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SIMON BILLS BLOG

AN ADELAIDE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

August 24, 2015

Mt lofty house wedding photography, adelaide hills bride

I’ve always had jobs that have taken me all over town. In the 90s while I was at uni I worked for a catering company and we would travel to homes and businesses and sporting clubs and girl guide jamborees and all sorts of places and serve the most delicious roast meat and french onion […]

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August 10, 2015

Wairoa wedding, adelaide hills, stirling wedding

When Lachie gave Breanna’s bridesmaid sister Fleur a high five as she finished walking down the aisle it told me almost everything I needed to know about these guys. When I saw Lachie’s face as he saw his soon to be wife for the first time that day that was everything. Such a natural, genuine, […]

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July 29, 2015

It can be a pretty lonely gig as a wedding photographer. Sure, the weddings themselves are ridiculously social and fun, but that’s only 30 or 40 days of the year. The rest of the time is spent behind a keyboard editing photos, designing albums, doing admin and resisting the urge to locate and watch all the cat […]

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July 27, 2015

Penny's hills wedding tree, mclaren vale wedding

A phrase that gets said at a lot of my meetings with couples is “we hate having our photo taken, one of us is always blinking, we’ve got like 2 nice photos of us”. I assume that these couples are sitting on my couch because they like my informal approach to wedding photography and the […]

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July 13, 2015

adelaide wedding, groomsmen adelaide cbs, urban wedding photography

It’s always good to see a few familiar faces on a wedding day, just a handful of people to make you feel like you’re already one of the gang. There were a few such faces at Quinnie and Eugene’s wedding so we were off to a great start. Firstly one of Eugene’s groomsmen was fellow […]

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June 29, 2015

grand cru estate wedding, barossa valley wedding

For some reason I’m fiercely patriotic when it comes to South Australia. I suspect it’s borne out of living overseas for so long and copping shit from other Aussie ex-pats when they found out I was from Adelaide (look who’s laughing now Eastern States!).

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June 15, 2015

nanna on the dance floor, mt lofty house wedding, fun adelaide wedding, quirky wedding photo

It’s true. I don’t always remember what a couple looks like between the time of our first meeting and our second meeting which is often 12 months later, particularly when our first meeting is done over Skype. Such was the case with Olivia and Francis. For many months those names were staring down at me from […]

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June 1, 2015

chateau tanunda wedding, barossa valley

One of my favourite things about living in the UK for 6 years was the fact they didn’t make much wine there (besides a few novelty vineyards). This meant that all their wine was imported so you could head down to your local supermarket and select from a huge variety of wines from all over […]

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May 13, 2015

Earlier this year I had the honour of documenting Carly and Shae’s wedding. Shae was a bridesmaid in another wedding I had photographed and Carly did some videography work in yet another wedding so I kind of knew them a little bit before their big day, but it wasn’t until their wedding that I really got to see […]

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April 3, 2015

Normally I write a few words about each wedding I put on the blog, in this case I’m going to let Narelle – the bride – do it for me! I will add that this was an amazing day, it was super fun to shoot and Steve has one of the biggest smiles I’ve ever seen.

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