The feature worth planning around is the edge where the open grassland stops and the woodland walks begin. Stand a few paces out into the grass with the trees behind, and the sitter is in full open light against a background several stops darker, so the face lifts away from it with nothing carried out there at all. Turn it about, sitter under the trees looking outward, and the frame fills with bright gaps of sky between the trunks, and the exposure follows those instead. That dark treeline also settles the clothing question, which usually gets a vague answer. Pale and mid tones keep their outline against it. Navy, charcoal and black do not, and the sitter turns up in the picture as a head and two hands with nothing joining them. Late summer is the stretch that needs thought. Once the grassland has gone over it is straw coloured and brighter than skin, the meter pulls the face down to hold it, and sittings are better booked for once the light has dropped off the field.
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At the studio
Rickmansworth is only a few minutes from our studio at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU. Walk in for passport and ID photos, printed while you wait, or bring prints, frames, old photographs and negatives for us to work on in house. We are open Mon to Sat 10:30 to 18:00, Sun 13:00 to 18:00.
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