Finally revealed - Lightmonkey's new home!

Berkhamsted and Tring Photographers Rachel Powell and Ceri Besent specialise in Family and Newborn Photography across Hertfordshire and from their cosy photography Studio.

This blog post is one that’s been coming for about six months, but we’ve been so busy taking and editing your beautiful pictures we just haven’t got around to it.

But now, finally, we can reveal some pictures of Lightmonkey Photography’s gorgeous new home.

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As many of you will know, for five years Lightmonkey was run from a home studio at Rachel’s house. There, the company grew from small, part-time start-up, run around nap times and nursery runs - to a full time business to which our lovely clients keep coming back year after year.

In 2018 we welcomed Ceri and around then we started hunting for a new home.

We saw A LOT of properties, but we just couldn’t match the cosy, homeliness that worked so well in our home studio. We wanted somewhere that dads felt comfortable having a snooze during a newborn session (sorry, but it is always the dads!). We wanted somewhere toddlers could run around and play between shots and somewhere that felt familiar and safe - not a cold impersonal studio.

We finally found our perfect home last summer, in The Old Silk Mill, in Tring. Its simple, modern, white and grey styling in the communal areas looks like something straight from Shoreditch and the studio itself was a blank canvas. We’ve been able to bring in the cosy touches, props, toys and lovely coffee that greeted you back in Northchurch - but with more space and practicality.

We have convenient lift access, space for pushchairs, snacks, hot drinks and a comfy sofa to chill out on between shots. There are also some lovely natural light areas in and around the building which have proved perfect for the natural headshots that we take for our business clients. And we have plenty of space for our ever growing collection of props and outfits. Downstairs we have the fabulous Doodle Caboodle play cafe which is ideal for siblings during a Newborn Session or a post shoot bite to eat. We can even order up some delicious food to the studio if our sofa proves far too comfy.

Thankfully our clients so far seem to love it as much as us. If you want more info on the studio, or where to find us, you can visit our studio website page here.

Here are some lovely behind the scenes pictures to give you an idea of just what we get up to in there.

We hope to see you there soon!