Canary IslandsPhotographer in Tenerife

Tenerife has two climates on one island and a 3,715-metre volcano between them, so the answer to "what will the weather be" is always "on which side".

Sessions from

€160

Private gallery in

48–72 h

10 reviews

★ 5.0

The trade winds come from the north-east and hit the island’s north coast, where they rise, cool and condense. The result is a permanent shelf of cloud at about 1,200 metres on the northern half — the mar de nubes — and a green, humid, frequently overcast north with laurel forest on it. The southern half sits in the volcano’s rain shadow and is desert: bare, bright, almost cloudless, three hundred and twenty days of sun. They are forty minutes apart by road. For photography that is an unusual amount of choice in a small space. A morning of soft, diffuse light in the Anaga laurisilva and an afternoon of hard sun on black sand are the same day. And above both of them, from about 2,000 metres up in the Teide caldera, you are over the cloud layer entirely: an ochre lava desert, a volcano, and a floor of white cloud below you with the peak of La Palma sticking out of it a hundred kilometres away. That last one is the photograph people come for and it requires nothing but a car and a two-hour drive.