Santorini wedding photographer
As a Greek wedding and event photographer one of the places that I photograph at is of course Santorini. Santorini Photographs
Santorini is always considered to be as one of the top destinations worldwide for wedding photography, engagement photography, anniversary photography and wedding portraits photo session!
At the same time I am an accredited travel photographer, cooperating with image banks and magazines.
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As they say one photographs equals with one thousand words, so I will not say (write in this case) a lot.
There are some key points that have to be said about Santorini though.
It is indeed a unique island due to its geographic position due to nature’s miracles and due to humans incredible ability to adapt to the environment!
Mediterranean and Aegean sea provide the best light (and yes this has to do with photography and your wedding J
Nature did an amazing job although with a catastrophically effect at the same time, the Volcanic ground of Santorini and the volcano caldera provide an exceptional landscape!
The white houses, churches and other constructions with the blue rooftops and windows are a perfect matching color combination with Aegean colors! The particular Cycladic architecture is famous for its beauty but also for the perfect answer to the elements of sun and wind.
Being framed of the 3 S …. Sea, Sun, Summer combined by the above elements, is what makes Santorini unique and the aura that inspires people to travel from all the 4 corners of our round world in order to see, experience and get photographed at this island!
The more lucky ones might even get married here J
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Santorini (Greek: Σαντορίνη, pronounced [sandoˈrini]), classically Thera (English pronunciation /ˈθɪərə/), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα [ˈθira]), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece’s mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km2(28 sq mi) and a 2011 census population of 15,550. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana. The total land area is 90.623 km2 (34.990 sq mi). Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit.
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Santorini is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic eruption that destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island, and created the current geological caldera. A giant central, rectangular lagoon, which measures about 12 by 7 km (7.5 by 4.3 mi), is surrounded by 300 m (980 ft) high, steep cliffs on three sides.The main island slopes downward to the Aegean Sea. On the fourth side, the lagoon is separated from the sea by another much smaller island called Therasia; the lagoon is connected to the sea in two places, in the northwest and southwest. The depth of the caldera, at 400m, makes it impossible for any but the largest ships to anchor anywhere in the protected bay; there is also a fisherman’s harbour at Vlychada, on the southwestern coast. The island’s principal port is Athinios. The capital, Fira, clings to the top of the cliff looking down on the lagoon. The volcanic rocks present from the prior eruptions feature olivine, and have a small presence of hornblende.
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It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, though what remains today is chiefly a water-filled caldera. The volcanic arc is approximately 500 km (310 mi) long and 20 to 40 km (12 to 25 mi) wide. The region first became volcanically active around 3–4 million years ago, though volcanism on Thera began around 2 million years ago with the extrusion of dacitic lavas from vents around the Akrotiri.
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The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred some 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of metres deep. This may have led indirectly to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, 110 km (68 mi) to the south, through a gigantic tsunami. Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.
