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March 1, 2023

Chapel Hill wedding photo in the vines close to sunset

Chapel Hill is a magical place for a wedding, and Alicia and Jeremy are a couple of magical people with a hilarious set of siblings that made for an extraordinarily enjoyable day for everyone involved. They dodged a 40 degree bullet by about 24 hours and were blessed with mid to high 20s and perfect […]

January 30, 2023

Bride and groom at White Hills Estate for their wedding

Tell me about your The Beginning! We met on internet dating and after lots of chatting, Brett finally asked me out. We went to the local pub for dinner and both knew there was something special there after the first date. When and where did you get engaged? We were engaged on 11 October 2020 […]

October 21, 2022

Irina and Jason managed to pull off an incredible, intimate wedding with just a few short months of planning time, but you’d never know it. White Hill Estate was the perfect canvas for their reception masterpiece, a single long table illuminated by overhead festoon light, it created an incredibly intimate atmosphere for around 40 of […]

September 26, 2022

Rustic ruins at Paxton winery wedding

After their first attempt at getting married earlier this year was scuttled by a covid case at the hens party and subsequent close contract restrictions (they feel like a lifetime ago!), Imogen and Cooper finally made it happen on the weekend. With the weather gods smiling, and the winemaking gods from Paxton weaving their magic […]

December 20, 2019

Sometimes everything comes together just right. The venue (Brooklyn Farm is next level awesome), the weather, the couple, the guests and all the other little things just fall into place. I’m sure Sasha and Brett (but mostly Sasha!) would have a slightly different take on in, with all the planning, organising, rushing around and ensuring […]

December 12, 2019

When I first met Nicole and Cam they told me how much they loved sunsets. I mean, everyone loves sunsets, but these guys LOVE sunsets and it was important to them to get some sweet shots of the sun saying goodnight to their wedding. Honestly, I was a bit like “well, a fair bit of […]

July 6, 2017

For whatever reason, it hardly ever rains at the wrong time on a wedding day. Maybe it’s because 95% of my weddings are in the driest state of the driest continent on earth, actually, that’s almost certainly the reason, but even when rain is forecast it always seems to dodge my weddings when it needs to. […]

March 30, 2017

Brooklyn Farm wedding, Simon Bills, Adelaide wedding phtotographer, the boys are back, rustic SA wedding

  It’s not every day you get to shoot a wedding on a movie set, but that’s exactly what Brooklyn Farm brings to the table. Roughly 10 years ago Scott Hicks (best known as the director and screenwriter of the Oscar-winning Shine) made a movie starring Hollywood heartthrob Clive Owen in little old South Australia […]

August 31, 2015

SC Pannell Winery wedding, Maclaren vale wedding photography

We started the day, like all good weddings should, with a game of beach cricket and a swim in the ocean. The problem was it was super windy and actually pretty chilly, a lot colder than we were expecting when we put the schedule together. Fortunately Tim and his men were up for anything and […]

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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