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September 29, 2009

Friends, I’m on the lookout for a fun couple keen to head over to Paris for a photo shoot on Monday 19th October.

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September 20, 2009

Keen followers of my blog will remember Chona and Rich, a couple I met at J-Fo’s party many moons ago who were looking for a wedding photographer. Well, those many moons came and went, and yesterday Danny and I finally shot the wedding, and what a wedding it was.

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September 16, 2009

In typical simonbills.com fashion I’m breaking convention yet again, 2 blogs in 2 days if you don’t mind. Yep. So, this evening I spent a bit of time playing round in Lightroom setting up some presets to automate the export of photos in a blog friendly manner, I think this new way of presenting the […]

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September 15, 2009

What a weekend! Mum wins the US Open, Dad loses it (to a 20 year old kid no less), and sheep number 3 wins the annual Sheeplechase at the Pet Personality Awards in Regents Park. I really don’t know which result was the most surprising.

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September 6, 2009

Every once in a while, perhaps 12 months or so, I find myself enthusiastically agreeing to hit a London club in search of good times, carefree dancing and, well, more good times. And, like clockwork, each year I also find myself wondering why I thought it would be fun this time and why so many […]

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September 1, 2009

Wow, I’m up to 50 posts now in this blog, who knew it had legs? (actually, I think we all probably knew it did, I mean, it’s a socially acceptable way of being completely self indulgent which is right up my alley – especially when combined with photography!).

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August 24, 2009

While the rest of you working stiffs are toiling away at your 9 to 5s I’m onto my third Banks of the evening watching monkeys run across the golf course having spent the afternoon scuba diving. Life is tough in Barbados. Dinner is on the way (Andy’s whipping up his famous jerk chicken I think?) […]

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August 18, 2009

There was commotion by the door, I stopped mid-sentence and ran full speed towards her, along with more paps than I’d seen in my life. Our cameras were prepared hours ago, manual focus, exposure and flash were set and locked in with duck tape, all for this very moment, there would be no mistakes. She […]

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August 10, 2009

Seven year old in the Apple store “But mummy, I’ve been asking for one since I was six” Mum “Just because you’ve been asking for it doesn’t mean you’re entitled to it. I asked for a horse since I was six and didn’t get one till I was 40” Mother/son conversations like this are what […]

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August 3, 2009

Super Awesome™ (adjective) The act of being better than super and better than awesome; the highest compliment one can pay to an event or person; popularised by Dave Gerhard. Eg – that canal boating weekend was super awesome. And so it was, 12 of us had found our way to Rugby (the birthplace of rugby […]

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