Vacation photographer in Tenerife

Most people on holiday in Tenerife sleep in the south, around Costa Adeje, and the south is dependable: dry, bright, nearly cloudless. As a backdrop, though, it is a glaring and rather empty coast, and a hotel terrace looks like a hotel terrace anywhere in the world. A vacation photographer earns the booking here by getting you to the other side of the island for one morning. Forty minutes of road away, Puerto de la Cruz has Playa Jardín, black sand laid out by César Manrique among gardens and rock, and La Laguna has its colonial grid painted pistachio and indigo under soft cloud. Families with small children tend to pick the first, couples and friends the second. The one thing we insist on is an early slot in the trip, so that a calima morning still leaves days to move to.

When to book in Tenerife

Tenerife barely has a season, around 21 degrees in January and 28 in August, so the month matters less than the hour and the side of the island. In La Laguna the slot is before ten, when the streets are empty and the cloud often still sits on the town. On the beaches it is the last hour before sunset, once the sand has cooled and the light has dropped. Between May and September the north is at its most overcast, which is easy light for children and grandparents alike. Calima is the day to avoid: the Saharan dust greys the sea and can close the mountain roads. That is why we book the session in the first days of your stay, so there is somewhere to move it.