We are a couple at work and in life. Georgios is from Greece while Mia is Swedish. We both love photography and this is how we met eachother!
We are based in Stockholm but we hapilly travel all over the world for destination photo-sessions or just for the pure joy of travelling of course! We travel more than happily for destination weddings in Greece and other countries.
You can reach us at info@orasisfoto.se , call us at +46 73 6505106 or through skype at "orasis".
We talk fluently sweedish, english and greek. And by the way, we are Nikon and Mac fanatics! :-)
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Είμαστε ο Γιώργος κι η Μαρία, ζευγάρι στη ζωή αλλά και στη δουλειά. Και οι δυό μας λατρεύουμε τη φωτογραφία, άλλωστε μέσω αυτής γνωριστήκαμε. Ταξιδεύουμε ευχαρίστως για τις φωτογραφήσεις μας, η χαρά μας δε είναι ακόμα μεγαλύτερη όταν πρόκειται για φωτογράφηση στην Ελλάδα.
Στείλτε μας μύνημα στο info@orasisfoto.se , τηλεφωνήστε μας στο +46 73 6505106 ή βρείτε μας στο skype στο "orasis". Αν εκείνη την ώρα φωτογραφίζουμε, θα απαντήσουμε το αργότερο σε μια εργάσιμη ημέρα. Ευχαριστούμε που μας επισκεφθήκατε! :-)
This was the second time we photographed a "photo booth" during a wedding and it was again so much welcomed and enjoyed by the guests as well as the newlyweds. But this time it was a little more advanced; the guests could also send a message to the couple, thanks to a little board we found at Haga Slott.
The guests could be photographed as they want and they could send any kind of message to the couple. The couple had no idea about the messages...
Xiaolu and Michael, we hope you have a nice vacation/trip back to Genéve and we thank you once more for the trust and the wonderful time we had with you during these three days in Enköping!
Dear guests, who came to the little studio in the basement, you were really amazing! Thank you for the fun and the laughs-to-tears!
When i first met Emma and Simon, in the begining of the year, it stroke me directly how familiar Emma looked to me, but i could not really remember from where. Then i thought that maybe she had been framed in some of our photos that we use to see very often on the screen of our computer (a photo from some of her friends' wedding or from the Unversity in Stockholm) and in the end started to look so familiar. It has happened several times before.
It was Emma that asked me after a few minutes if i had been one of her classmates at Lärarhögskolan in Stockholm some years ago, when we travelled to Tändalen for skiing. Well, i was so focused then on trying to learn skiing at the age of 40 that i could hardly remember any of my classmates there! :-))
We met again with Simon and Emman last week to plan a little about their wedding day and take some photos. Both of them were great and it was a lot of laughing during the session.
Now we are looking forward in meeting them again at the end of July when the wedding is going to take place!
Sitting in the office working with photos, while the temperatures in Stockholm are around +30° C, i can't resist going back to the photos from a wedding we photographed this winter.
Carolina had just gotten married with her Fidde, and everybody run in the warmth of the house.
Her sister with her fiancé were the last ones to go in, after they had picked up some things used during the ceremony. On the way to the house they stopped for a kiss and a hug.
With temperatures over 30 degrees Celcious, Anna and Paul got married at Skebo herrgård last week.
They had a beautiful ceremony at Söderbykarl church which was followed by champagne, photos with all the guests together and, a little later, the reception at the really cozy and full of atmosphere Skebo country estate.
Right now they are enjoying the start of their live together at some really exotic place, far away from Sweden, but a dvd with their photos is already on the way to their home by post.
Kristina and Lars got married when the ice in Sweden had just started melting.
The couple had decided to have the wedding ceremony outdoors near the water, and everybody was wondering how it would look like there after all the ice had gone.
This was the reason that the bride's friends decided to make her a couple of boots that would pass with her bridal gown. They bought them and then decorated them themselves.
The bride was offered the present by her friends during her bachelorette party, just a few days before the wedding day. And they really saved the day! :-)
(ps: the second photo from above is decorating the couple's walls as a framed enlargement)
We are so pleased to announce that in cooparation with "Lundeby & Co as"as well as the"Jorgensen albums"we have the pleasure to treat your wedding photos in luxurious albums imported from Australia. There is a whole line of sizes, designs and materials to make your album as unique as the moments you have experienced during your wedding day!
Anya and Erik, your album is ready and on time for your next visit to Stockholm and, of course, your first anniversary!
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I was going through the photos of Li-Yeung's wedding when i saw the photo above and i could not resist to show it here. It is actually some detail shot of the bride's mother who came to the wedding in a wonderfull traditional dress of Korea.
Pink IS the colour!
(the photo is a little cropped due to the wish of the wedding couple for anonymity)
Here comes a photo of a bride-to-be who has been photographed to give a present to the groom their first day of life as married together. A military wedding is coming soon!
On Saturday i shall have the pleasure to attend and photograph the wedding day of Anna and Anders!
This is actually the first time as far as i can remember that i am not stressed about the weather at all!!! Of course i want it to be beautiful because i know that this would make the wedding couple happy, but as far as photography is concerned, i think we are going to spend most of our time in the very old and beautiful Bogesunds slott.
It was there that we met a week ago, to plan about the session on the wedding day and photograph a little. Well, we could not stop! Four floors just for us, with very old, colourfoul tapestries, large windows and spacious rooms! It can't be better!
Looking so much forward your wedding day , Anna and Anders! :-)
tags: bröllopsfotograf, bröllop, wedding photographer, wedding, gamos, fotografisi gamou, γάμος, φωτογραφία γάμου, destination wedding, wedding photography, bröllopsbilder, Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait; Anna och Anders, Bogesunds slott, Vaxholm
I had just come back from C's photo session and wrote a line about it on our wall at facebook when i got the response from Therese, who wished to have a similar session for her beloved.
During the messages we changed to find a theme and an available day for both of us, Therese named two things that stuck in my mind.
The first was "... jag litar på dig ...", ("i trust you"), which made me feel extremely flattered but at the same time raised the bar of the quality of the photos even more...
When i came to her home for the session i got a little surprise; her boyfriend was also there but he was not "allowed" to come close while photographing. When i asked her "...wasn't it suposed to be a surprise present to him?" she answered "i know, but i can not keep secrets from him!". So sweet!
Well, here shows one photo only because the rest will be shown in a couple of months.
Therese looks gorgeous, which reminds me of the second thing she mentioned during the facebook-messages: "jag är dock inte så fotogenique..." (" i am not so photogenic").
I met with C for the first time in Grand Hotel in Stockholm, in January 2009. She was one of the hundreds of visitors of the Bröllops Mässa (the Wedding Fair) and we did not talk for more than a couple of minutes. It was some months ago when she contacted us again and asked if we could photograph her wedding day and a few days later asked also about a photo session as a present to her husband. C took care of everything. She had a clear idea of how she wanted her pictures to look like, in what enviroment she would be photographed and she was amazing at posing! Actually the session went so smooth and the photos resulted at a beautiful 12-pages designed album. The picture above is one from the album and is shown here with C's kind permition.
After two wonderful weeks in Greece to celebrate the Easter, we are again back home trying to put some order at the chaos that we everytime find when we come back home after being away for some days. Tomorrow i am going to meet Kristina and Lars to photograph our second wedding this year. The weather is a little strange these days, changing from sunshine and 9 degrees Celcius to rain and almost snowing today. But the changes at the light where amazing and hopefully it will be beautiful light even tomorrow. But it will certainly be different than the day we met for some test-shooting almost a month ago; it was also then sunshine but the temperature was minus and the whole lake was frozen with some half a meter ice on its surface...
This weekend we had the real pleasure to travel to Abisko, near Kiruna, at the very north of Sweden, to photograph a wedding.
The bride with roots in Poland and the bridegroom with roots in Lappland. Both of them loving sports and the life in nature. They met eachother on Kebnekaise mountain some years ago, and they decided to get married at the top of the Nuolja fjäll, in the Arctic circle.
We had real luck with the weather, with a beautiful sunsine, although it was freezing cold. Everybody, including the wedding couple, arrived by chairlifts, but many chose to take the way back skiing or snowboarding, after the ceremony!
Here is just a preview while downloading the pictures from the weekend.
Yesterday we received this beautiful invitation that Carolina and Fidde sent to us for their wedding!
The couple is a really active one, very much interested in sports and especially in climbing on ice (Fidde is an instructor actually). So it did not feel as a surprise that they chose to get married outdoors, at one of their favorite places, the Abisko tourist station, in the end of March (Abisko is a small city some 150 km north of the polarcirkel, nearby Kiruna).
We only wish that we shall also have the luck to witness the fabulous Aurora while there and even farthermore to photograph the just married couple under it!
The whole day today we have been receiving numerous emails, telephone calls, SMSs and messages at facebook from friends, customers and "our" wedding couples, about the article at Metro concerning our work as wedding photographers.
We are thrilled, we thank you all so much and we feel rather strange seeing ourselves on the photos.
Well, a photo at the first page of the newspaper plus the whole first page and the following page of the extra supplement dedicated on photography, is not something happening to us everyday! And considering that the newspaper is read by milions of people everyday (both the paper 4 editions and the internet edition in the whole country) feels us with joy!
A special thank you to the happy newly wedd couple, Helena and Niklas, that gave us their permition for these pictures to be published. We are sure you have a great honeymoon in Thailand right now! And you don't have to worry for a wedding announcement at a newspaper anymore! :-)
In the middle of September we left Stockholm with near 0 degrees and arrived in Santorini.
At 8.30 in the evening and with 22 degrees C, the wedding couple with the bestman and one more friend were at the airport to welcome us and take us out for dinner, before they droveus to the hotel.
3 hours and lots of seafood and other greek delicasies later, we arrived at the hotel, left our things there and followed the couple for a drink at a club, where their friends were waiting. We left them at the bar and went to sleep at ... 06.30 in the morning!!!
That was a taste of what would follow the next days!
The couple with their closest friends had booked rooms at a wonderful hotel at Imerovigli, just a few meters away from the church where they would have the wedding ceremony.
The view from their hotel and the terace where everybody was gothering for a coffee was simply breathtaking.
The bride started getting ready for the ceremony at 3 pm with her closest friends. It was a change from the weddings we usually photograph to see so many of the bride's family members just coming in and out her room, huging and wishing, and being photographed with her!
On the meantime, the bridegroom with his friends did not look any stressed at all, just chilling out with a few drinks near the hotel's swimming pool!
Both the bride and the bridegroom were escorted to the church by their families and relatives ... with the bride almost dragging her father from anxiety to meet her love and come in the church!
After the ceremony and just before entering the venue where the reception party would be held, i asked the couple what was the schedule of the happenings there.
Nikos said they would cut the cake first and then they would go around the gests' tables to skoal with each one of them. Then they would sit down and take it easy for the rest of the night to get some rest.
"Won't you dance any?", i asked them rather surprised. "The first dance is always the bride's by tradition!"
"No, no!" they both anwered at once, "let the older dance! We shall take it easy!"
Well, he, he, yes the older did dance, but i don't think the couple got any rest either! :-)
By the way, the teenager who played greek traditional music from the islands with his violin was a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
Because of shortage of time we did not have the time for some photos of the couple with the bestman and the bridesmaid at the wedding day.
But we had plenty of time the day after! :-)
So out we were again, with everybody in the nice clothes (except me, it was some 30 degrees C). We also had the friends as our audience following us everywhere, plus dosens of turists who thought it was a photo session for some fashion magasine and of course stopped by to take their own pictures! :-)
Chara and Niko, our warmest congratulations and wishes for your life together! And many thanks because you were the reason for a wonderful time in a wonderful island!
Many thanks also to Jannis (the bestman), Giwta (the super happy bridesmaid), Niki, Ariadni (most beloved!), Aggelos and Paulina and everybody else, who welcomed us and made us feel as if we new you for years!
We love you all! :-)
And now klick on the slideshow below to see even more photos.
If the speed of your internet connection allows it klick here to see it in full HD quality (or choose another quality that suits your connection better).
Και τώρα δείτε ακόμα πιο πολλές φωτογραφίες στο slideshow που ακολουθεί.
Αν η ταχύτητα σύνδεσης σας στο ιντερνετ το επιτρέπει, πατήστε εδώ για full HD ανάλυση (ή για να διαλέξετε άλλη ανάλυση που σας ταιριάζει περισσότερο )
