It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post – so much has gone on in the Summer holidays. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing my favourite photographs from portrait sessions held over the last few months.

As a Professional Children’s Portrait photographer, I am booked to photograph children of all ages. I work with natural light and on location in and around West Yorkshire and photograph newborn babies, toddlers, older children and teenagers.

This was a portrait session with a twist – as I had nine cousins, ranging from three to sixteen years of age, to photograph. We spent an energetic two hours in the lovely Middleton Woods, Ilkley – where the bluebells were in full bloom. The session was great fun and all the children were amazing to work with. As you’ll appreciate, I can’t show all the images – however, here are a few favourites from the session. I hope you like them.

Nine cousins | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

There were three boys and six girls in the extended family group and here are the boys having a great moment together with their youngest cousin looking on…

Cousins | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

Here are all the girls together – thankfully the bench was just long enough….

Cousins - all the girls | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

In the woods there was this little narrow bridge which the cousins found whilst exploring. Here one of the older cousins helps the youngest along…

Cousins | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

I spent time with each cousin and here are a couple of my favourite images…

Cousins | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

Cousins | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

Such concentration. Taken from a distance so not to disturb…

Cousins | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

I like to capture images of children that show their personalities and to do this I spend a good part of the portrait session observing and talking to them. Here the brothers were collecting and sharpening sticks and the youngest are totally engrossed…

Brothers | Extended family portrait session | Ilkley

It was great fun photographing so many children on one portrait session and I’ve been told that their Grandma was delighted with her birthday present – so I’m really pleased.

If you’d like to discuss a Children’s Portrait session with Cecilia Costello Photography, whether it’s to capture one child, siblings or lots of cousins together, please email me at memories@ceciliacostello.co.uk and I’ll be delighted to discuss your individual requirements. Thank you.

I love taking photographs in the Bluebells. The lovely burst of colour that blossoms on the woodland floor is simply stunning and provides a great background for my children’s portrait sessions.

As a professional children’s portrait photographer, I find that requests for children’s portrait sessions amongst the Bluebells are very popular as there are two fabulous Bluebell woods on my doorstep. One is Middleton Woods, Ilkley and the other is St. Ives Estate, Bingley. This portrait session was taken in the St.Ives Estate, Bingley one Sunday in May.

My client for the day was actually one of my nieces, Lucy.  We had a lovely time walking through the woods and chatting about lots of things. Here are some of my favourite images from the day. I hope you like them!

If you’d like to book a family or children’s portrait session then please get in touch and I’ll happily discuss your individual requirements.

Teenage Portrait session | Bluebells | Lucy

Teenage Portrait session | Bluebells | Lucy

Teenage Portrait session | Bluebells | Lucy

Teenage Portrait Session | Bluebells | Lucy

Teenage Portrait session | Bluebells | Lucy

Teenage Portrait session | Bluebells | Lucy

Teenage Portrait Session | Bluebells | Lucy