It was a great opportunity to see Nafplion again, one of my favorite places in Greece and meet my other friends and colleagues that were also invited.
Yiannis Alefantou, George Pahountis, Thanasis Kaiafas, Christos Contsaloudis, but also Takis Athanasopoulos and Manos Mandilaras that I met there for the first time.
I spent there only two days but they were two very fun and joyful days and we all had a really great time.
Just what I needed to start the season.
Thank you guys for the great experience. I wish we can do something similar again.

Along with the kid’s father we were seven photographers and only one Videographer so I decided to shoot more video and less stills to even it out so I ended up with a fusion style video with both motion and stills.

Enjoy!

Vasilios Christening in Nafplion from Spiros Zaharakis on Vimeo.

It’s a project about free educational seminars in 13 Greek cities, with 13 different themes. 13 students participate in each one of them and the project is sponsored by OPAP (hence the number 13 on the project).

In the end of the seminar they asked them for a group picture of all 13 participants. But it couldn’t be just any picture, it should be a themed picture with a theme of their choice.

Now lefki organizes every year, seminars for enthusiast photographers and some of the members including my self  offer their knowledge for free in a 3 months photography course. This year we broke every record with more than 100 students attending.

It was in our first day when the seminars started that we were all together at Asotos Yios where our seminars take place, and some of the panopticon seminar participants were there too, talking about that group photo they had to take and at that point one of them, Spiros Zervoudakis looked at me, turned back to the other guys he was talking with and said: “I have a great idea…”, “we will do a wedding photo, Spiros will do it for us”.

For some reason some people when they look at me they think of weddings , I wonder why.

I had no idea what they were talking about but I joined the conversation out of curiosity.

When I heard what it was about I was overly excited. I agreed to do it straight away and since it had to be done within just a couple of days I had to act really quick.

I was in charge to prepare the photo shoot of 13 of my friends with “Wedding” as a theme. Well I was not going to do this in the conventional way. Thank god everyone was just as crazy as the idea was and we ended up with some of the funniest wedding group pictures ever. Everyone of them had to get dressed something odd for a wedding. This was going to be fun.

The organizers at Panopticon had a blast when they saw them. I believe it’s going to be hard for them to forget about those crazy Cretans.

The first one was selected to be used and the second was a runner up

Enjoy…

The “Royal” Wedding

The “Mexican” wedding

This past year I came in a position that I had to choose between running my blog and having a life… and I chose the later.

Everyone was moaning that I was not posting but for me it was a deliberate decision.

Now that the season is over for me and my last wedding for 2011 was 10 days ago, I can now take a breath and try to catch up.

I will start with my last wedding and go backwards, I was lucky enough this season to have shot some really interesting gigs and hopefully I will get to find the time to post about all of them.

Actually I was supposed to start posting today but my plans changed a bit because my cute little daughter wanted us to go to the public garden and play.
She is so good at convincing me to do what she wants…

Cheers

Hopefully there are going to be more to come soon

Our GetToGether meeting in Santorini was an amazing experience.

Expect some images to be posted soon as well as a small review of the amazing new Sigma 85 f1.4 .

The only available piece of this fantastic lens in Greece was kindly offered for a review by our Sponsor Galaios Photo.

Well it looks like i cannot post in Greek just yet, so excuse me for not using my mother language.

I have no idea how this thing works but I will try to be brave and do it.

The idea is to post here my most recent work and maybe in the future some articles as well.

However most of my posts will likely be in Greek. It’s my mother language after all!