{"id":7214,"date":"2018-02-26T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:23:11","slug":"best-locations-family-photography-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/index.php\/best-locations-family-photography-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Locations for Family Photography Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you thinking of booking a family photographer? Are you wondering what are the best locations for family photography sessions? Well hopefully I can give you a few handy tips for choosing great places to have your family photographed.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, it is a really important decision. When I photograph families, I love to include the context of where the family spend their time together. As the years go by it\u2019ll be wonderful for the children to look back on old photos and see the environment in which they spent so much of their childhood.<\/p>\n<h2><u>In the family home<\/u><\/h2>\n<p>I love to start my family photography sessions in the family home. This is the place where you spend the most time together as a family. It&#8217;s where you play, eat, sleep (maybe not enough in the early years!) and so much more. \u00a0I think it\u2019s so important to include this as a background when photographing your family. It really does add meaning to the images. In years to come, when your children and grandchildren are looking back on these photos, they will love seeing where they grew up. They&#8217;ll be fascinated how\u00a0fashions have changed\u00a0and\u00a0how untidy their bedrooms were! And on this note please don\u2019t worry about having the perfectly tidy home. Think of the slight chaos as adding character to the photos if you like! Do you want your children to look back and think they lived in a show home?\u00a0Or to remember life as it really was, with their Dad\u2019s socks hanging to dry in the garden? Well\u00a0maybe you won\u2019t want to keep it quite that real!<\/p>\n<h2><u>In the local park<\/u><\/h2>\n<p>Another favourite location that families like to use for their portraits is in the local park. This is a place where I certainly used to spend an enormous amount of time when my children were little. From the early days of pushing the baby around in the pram (to give yourself\u00a0a few minutes peace and quiet!) to when they start to toddle and play happily for hours on the slide and climbing frame. My kids are both in their teens now (well one\u2019s nearly there) and we still spend so many happy hours\u00a0in the park together. To include this vital element of their childhood into the images is going to mean so much to them in later life, especially if they end up moving away from the area themselves.<\/p>\n<h2><u>A trip somewhere special<\/u><\/h2>\n<p>Another great choice of\u00a0location is to go on a special trip somewhere the whole family is going to enjoy \u2013 a walk along London\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbanklondon.com\/index\">Southbank<\/a>, a trip to the Zoo, a boat trip down the River Thames\u2026\u2026. the possibilities are endless. And how fantastic to have the whole trip recorded in a documentary style. This idea can work really well if you want totally natural photos of your family, as the children will be so focussed on the trip itself that they\u2019ll probably hardly notice that they\u2019re being photographed.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever you have in mind for your family photography session, or even if you can\u2019t think of anywhere \u2013 please do get in touch and we can go through some ideas that will suit your family perfectly. That way we\u2019ll be able to make sure the true essence of your family shines through in the whole set of images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gallagher-1274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gallagher-1274.jpg\" alt=\"Mum. dad and four children walking hand in hand through Borough Market\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gallagher-1274.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gallagher-1274-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gallagher-1274-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you thinking of booking a family photographer? 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