Vacation photographer in Granada

Most visitors give Granada two or three days, and one of them already belongs to a timed Alhambra ticket. A holiday session here is planned around that slot, not against it. Inside the Nasrid Palaces you are visitors with a phone like everyone else, because a photographer working with you is not allowed in there. That costs less than it sounds: the pictures worth taking home are made from the other side of the ravine, where the Albaicín faces the fortress and the evening sun lands on its walls. So the monument gets the morning, the hottest hours go to a long lunch or a siesta, and we meet near the top of the Albaicín before sunset and walk down together. For a vacation photographer in this city, most of the work is timing: your ticket, the sun and the slope.

When to book in Granada

Book the Alhambra first and the session second; tickets for timed entry are the scarce thing. In winter the palace visit fits in the morning and we meet in the late afternoon, with sunset around half past six and snow behind the city from mid-December. In July and August reverse the day: the session at seven, while the Albaicín is empty and still cool, then the monument, then shade until evening. Holy Week and the Corpus fair in early June are the busiest weeks of the year in the old town, and the processions close streets, so a date outside them gives a calmer walk.