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.
Fantastic photos. Rachael is amazing from start to finish. I had packet from new born to 1 year old cake smash and each time was great and amazing photos
We had an amazing cake smash and bath photo shoot for our baby girl’s first birthday - I can’t recommend Rachel enough - she made us all feel welcome and we had such a lovely time, the little home studio is lovely and the images we received just days later were all incredible. Thanks so much!
Highly recommended! !! We booked a newborn photoshoot session and the whole experience was excellent from start to finish. The booking process through the website was straightforward and professional. Rachel was amazing — incredibly gentle, calm, and patient with our newborn. She handled him so naturally, soothing him whenever he cried and making the whole session feel relaxed and stress-free. We were a bit worried beforehand that our baby wouldn’t cooperate, but Rachel’s skill and calm approach made everything feel effortless, and the three hours just flew by. The photos are absolutely adorable and truly exceeded our expectations!! We really appreciate the patience and talent that went into capturing these special moments — they’re something we’ll treasure forever!
Visited twice now and over the moon with all photographs we have received. Lovely lady, welcoming atmosphere and amazing quality photographs. We wouldn’t use anyone else now.
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!
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
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