Newborn photographer in Tenerife

A newborn session happens in your own home, so on Tenerife the light depends on which side of the island your window is on. A flat in the south sits in the volcano’s rain shadow: bright, almost cloudless and hard on a baby’s face unless the sun is off the glass, so we choose the room and the hour by where the sun is not. In the north, under the trade-wind cloud, the light through the same window is soft and even, much easier, though it can run dim when the cloud shelf is at its strongest between May and September. That is one reason two hours are booked and nobody rushes the feed. The coast rarely asks you to turn the heating up; if you live higher, say so when you book.

When to book in Tenerife

The session goes inside the first fortnight, so the date follows the birth rather than the calendar, and we book it on your due date. The hour depends on the window: in a south-facing room, early morning or late afternoon when the sun is off the glass; in the north, the middle of the day, when the cloud is brightest. From May to September northern homes can be dim on the greyest days, which is one more reason to leave the two hours unhurried. Winter evenings come early, so an afternoon slot then starts sooner than in summer.