Book a Family Photoshoot
at Skógafoss

They don't have to — that's the point. Our family photographers don't direct children, they follow them: throwing pebbles into a glacial river, racing the wind, waiting for the geyser. The best family photos from Iceland are never the ones where everyone looks at the camera; they're the ones where your kids are mid-discovery. Photographers bring games, take breaks when energy dips, and time sessions around naps and snacks. A meltdown pause costs ten minutes, not the shoot.

Yes, with an important caveat: location choice matters more in Iceland than almost anywhere. Our photographers pick spots with boardwalks, barriers and short walks — Thingvellir's paths, the Geysir area, Reykjavik's parks — and stay well back from sneaker waves at black-sand beaches and from cliff edges. They also watch the wind forecast, because Icelandic gusts can knock a toddler over. Tell your photographer your kids' ages when booking and the route is planned around them, including where to retreat indoors if the weather bites.

Warm first, cute second — a cold child ends any shoot fast. Wool base layers, insulated waterproof outer layers, hats and mittens, and rubber-soled boots. Colour-wise, mustard, rust, deep red and forest green pop beautifully against basalt and moss, and knitted lopapeysa-style sweaters look wonderful in photos. Skip character prints and neon. Bring one full change of clothes per child; someone always finds a puddle, and in Iceland the puddles are glacial.

Each photographer sets their own price for a photoshoot at Skógafoss: every package on their profile shows an all-inclusive price, and nothing is added at checkout. Packages vary by duration and the number of edited photos — from a short session on the riverbed in front of the falls to a longer shoot that adds the clifftop platform and the quiet Kvernufoss gorge next door.

The flat gravel riverbed lets you walk straight up to the 60-metre wall of water for the head-on frame Skógafoss is famous for; on sunny days the spray throws a double rainbow across it. The staircase up the eastern side ends at a platform over the lip of the falls, and ten minutes' walk east, Kvernufoss hides a waterfall you can step behind — usually with nobody there.

Early morning for empty frames — the campervan crowd wakes late, and before eight you often have the riverbed to yourselves. Sunny middays are the rainbow window, when the light hits the spray straight on. In summer, the midnight-sun evenings turn the cliff golden with only a handful of people left; in winter the falls frame beautifully between ice and, on clear nights, aurora.