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.
Beautiful festive photos despite my littlest being very grumpy and disliking people on the whole! Very happy 🎅🏻 🎄 thank you
Rachel was fabulous with our 2 children. Very personable, and professional and took her time, particularly when our 3 yr old didn’t play ball initially. Her patience helped our daughter come out of her shell and participate in the shoot. Thank you so much Rachel, we highly recommend your photo shoots and absolutely love the pictures of our family.
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
We’ve had our photos taken for almost 2.5 years now with The Whitley Captures and they are always so beautiful. Rachel is amazing with our little girl and always has great ways of making her feel at ease, smile and laugh in the photos ❤️. 5 stars Rachel, you’re amazing!
Amazing from start to finish! Answered all my queries in a timely manner, fantastic with the kids - 3 under 5’s is not easy but she was incredibly patient with them and made them giggle and smile throughout. The photos are beautiful and compared to so many photographers, she is actually affordable! Thank you so much and I will definitely be back again one day!
What can I say…the images are stunning. Rachel was amazing with the kids, giving them gentle direction to be able to get the best shots. I’m blown away by the quality of the pictures and I can’t wait to come back and document more growing up of the kids.
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