Book a Photoshoot
on the Wörthersee

Professional photoshoots at the Wörthersee start from €310. Packages vary by duration and the number of edited photos — an hour on the Velden promenade or the Pörtschach peninsula, or two hours that link one of those with Maria Wörth. Most couples book 60 to 90 minutes; the lake is sixteen kilometres long, so a session that crosses from one shore to the other needs the two-hour option.

Maria Wörth is the picture of the lake: a small headland carrying two churches, with turquoise water on three sides and a cemetery terrace looking straight across. Velden's promenade of plane trees and jetties ends at the white castle, and Pörtschach pushes a wooded, rose-planted peninsula into the water with views both ways. Above the southern shore, the Pyramidenkogel tower holds the whole lake in one look.

Early morning gives the stillest water and the strongest turquoise, before the boats and the afternoon breeze work the surface. Maria Wörth is lit from the south-west, so it is at its best in the last two hours of daylight. July and August are hot, busy and the swimming season; late September and October are the photographer's months — the villas empty, the water stays warm and the colour is at its deepest.

Much of the Wörthersee shore is private garden, hotel ground or fenced lido, so plan around the public stretches: the Velden and Pörtschach promenades, the Maria Wörth headland road and the public bathing areas. The churches at Maria Wörth are free to enter outside services; the Pyramidenkogel tower charges admission and has seasonal opening hours. Check the current hours and any conditions before the day.