Welcome to PhotoBaby
Lancashire’s Favourite Bump to Baby Photography Studio
(According to all our happy clients)
Your newborn baby is amazing!
Your pregnancy and your baby’s first year is such a special time and it all goes by so quickly.
We can help you to capture these precious, fleeting moments. Our light and airy studio in the centre of Lancaster is dedicated to capturing the magic of this journey. Life is now, today! It is messy and wonderful and with children at the heart of it, it is bursting with love. So take stock and celebrate.
Maternity Portraits
Your pregnancy is the beginning of the most amazing journey of your life; your adventures in parenthood. So it’s a great place to start investing in your memories! Eleanor started PhotoBaby with her very own DIY bump portrait in her bedroom, and realised there and then she could be giving this special service to others.
Fourteen years on, that bump portrait is one of her most precious possessions, and maternity photography at PhotoBaby has grown into a real art form. Our upstairs studio space is dedicated to maternity photo shoots, with a private changing room and all our beautiful, bespoke dresses for you to try out posing in – no need to go investing in expensive outfits for your session, we have it all here!
Timeless, natural photography
“We’ve had beautiful images every visit!” Helen Robertson
“Wonderful staff and team!” Katherine Gibbons Pye
“Extremely patient!” Leanne Burbidge
Newborn
There are very few hard and fast rules about when you should make your family portraits, but if you know you want those squidgy, sleepy, curled up posed newborn portraits, you really want to try and come and see us within baby’s first two weeks. After that they start stretching out and don’t like to curl up as much!
We have a dedicated newborn station in the studio, with heat mats and white noise to ensure baby feels safe and secure. And it’s surrounded by all our many hats, headbands and swaddles – everything to hand. Once again you don’t really need to bring much with you, we have it all here.
Making newborn portraits is real specialism, it takes years of practice to really master handling and posing a newborn. Our caring, patient team have been likened to baby whisperers, many times!
We specialise in creating beautiful, natural images that will stand the test of time.
Treasures to mark the beginning of your journey with your beautiful family.
Nearly New
Not every parent is ready to dive out of the house with baby in tow during those first few days! So that is why we offer our Nearly New service. To make sure you don’t miss out on your newborn portraits. Three months in, your baby is still very little, very new, but you have had a chance to get to know each other and find your feet. And baby might even be smiling!
This might be your first visit to us, or you might be so awestruck at how quickly your baby is growing and changing, that you just have to come back and record this stage too. Or maybe now you are ready to bring along siblings or even fury siblings?
What ever the reason we’ll set up all our extra large wooden bowls and boxes that are perfect for this stage and make sure you go away with a collection of beautiful images that you are utterly in love with.
Blink and you might miss it!
This magic only lasts a moment.
Sitter Sessions
We love sitter sessions! When your baby reaches this stage in their milestones journey, they find everything a joy and a wonder. Pop them in a bucket and watch them laugh with glee, or strip them off to celebrate their amazing peachy bottom while they do their amazing lizard pose on our bed!
Striving to be the Best
Our favourite moto is “What would the best do?” and it never steers us wrong. Every year we make a charity calendar to raise funds for a local charity. We donate monthly to the Woodland trust and recently we were featured on 22 kids and counting when Mila came for her newborn and then followed this with her cake smash photoshoot.
Eleanor is a qualified Master photographer, Jemma is working on her qualification and all our photographers are multi award winning.
We’ve received awards for both our image making and our customer service.