A good beach photo is easy to love.  But, when is a good time to do a beach photo?  And by time, I mean the age of your child.  The first bit of advice I have is that in order to take a good photo, you have to love the beach.  I know it sounds redundant, but if you don’t love spending time at the beach, you won’t love hanging out there for pictures.  Your hair will get wind-blown and you might walk away with the soggy jeans.

If you do love the beach, YAY!  I do too.  A successful beach shoot involves a walking child.  Yes, it’s possibly to take a baby to the beach and get good photos.  But, if we’re talking best case scenario, it’s a child that can walk.  Why?  Because sitting and crawling babies are so tiny that even if you set them on a blanket, I have to zoom so far out to capture the landscape that the baby is super tiny in the photo.  If I zoom in to crop appropriately, you lose the essence of where you are.

And there’s the sand.  Sand that gets everywhere.  Sand that’s shoveled by the handful into the mouths of babes.  Crawling babies are just curious.  They want to crawl right off that blanket and into the sand to taste it.

So, of course you can always book a beach session with a baby of any age, but my best advice is to wait just a little until they are walking to get the most out of your session!