Our sweet Gabriel!

"Skånsta Ryttare" riding club

Last Saturday we visited the local riding club in Åkersberga, to have a look there and ask about riding lessons for the children and the activities there.

That was the first time i saw horses being used as drag power by somebody who is skiing! :-) 

Well, it was rather smart and judging from the smile on the face of the young skier, it must have been lots of fun too! 

Kick off at Solliden.

Last Friday "Svenska Interpress" had it's annual "kick off" at Skansen in Stockholm.

Solliden was booked for the evening and what a beautiful place it was! Not to mention the view from there, especially when it started getting dark...

The company's CEO Peter Fagerström opened the evening ...

... and talked about the year that had gone and the plans for the new year.

The world finansial crisis and its influense on Interpress was also mentioned! :-)

The evening continued with dinner and entertainment...

... until early in the morning!

För att kolla på flera bilder följ länken här!

Kontakta mig för lösenordet.

The Nobel Banquet 2008 at the Stockholm City Hall.

As we wrote in our blog in December (have a look here and here), we were privileged to be asked to photograph the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm.

The experience was awesome, the photos became really nice, the people who contacted us from the Nobel Foundation were happy with them and we had had a really joyful evening.

Well, it doesn't happen every day to be able to talk to and photograph the royal family, top names from the political and financial life of the state, plus so many academics and Nobel Laureates, all at the same place in the same evening!

We were planning to show some of the photos that we took during that evening, here in our blogsite, with the kind permition of the Nobel Foundation, because it is the Foundation that owns the copyright of the pictures (as part of our agreement).

Some of the pictures though have been actually added at the official site of the Nobel Foundation itself.
Feel free to visit it and have a look at them by clicking here!

Beautiful photos!

Some time ago i was contacted by this young lady to photograph her wedding. She was also interested in a session to give a photo album as a morgongåva to her husband, the morning after their wedding day. We met at their home (as the bride-to-be wished) and photographed one evening.

Yesterday we received an email by the now married lady where, except from thanking us for the nice pictures from the wedding day, she also mentions "... (brudgummen) blev alldeles rörd av bilderna han fick i morgongåva. Han sa att han känner sig enormt hedrad över att få så vackra bilder! ..." (transl: "...the bridegroom was totally touched from the photos that he got as a present. He said he felt extremely honoured by receiving such beautiful pictures!")

It's this kind of emails that really make our day! :-)

Ulrika's gift.

In the end of December i met Ulrika, who wanted to be photographed while pregnant,  to give the pictures  to her Alex as a present.

The day that she was going to give birth was estimated as in the same week that Alex would have his birthday! This in combination with the fact that the baby is their first made her to decide for a special birhday present. 

Ulrika wanted to be photographed at her (their) home and wanted the pictures to have a taste of "studio / fashion" photography.

ps: special thanks to Ozzy, who posed with Ulrika and was so kind and quite!

pps: all the above pictures are shown with Ulrika's kind permition.

Love is in the air!

This weekend we exhibited at the wedding fair in Grand Hotel in Stockholm.



It was the third year that we took part there and by far the most successful. We met a lot of couples that came to see our work and talk with us, we met other colleagues photographers and made contacts with other professionals who work with weddings.

We offered again this year the little "bonbonniere" that has been so much appreciated the previous years.
Each one of them contains 5-6 sweet candies. Just to get an idea about the number of our visitors, we used 9 whole kilos of them!!!


Jonas and Oksana (from "Let's Dance") gave their proposition as how the new wed couples should dance their first dance as married couple...



... and "Chokladhuset" from Nynäshamn had the longest queue of those waiting to taste the delicasies of the house!


We must command also the wonderful voice of Therese Knutsson, who sang love songs in the same way as when she sings inthe church, during the wedding ceremonies.


Finally, the last photo is from Lisa and Fredrik, a very sweet couple that a couple of minutes before the end of the fair, on Sunday, were trying to take a self-portrait picture of themselves with the camera of their mobile phone. I gave them a helping hand and used our camera instead...
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Thanks to everybody who met us there and especially to the 64 couples that left their contact information to us to contact them for their wedding day's photography!

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Although a bit late, we would like to wish all our customers, visitors of our homepage and blog, as well as all our friends a very happy and prosperous New Year!

For us the previous year has been an outstanding one! Not only we have had the honour of cooparating with customers-friends that trust us and keep on coming back to us year after year, but we have also gotten the chance to meet new ones, and that's always exchiting.
We have met new people, we have learned a lot through seminars, photo communities and practice, we have renewed our presentation in internet and the social media, and we have travelled a lot both in the country and abroad! It has been wonderful and we feel so privileged about that. Thank you from our hearts!

This year we are celebrating the 10 years anniversary since we started together, Mia and myself, our "Orasis foto". A lot has changed and been improved since that time, both in our company as well as in the whole photographic world.
We feel challenged and hope that this year will be an even better one, with more people to meet, more travelling and even higher standards to reach. But most important, with the same joy as during all the previous years!

At the slideshow above you can see a selection of photos from the lsat year.
Feel free to click on the arrows to contro the speed of the show.

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The new "Allt om Bröllop"

We had the pleasure to see 2 of our pictures from Katrin and Olivier, and Caroline and Johan in the new edition of the swedish wedding magasine "Allt om Bröllop", which comes to the selves the 20th of January.





... and here comes the original versions:

Mommy's sweeties !

Some weeks ago i photographed U, who is pregnant in the 9th month.

The idea was that U would be photographed so that she had nice pictures from the tummy, but also to show in the pictures how beautiful and sexy a woman can be, even when the body goes through such extended changes. The pictures should look like studio/fashion pictures.

A nice album was made by them, in the like of "morgongåva" or "boudoir" photography albums, and is ready to be given to the father-to-be on Sunday, as a present for his birthday.

That's why more pictures can be added here only after next week, after the birtday (both his and the baby's :-) )!

New priests at the diochese of Stockholm.

Yesterday it was the first time for the new year to photograph the new priests of the Stockholms stift .
The ceremony took place in Storkyrkan i Stockholm, and was held by the bishop Caroline Crook.

New baby in the house!

Well, not exactly as it sounds but kind off ... !!!

We have finally, after a lot of "but" and "we see" decided that it's time to add the top "reportage" camera model of Nikon, the D3!




The cameras enorm capability to keep top quality on the images it delivers, even in really dark enviroments, its full format sensor that allows pictures that cover wider angles, plus the possibility to load the photos takenn in two separate cards, right the moment that a photo is taken (thus having instantly a back-up for events that can be repeated), are the 3 major reasons for having it in our camera bag!

I had the chance to use it first time last July, at the DN-Gala, and since then i have just been thinking of it!
New opportunities for beautiful pictures!!! :-)

(for those who would like to have a more thorough look at the camera, a presentation can be seen here)

Meet us at Grand Hotel!

It's only a couple of weeks left untill the Grand Hotel will open its doors for the new couples that are getting married in 2009.
For the 3nd year on row we shall be there, in the magnificent enviroment of the Grand Hotel, at Spegelsalen, place S:21, looking forward in meeting you!

Being lazy!

It has been almost a week without the sress of the work, the pictures that have to be delivered ... yesterday (!) and the not ending hours in front of the computer working on Photoshop!
It's almost too good to be true! :-)

Instead it has been many hours with the family and friends and as many hours in front of the computer just surfing for the fun of it (especially the early morning hours)!

Today we thought of putting some order in the computer.
We double checked that all the important files with photos are secured copied at 2 external harddisks and then i finally installed a new harddisk in our Mac Pro and copied in it (one more time) the previous harddisk with all its continents.

Such a luxury with 5 Gbs RAM and 1000 Gbs free space in the harddisk, ready for the New Years pictures!!! :-))

Happy New Year!!!

Best wishes from Maria and Georgios for a very happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year!!!