Caring, award-winning, family portrait and lifestyle photographer, offering studio or location photography.
Natural photo shoots, where your most important people are my most important people too. Based in Sherburn Hill, Durham, covering the North East.
A posed photo shoot perfect for babies from newborn to sitting, and include sibling and family captures too!
Whether you have a location in mind, or need some inspiration, outdoor shoots are lots of fun in the glorious British weather!
Cake smashes are suitable for up to age 4, and include a custom design to suit your preferences, and the cake to take home to finish off. Additional bath splashes are available as an add-on.
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Our landscape art is available to purchase as a hard copy, with the option to add a simple black, white or wooden effect frame. Prices vary.
Rachel has photographed my children on many occasions over the last 5 years, both indoors and outdoors. This really isn’t an easy job! Her patience and skill never ceases to amaze me, and my family have so many treasured pictures as a result. She isn’t just a photographer - she’s a magician!
What an amazing experience from start to finish! 😃 we have just received our photos back from our little boys first birthday cake smash and they are absolutely amazing! Rachel managed to capture every part of my little one's personality - cheeky, happy and cute! The entire process - from booking to receiving our final photos - has been seamless. Rachel had a fantastic selection of backdrops to choose from and had our photos back to us within a matter of days. 5 ⭐️ customer service! We felt so welcome at the cake smash, and Rachel was fantastic with Theodore, letting him explore and get comfortable before making him laugh and giggle non stop! Thank you so much - would 100% recommend The Whitley Captures to anyone looking for beautiful family photos.
Rachel was very welcoming when we arrived, she was very patient and amazing with Miles! She made us feel comfortable and was very hands on with everything. She did amazing and the results of the photos are fabulous!! Thank you again Rachel, I appreciate it ❤️
Highly recommend Rachel. From the initial enquiry of booking a cake smash photo shoot she was very helpful even with my numerous questions. She went out of her way to make sure everything was as perfect as could be. Email updates and choices to choose from were fab. The actual photo shoot was brilliant and Rachel must have the patients of a Saint haha as my little tinker just wanted to play with the balloon. We've just got our final photos back and we are over the moon with them, thank you
Rachel was recommended by a friend and so glad we contacted her! Amazing newborn and mini shoot for my daughters. The atmosphere was very calm and she is very professional. Rachel made everyone feel comfortable on the day of the shoot. She delivers in a timely manner and love love her style of photography. We were back second time for my husband’s mini shoot but i’m 100% sure we will be back for more sessions x highly recommended. thank you Rachel
We’ve had four photoshoots with Rachel this past year and our little one is only one. If that doesn’t tell you how good she is, I don’t know what will! Rachel is warm, friendly and really knows how to capture your little ones personality. Each and every photo she has taken have became my favourite, and I’m fastly growing out of wall space to hang these. Rachel is super quick and will get your photos back to you as quickly as possible, and will even add the extra sparkle (sparkle on pics for Christmas, glowing lights for birthday shoots). There’s simply no one else I’d choose to get my photos with. Thank you so much Rachel, and no doubt I will see you in in the future 🤍
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