Wedding at the Nuoljas Bergstation, i Abisko.

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.

Soon more photos to come!

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, Abisko, Lappland, Kiruna, fjällen, Carolina, Fidde,

Matematik-Biennalen 2010.

Some 4000 teachers in mathematics visited the Älvsjö trade fair in Stockholm, in the end of January, during the trade.

Margareta Forsbäck's lecture was one of the most sought-after lectures and was focused on the way to help younger children to learn the basic meanings in mathematics, with the help of examples from the everyday life.

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, Orasis, Älvsjö, Matematic-Biennale, mathematics, Margareta Forsbäck

Happy Valentine Day!

This post could also have "the power of love" as a title!

Angelii is a very brave young lady!

Her love has just gotten a new job many hundred km away, in Norway. He is leaving in two days and he will be staying away for a few weeks every month. Angelii thought of being photographed, to prepare a small album that he will take with him while away. The album would be given this morning...

Angelii chose to be photographed in a sensual and rather intimate way near the water. Well, literally ON the water. We photographed outdoors, on the frosen surface of a lake, in minus 6 degrees Celcius.

The session took almost an hour and while she was posing there almost naked, she kept on saying to me " keep on photographing, it's ok! " every time (kind of every other minute) i asked her if she would like to take a break and get some warm clothes on.

Although she has aproved for her photos to be published by us, we chose to use her portrait. The rest of the images are "for his eyes only".

Happy Valentine Day to you and your beloved, Angelii, and happy Valentine Day to all our friends and visitors of our blog!

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Destination winter wedding.

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!

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We don't give up dreaming...

When i close my eyes i am back to the "office" in Santorini, where we spent 5 wonderful days in September, photographing the wedding of Νικος and Χαρα!

The "office" was outdoors, had a temperature of some 26 * Celcius and a nice breeze, was near the swimming pool and had a magnificent view over the caldera. There was even a service for coffees and drinks...

Then i open the eyes again and look outside the window. The office this time is indoors because it is 21 * Celsius under zero.

The sweeds looove it! I have no idea how many words there are in the swedish language about the different kinds of snow and its noice when one is walking on it. Soon it is time for a week of winter holidays all over the country, so that the people will enjoy the winter sport activities.

I think i shall continue dreaming ...

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, Santorini,

Helena Palm.

Grandezza is an independent concultancy, working with Business and IT development. They are specialized in supporting their customers in their strategic planning process.

One of its consultants is Helena Palm, biolog, who was photographed as part of a series of portraits for a new project.

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, porträtt, Helena Palm, alumn, Stockholms Universitet, Grandezza, företags fotografering, consultancy.

Isihia - Silence

"Isihia" (= Ησυχία ) is the greek name for "silence".

I have travelled many times to the monastic community of the Holly Mount Athos, in Greece, where silence is very much appreciated by the monks who live there. It helps them concentrate on the spiritual world, on praying, on God. It helps them avoiding the distractions of the materialistc world.

Isihia (Bulgarian: Исихия, "hesychia") are a Bulgarian music band founded in 2000, the style of which unites elements of Bulgarian folklore and Hesychast Christian chant of the 14th century to create an atmosphere of Balkan spiritual mysticism (copied from Wikipedia).

Well, guess our surprise when we were contacted by the production company of the new album of the group, who were interested to buy the right to use 3 of our pictures from Athos for worldwide use for the new cd of the group.

The negotations are going on with the lawyers of the company and on the meantime we have the chance to listen to samples of the group's music at their homepage. They can also be found at facebook, as well as in the iTunes Store.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Georgios Athanasiadis, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, Αγιον Ορος, Αθως, Ησυχια, Πασχα, Ι. Μ. Ξενοφωντος, Isihia, Agion Oros, Athos, Eastern, Påsk, Moni Xenofontos, Silence,

some photos to catch up ...

We have not blogged for some time now, and the trouth is that we have been a little lazy due to the holidays but that we spent much more time with our children than the cameras and the computer.
But here come some photos from some of the jobs we have done during the last weeks.

The priminister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, came to the Stockholm University, to talk about enviromental issues. Unfortunately, his tight schedule did not permit a planned interviue with portrait photos, but it was a joy anyway to photograph him while adressing the audience, as you can see at the following contact-sheet.

The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council needed some photos for their homepage, from their meeting to discuss and comment the 2010 Budget Bill of the Swedish Gouverment (I was almost three hours with them but i can not brag that i understood that much with all that economy terminology!) :-)

The Stockholm University was visited by the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Tobias Krantz, who spent half a day there. He was photographed in front of Aula Magna during the 3-4 minutes that were booked in his schedule for that.

In Aula Magna was also Paul Crutzen photographed, during his visit to the University. As a Nobel prize winner in chemistry in 1995, this was not the first time to visit the place. His signature is part of the decoration of the wall near the entrance of Aula Magna.

Eva Brunne is the new bishop in Stockholms Stift, and on the 10th of January was at the Storkyrka for the cosecration of the new priests. That was the first time since she became the new bishop.

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The Nobel Laureates meet Alfred Nobel.

On Saturday the 12th of December we met the Laureates for the last time during their visit in Stockholm. It was at the Nobel Foundation where we should take a group photo under the portrait of "the man behind the Nobel prize".

Unfortunately, 2 of the prize winners were not able to attend, the President of the United States being one of them... But we did have the pleasure to get the book "The King Bows and Kills" signed by its author!

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, Nobel Banquet, Nobel, Nobel Bankett, Alfred Nobel, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel Foundation.

The Nobel Banquet 2009.

Well, how can this evening be described with words?

Maybe it is better to redirect you to some of our photos at the Nobel Foundation's homepage instead, until we put some more photos at our blog (use the arow above the photos to move to the next ones).

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, Nobel Banquet, Nobel, Nobel Bankett, Stadshuset, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel Foundation.

The Nobel Laureates in Aula Magna, SU.

On Tuesday the 8th of December the Nobel Laureates of this year visited the Stockholm University as guests of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. There, in Aula Magna, they kept a series of lectures about their works that was honored with the Nobel prize, and met colleagues and university students.

The lectures started early in the morning and lasted until the evening of the day. In the end the audienence had the chanse to meet the Laureates, talk with them and even get autographs.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel Foundation, KVA, Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademien, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SU, Stockholms Universitet, Aula Magna, Nobel pristagaren, Nobel Laureates, Svante Lindqvist, Elinor Ostrom, Willard S. Boyle, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Oliver E. Williamson, Mia Åkermark, Georgios Athanasiadis.

The Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum.

The Nordic museum opened its doors at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon for the Nobel Laureates and the other guests of the Nobel Foundation.

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The Nobel Laureates visit the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences hosted the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, as well as the receiver of the National Bank of Swedens prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel, yesterday at Frescati.

After the reception a dinner followed at the Club Villa.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel prize, KVA, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, Nobelmottagning

Waiting for the Nobel Laureates of 2009.

On Friday we met the pleasent people from the Nobel Foundation to get through the schedule of the activities that the Nobel Laureates of 2009 will be attending during their visit in Stockholm, between the 7th and the 13th of December.
It's an intense week with photographing at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademien - KVA), the Nordiska Museet, the Cityhall (Stadshuset), the Nobel museum, the Stockholms University and at the Nobel Foundation.
But this week is also one of the most interesting and spectacular to photograph of the whole year, and we are so much looking forward to it!

The picture above is from the banquet in 2008. Some more pictures from the same night can be seen here.
All the photos are shown with the kind permition of the Nobel Foundation. If you need pictures from the Nobel week, please contact the Foundation.


tags: Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Orasis foto, Alfred Nobel, Nobel banquet, Nobel Foundation, Nobelpris, Nobelbankett, Nobel prizes, Nobel Laureates

A bishop gets retired.

Some weeks ago, the 29th of October, we attended a special and very emotional ceremony at the Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
It was the ceremony where the bishop of Stockholms stift Caroline Krook left her official position as bishop.
The church was full of people who came to witness the ceremony, and to thank and wish good-buy to the leaving Caroline.
Part of the ceremony was leaving the bishop's crosier and cope, as a sign that the position was free now for the new bishop, who had already been elected, and who would be ordained a week later In Upsalla.
After the end of the ceremony there was a really long queue of all those that wanted to say personally a few words to Caroline Krook.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Svenska kyrkan, Stockholms stift, Caroline Krook, biskop, stavnedläggning, Storkyrkan

Published on the first page of "Metro".

We are sooo excited!!!

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! :-)

By Georgios.

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International conferens in Catalyst Chemistry.

In the middle of September the chemisrty Nobel Laureate in 2005 Robert Grubbs, professor in the California Institute of Technology, visited Stockholm and participated at the International Conferens of Catalyst Chemsisrty, which was held at Aula Magna, in Stockholms Univeristy.

The professor really kept the interest of the audience with his presentation, talked about the "green" catalysts, and made the audience laugh several times with his humor, especially when he mentioned the bath products from Victoria's Secrets line and "her logo" "think pink, live green"!

tags: Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, orasisfoto, orasis foto, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm's University, kemikonferens, Robert Grubbs, Nobelpristagare 2005, California Institute of Technology, Aula Magna, katalytisk kemi, catalyst, chemistry

Published soon in the whole Sweden.

Yesterday we had the pleasure to photograph the wedding of Helena and Niklas, who got married at Stefankyrkan in Stockholm.

The weather was not the best with some raindropps coming all the time and the temperature just a few degrees Celsius above zero, but the light and especially the autumn colours were magical!

It felt a little strange though during the session because there were another photographer and a reporter from a swedish daily magasine there, that were making an article about us, thus we were also being photographed! :-)

I swear, it is much easier to stand behind the camera than in front of it!

We are back soon with photos from the newlly-wedds plus the article of the magasine. Stay tuned ... :-

(in the picture above the happy couple with the magazine's photographer in action)

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Stockholm's University 2009 doctoral awards in Stadshuset.

In the end of September it was time for the yearly ceremony of Stockholms University to award the new doktors in a magnificent ceremony in Stadshuset, in Stockholm.

During the ceremony the "pedagogiska priset" was also awarded.

After the ceremony at the "blå hallen" the dinner was offered at the "gyllene salen".

The serving of the desert was as always spectacular and after the dinner followed dance until early in the morning.

If you wish to see some photos from the same ceremony from previous years click here and here.

You can visit the galleries with ALL the pictures from this year's ceremony by clicking here.

tags: fotograf, Stockholm, Stockholms Universitet, Stadshuset, doktorspromotion, hedersdoktorer, Orasis foto, evenemangsfotografering, event photography, φωτογράφος, φωτογραφιση τελετης, απονομη διδακτορικων