If you’re staying in the kind of place celebs love to stay in, you might as well hire your very own paparazzo to take care of your holiday snaps for you. After all, when you want to capture those moments where you looked utterly glamorous in a stunning place, third-rate photography just won’t do.
How do you go about hiring a photographer you ask? Well, resorts like the Hilton Maldives are doing all the legwork for you – each is signing up a pro snapper to take up residence as its dedicated photographer.
In the case of the Hilton Maldives, they’ve hired Tanya Sorokina who, after a career that’s taken her all over the world from Russia to Vietnam, specialises in wedding, couples, family and underwater photography.
It’s all fairly flexible. Hotel residents can hire her for a session that lasts from anything between one hour and the whole day (quite whether she gets breaks for eating and sleeping isn’t clear). Sixty professionally edited images will cost around $250 plus taxes.
Okay, so the pictures are probably going to be a little more staged than those long-lens shots you see of celebs frolicking and sunning themselves in idyllic destinations. But hey, if you’re comfortable being the subject of a little voyeurism, maybe you could ask your photographer to stalk you for the day and capture those more, how should we say, “real-life” moments. Like when you’ve embarrassingly applied too much sunscreen and it won’t rub into your skin … or, when you haul yourself out of the pool and your bathing suit slips a little causing an unintended and cringe-worthy reveal.
We’re sure the tricky details can always be worked out in the editing. They can do marvellous things with Photoshop these days.
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