Newborn and baby photography for St Neots families

My studio is in Papworth Everard, on the road that runs from St Neots to Cambridge. From the Market Square it is about fifteen to twenty minutes, and for most families in St Neots that is a shorter, easier drive than going into Cambridge itself.

I have been photographing newborns, babies and families since 2010, and St Neots is one of the nearest towns to the studio.

Getting here from St Neots

Head east on the Cambridge road and turn north at the Caxton Gibbet roundabout: Papworth Everard is the next village. There are no motorways, no city traffic and nothing to find parking for.

From Loves Farm and Wintringham, on the Cambridge side of town, it is quicker still. From Eaton Socon or Little Paxton, allow another five minutes.

There is a parking space directly in front of the studio, so the car seat comes straight from the car to the door. When you book you receive a short guide with the postcode and a description of the door, so nobody has to look for anything on the day.

A newborn session, a short drive from home

The first weeks are the time for newborn photographs, and they are also the weeks when a long journey feels hardest. That is the practical case for a studio fifteen minutes away.

The studio is kept warm for your baby, and there is a separate room for brothers and sisters to play in while they are not needed. The session follows your baby: feeds, cuddles and pauses are part of it, not interruptions.

There are three ways to book it:

• the Mini Newborn Collection — up to an hour, your baby and your baby with you;
• the Classic Newborn Collection — up to two hours, with brothers, sisters and the whole family;
• the Total Newborn Collection — the same session, every photograph, and a heART Fusion film.

Everything each one includes is on the newborn photography prices page.

If your baby was born at the Rosie, in Cambridge, the studio is a few minutes off your road home. From Hinchingbrooke, in Huntingdon, it is about fifteen minutes.

Outdoors in St Neots

Family and maternity sessions usually happen in the fields behind the studio, at the end of the day. But if you would rather be photographed somewhere that belongs to you, St Neots has three places I would suggest.

Riverside Park and Regatta Meadow. Wide, open grass along the Great Ouse, a few minutes from the town centre. It suits family sessions with small children, who need space to run more than they need a view.

Priory Park. Quieter and greener, and a good choice in high summer, when some shade makes the difference between a pleasant hour and a squinting one.

Paxton Pits, just north of town at Little Paxton. Lakes, meadow and woodland, and one of the best-known places in the county to hear nightingales in May. It is the one I would choose for a maternity session outdoors.

Sessions away from the studio carry a small travel cost, and the good evening light books up early from April to October.

Babies, first birthdays and families

The studio is not only for newborns. It is also where St Neots families come for baby sessions — sitting up, crawling, first steps — for cake smash first birthdays, and for family photographs outdoors. The maternity sessions happen here too, in the studio or in the fields around it.