Couple photoshoot in Tenerife

On most of the mainland a couple photoshoot is a walk through one neighbourhood. On Tenerife the same walk can be had in three different climates within an hour of each other, and choosing between them is the real decision. La Laguna, at 550 metres, is usually under a lid of cloud that flatters skin and makes its ox-blood and pistachio façades glow; it is best before ten or in the blue half-hour. Anaga, above it, is a damp laurel forest where the mist itself does the work. Benijo, on the north-east tip, is black sand and sea stacks facing west, at low tide in the hour before sunset. Each is walked, not driven, so a session lives in one of them. We ask how the two of you dress and move, and the place usually chooses itself.

When to book in Tenerife

La Laguna works before ten in the morning and again in the blue half-hour, when the street lamps come on against the painted walls. Anaga wants mid-morning with mist in the trees; a cloudless day there is the disappointing one, so we check the sky that morning and keep La Laguna as the swap. Benijo is a sunset place and only at low tide, so its date is set by the tide table as much as by your diary. From May to September the cloud is most dependable in the north, which helps both the forest and the town. A winter front can clear the sky completely and leave long, sharp light that suits the beach far better than the trees.