it has been 1 year approximately since I stumbled upon this nice place. I never found the time to make my introductory post as I had a little more to say than a "hello" and thank everyone making it such a nice place to come back every day.
So who am I:
My name is George Natis and I live in Germany near the well known city Frankfurt/Main. My origin is greek and I grew up here. Meanwhile I am 33 years old and happily married.
At the time being I earn my living by making proposals for a german telephone company.
Being creative was always something which has been there in my inner soul since I was a little kid. In the recent years I was trying to take a step into producing dancemusic which I abandoned in 2004 when I discovered my love for photography.
2006 was the year when I had to shoot my brotherīs wedding. As a first time shooter I wanted to do everything correctly. Researching all the places about shooting weddings I got redirected to this forum from a post on fredmiranda where a discussion about before/after pictures was going on. Immediately I got "stuck" in here as there were so many interesting discussions to read and absolutely stunning pictures to watch. I have to mention that it took me a while to understand that I was watching OSPs archives at this point of stage
I did the wedding and it went ok (my brother still talks to me *g* ), but since then I knew this type of photopgraphy is what I want to do in the future also growing up a business and maybe make a living out of it one day.
Capturing those sweetest moments and the feelings throughout a day was so nice and enriching that I could not think of anything else as I am a very sensitive emotional person. It did not happen only once that I cried tears during the ceremony
Through referrals from my co-workers and friends I booked 4 more weddings doing 2 of them completely on my own. Without OSP it would have been impossible for me to have them professionally handled. Yet still with my growing knowledge and practice I enjoy every future wedding even more.
OSP changed my live in terms of music taste. I never listened to Nicole Nordemann or Frou Frou ..etc
Also I got know how to handle my worfklow,post processing and general business because of all YOU nice people. The only thing which annoys me is that I cannot participate in any outstanding workshop which takes place here and there in your country (distance&money). I feel like Germany in general is still way behind in terms of wedding photography. The few well advanced photogs unfortunately do not offer any workshops.
Ok before I sound like an actor at the oscar awards, at last I would like to say a special thank you to my biggest inspirations DJ, Becker, Jessica Claire, Amorphia, Boutwells, Tricoast and Garret Nudd and and ....uh so many that I might have forgotten the one or the other.
Follow up I post my best of pictures since I started in 2006:
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Thank you all for taking the time to read my big hello
Best wishes,
George
