Two weeks of photo camp in a row. I had never done that before; until then every one of my workshops had lasted one week. In November 2025 the time had come: the Tenerife Photo Camp, for the first time over two weeks. The first week ran from 9 to 15 November, the second from 16 to 22 November.
Tenerife for the first time
With the photo camp I had already travelled to many warm regions of Europe, including the Canary Islands. Fuerteventura always impressed models and photographers alike. This time we went to Tenerife for the first time.
Before that, I had often heard there were no locations on Tenerife. That’s why I flew to the island with Emmi before the workshop and searched myself. I tell you how that went in the post Tenerife Beyond the Postcard. In the end we had twelve to fifteen locations on the list.
The villa in the banana plantation
In the first week we stayed in a villa in the southwest of the island, not far from the apartment where I had spent the days before with Emmi. Three houses, idyllically set in the middle of a banana plantation. The villa was magnificent.
The second week was planned from the start, and I had booked the accommodation for it in advance as well. Only the same villa wasn’t possible: the second week reached the minimum number of participants only after the first week had already been firmly booked there, and by then the villa was no longer free. So in the second week we stayed somewhere else: on the east coast, older but bigger, and with a pool. We were all accommodated there together.
Models and locations
In the first week, Emmi and Sarah were in front of the camera. I had worked with Sarah before. And the participants of the first week were all old friends who had already been to the photo camp several times. I was really happy to see them all again.
On the first day I picked everyone up from the airport, in the evening there was a get-together, and then came five workshop days.
We used many of the locations from the scouting trip, spread across the whole island, including the Sanatorio de Abona, a lost place on the east coast, and our quiet spot at the Teide.
On Saturday I said goodbye to the first group and picked up the new one at the airport. Emmi was there for the whole two weeks; only Sarah was replaced by Lady Baltic in the second week. The locations in the second week were basically the same, just the routes there were different, because the accommodation was in a completely different place. We used the old dam in the middle of the mountains for photos in both workshop weeks.
Shooting in the morning, reviewing pictures in the evening
The photo camp was about nude and model photography, and above all about having lots of fun. On the programme were lifestyle, swimwear and nude, with five participants in the first week and four in the second, plus two models each week. We mostly shot in the morning and evening, so the relaxed part of the day didn’t fall short. In the evenings we reviewed the pictures over a glass of wine and the island’s good food. I had already tested the restaurants for that during the scouting trip.
My conclusion
The Canary Islands are really always worth a workshop, especially at this time of year. In November it’s still really, really warm there, and it stays that way all winter. And the light on the Canary Islands is always magnificent anyway.
The only drawback: in the end I spent 20 days on the island. That was a very long time. That’s why I’ll go back to limiting my workshops to one week in future.
What remains are two weeks of photo camp with lots of fun.
