This is the second of my 2-part blog post on my trip to Athens a couple of months back. This one features the photos from my photoshoot with Thanos and Katerina in Plaka in Athens. Thanos is one of the popular modern wedding photographers in Greece and it is quite an honor to be shooting him and his wife for a session that they have been wanting to do for a long time already.

What’s strange is that while someone like me who’s from the far end of Asia, the idea of having the shoot in famous and obvious Greece like the Parthenon in Acropolis will be epic, for them it’s very anticlimactic. It’s like me asking and paying someone to shoot me and wife in Intramuros – so enough said. They were nice enough to agree to shoot in Plaka which is old town Athens and really just connected to Acropolis. =)

So enjoy the photos and watch out for the rest of our Europe series =)

It has taken quite a while especially for those who were eagerly awaiting, but now that things are starting to get less crazier in the Metrophoto office, we’re finally bringing you the first of our Europe series late last year.

As we’ve detailed in our 2010 year-end post, Metrophoto’s first stop in Europe was in Greece. I know that we could have gotten a more ‘mainstream’ Europe like Paris or London but I guess there is something exotically strange and unique about us that even fate went along and brought us somewhere more eastern and more historic.

Talking about history, there is no question that Greece came first with almost everything that has to do with civilization (except probably hollywood) and you could just imagine how overwhelming it is to think about shooting there. Of course I eventually found out that it was impossible to shoot a session in Acropolis and other historical sites in Athens – much to my dismay, although I had quite a great time shooting in old town Athens which they call Plaka.

So allow me to give you a two-part post on Athens. On this one I’ll put up some interesting street scenes in Plaka, Monastiraki, and Acropolis and then immediately after, I’ll posting my shoot with Thanos and Katerina in Athens as well. So I’d say enjoy both these posts and then watch out for the rest of my Europe series – Santorini and Venice =)