Photographer & videographer in Ajman

The Corniche is a long, public, west-facing beach with very little built on the sand side, and at seven in the morning it is a few joggers and the sea. That makes Ajman the practical choice for a family or maternity session on a beach without hotel loungers in every frame — and, for the many visitors who stay here on value, a session that starts at the hotel door. Sunset sessions face the sun over the water; the morning ones have the light behind you and the beach to yourselves.

Away from the beach the emirate has two different frames. The Al Zorah reserve to the north is a lagoon of mangroves with kayak routes and, in winter, flamingos. And Masfout, an Ajman enclave deep in the Hajar beside Hatta, gives mountains and dams to an emirate that otherwise has none. Ajman shares Dubai’s dress norms on the beach, but it is a more traditional town off it; the Ajman Museum and the old streets around it are visited covered.