Yana Skakun
Yana Skakun
Bradford · West Yorkshire · Brontë Country
Roberts Park · Baildon Moor · Haworth · Hardcastle Crags
Bradford's landscape setting is extraordinary — the Victorian mill town of the Aire Valley gives way within minutes to open moorland of genuine power. Roberts Park in Saltaire (UNESCO World Heritage Site) sits at the valley floor in a beautiful riverside setting. Above it, Baildon Moor and the Brontë Moors above Haworth offer some of the most dramatic and elemental outdoor photography settings in the north of England.
Maternity sessions in this landscape carry a depth and quality that is distinctively Yorkshire. The light in late summer across the heather moorland — warm, golden, and dramatic — is unlike anything else in England.
Outdoor Bump
£200
1 hour · 25–35 images
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Extended Session
£295
1.5–2 hours · 45–60 images
28–34 weeks is ideal for outdoor maternity photography near Bradford. For the West Yorkshire moorland locations, late August is exceptional — the heather on Haworth Moor and Baildon Moor blooms purple-pink and the long evening light turns the landscape gold. Spring is beautiful at Roberts Park in Saltaire when the riverside is lush and green. Autumn at Hardcastle Crags gives amber and copper beech woodland colour.
Haworth Moor is one of the most dramatic and memorable maternity photography settings in the north of England. The landscape is genuinely elemental — vast heather moorland, enormous sky, the ruined farmhouse of Top Withens on the horizon. In late August when the heather is fully purple it is extraordinary. The light can be very dramatic here — golden in the late afternoon, or moody and cinematic under cloud. Sessions at Haworth feel like photographs from another time.
Roberts Park is a beautiful Victorian riverside park sitting at the edge of Saltaire — the UNESCO World Heritage site built by Titus Salt. The River Aire, formal Victorian gardens, mature tree canopy, and the mill buildings visible behind make it an excellent accessible maternity location. It is calm, gentle landscape — a very different character to the open moors above, but beautiful in its own right.
Yes — I cover Bradford and the whole of West Yorkshire including Leeds, Halifax, Harrogate, Keighley, Bingley, and into the Dales. Travel within 25 miles of Bradford is included in session fees.
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Haworth Moor, Saltaire, or the West Yorkshire Dales edge — let's find the perfect setting for your bump portraits.