How to choose a beach for your Cape Cod senior portraits

Here are 5 ways to choose a beach for your Cape Cod senior photos:

• Choose the one outside your door (or your grandparent’s door) that you’ve been going to since you were a baby.
• Choose one based on the elements that are there, like a gorgeous boardwalk, or a jetty, a grassy path or a dock…
• Choose your favorite beach. We all have them. Except me, maybe. I think I love all beaches no matter where in the world I am. Though I might have a few I’m especially partial to.
• Choose one based on the location you’re staying, you know, you’re in Dennis, why not go to the same beach you’ll be hanging out at all week.
• Ask me, and I’ll help you choose one based on all of those things…

Like us, beaches have their own personalities. You can find so much variety on Cape Cod for your portraits, soft sand and gorgeous green grass, huge pounding surf, rocky beaches, jetties, boardwalks, docks, sailboats in your background or maybe cliffs in your background…

My favorite beaches to photograph my portraits on are those that are special to you and your family, so many of my portraits are taken on beaches that people have grown up on. And when you know and love a beach, you know it’s your beach in the photo, even if the average passerby might not know.

Maybe it’s your favorite fishing spot. Or dreaming spot. Or drawing spot.

Maybe it’s a few steps outside your door.

Wherever you choose, Cape Cod has the beach for you… Give me a shout, we can chat about what beach you’d like to have your senior portraits taken on… I can’t even believe I’m about to write this, but my summer is filling up fast, so it’s a good time to chat…

Beaches pictured, top to bottom:

Smuggler’s Beach, aka Bass River Beach, South Yarmouth

Sandwich Boardwalk, Sandwich

a private beach in Cotuit

Kalmus Beach, Hyannis

a private beach in West Yarmouth

Sandwich Boardwalk, Sandwich