Vacation photographer in Ibiza

The island is small enough that orientation decides everything, and the season everyone books is not the season that photographs. In July and August the road to Cala Comte is a queue from seven in the evening and a hundred people are standing where the photograph is; the same cove on a Tuesday in late May, or in the third week of September, is empty. In peak weeks we use the smaller west-coast coves — Cala Escondida, Punta Galera — where the same sun goes into the same sea with twenty people instead of four hundred, or we move to a Dalt Vila sunrise, which in August is the best session on offer.

When to book in Ibiza

Book it for the first days of the trip rather than the last evening. If the weather turns, the session moves to another slot at no cost, and there is still time in the stay to use it; the gallery then arrives while you are still on the island. The time of day follows the location: dawn for Dalt Vila, the last hour before sunset for the west coast, which runs after nine in June and July and closer to eight by late September. Families with small children often find the morning easier, because the evening light comes after bedtime in high summer. If your dates are flexible at all, late May, June and the second half of September make every location easier to reach.