Love and gratitude to the Mother!

Today is the Mother's day in Sweden. Children of all ages show their gratitude to all these very special persons!

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Christening in Turkey!

Wow! How exciting!
Just booked the ticket to Istanbul (via Thessaloniki) to photograph a christening there! :-)
We were there a couple of years ago for some holidays and the photos resulted to an article at the leading swedish travel magasine Vagabond (nr 04/2007).
Now we shall be a part of an approximately 35 persons group who all will work to make the christening day unforgetable for the parents of the baby and their guests, together with musicians, video filming crew, film-director and everybody else!
The celebrations will last 2 days with a daily cruise in Bosporus the first day and the ceremony plus the reception the day after.
Just praying for the icelandic volcano to take it a little easier now and for a nice weather in Istanbul!!!

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Hedvig!

It was some years ago that Mia photographed Josefin and Martin's wedding. Not only the pictures were beatiful, it was also such a joy to photograph the couple and be with them during the wedding day!
Some of their pictures actually became so much our favorite that we have used them in our homepage, in catalogues and leaflets, even in lifesize posters! :-)

Yesterday it was time to meet the couple and photograph them again, but this time they were ... three!
The little Hedvig has become the new member of the family and what a child full of life she is!!!
Laughing the whole time and not stopping moving for one second, though we photographed for a couple of hours.

Hedvig was dressed in charming, trendy pink clothes and accessories (just like her mother)! So sweet! :-)

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Helena and Mark

Today i met Helena and Mark for the first time. They are gonna get married soon so we spent some time drinking coffee, talking and planning about photography during their big day, and in the end we also took a walk and photographed a little.
Their first comment was that they did not know how to stand and what to do in front of the camera, and that it has not been often at all for them to pose for a photographer
(exactly the same words that almost every couple say when we first meet)!
We photographed for almost 10 minutes and during this time it felt like they were transformed into experienced models. Their photos talk themselves... :-)
Thanks Helena and Mark for your trust! I am so really looking forward to being with you all day at your wedding day!
Helena, i was really flattered to know that you had made your mind and chosen us allready since January, when we met in Grand Hotel!
I was also flattered to know about the other name that colleague photographers use for me; "greken"! :-))

Birthday celebration with friends!

When William and Isaak had their birthday (both been born the same day) they invited their friends for some party at Lekis.
Lekis is a very cool place! The children have a huge place indoors to climbe, jump, run and sweat, while the parents get the chance to meet each other and have some coffee. But the most important is that there is no need for cleaning at home after the party, and that the children are so tired after the party time that they are really looking forward to going early to sleep! :-)
The party was a real success and everybody is looking forward for the next one, hopefully at the same place!
ps: have you noticed that no girls are present/invited at the party? Well, the priorities are still diferent than, let's say, when having a similar party ten years later! :-)

Holidays in Greece.

Here comes a little teaser from our sailing holidays in Greece a couple of weeks ago.

Much more to come soon! :-)

(the photo is taken with a little Olympus 6000 compact camera. As mentioned before, we were on holidays... :-) )

GLAD PÅSK !!!

Tomorrow is Easter in Sweden. We wish all our friends, customers and readers of this blog a very happy Easter!

GLAD PÅSK!



Acoording to a swedish tradition since the 19th century, the small children will be dressed as withes and go around knocking at the doors, giving Eastercards that they have made themselves and getting back sweets and candies.
Well, witches in our days have become så cute! :-)

Our sweet Gabriel!

God Jul, Merry Cristmas kai Xρονια Πολλα!

We wish from our hearts Merry Cristmas to all of you, family members, friends and customers!

Love!

Mia and Γιώργοs

" The birds!!! "

We where in Vimmerby, sitting outdoors late in the evening and enjoying a drink at the bar of the Stadshotell there, when a sudden sound scared the birds that where sitting on the roofs of the surrounding buildings and they started flying!

Oh boy! The sky became almost black and it reminded me immedaitely of the famous horror film, dericted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963!

The irony was that we where at the village where the famous "Astrid Lindgren's World" is wellcoming hundreds of thousands of children with their families every year!

It's so ... exotic!!!

Some moments are both magical and exotic, at least for somebody who comes from an other southern european country!

The picture above is from the lake where our summerhouse is, in the north of Sweden and was taken just some minutes before midnight, in the midsummer!
It is the darkest moment of the night (and the quietest) before it starts getting light again!

(klick on the photo to enlarge it)

I just love it!!!

Midsummer in Sweden!