AN ADELAIDE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

Groom’s Mum via Facebook: “Hi Simon, Daniel’s mum from Friday’s wedding, thank u for the wonderful photo of my parents dancing, could’ve knocked me over with a feather seeing that, haven’t seen dad up like that in a very long time.” Me: “Hi Tracey, that was a pretty magical moment watching your parents dance, especially […]

When I received an email from Cassandra in mid 2015 it had the following line: “You were the photographer for a few friends weddings and we have been following your work since. We are from SA but are getting married in Sydney in 2016 (where we live now). We are having a low-key small party […]

I first encountered Jessica and Mitchell at the wedding of Jessica’s cousin Stuart many years ago. One of my enduring memories of that wedding was two guys executing the most perfect Gangnam Style dance I’d ever seen (I told you it was many years ago – truth be told I miss wedding dance floor Gangnam, […]

What’s a reasonable time frame to have your “best of X year” slideshow done by? It was never getting done by 31st December, that’s for sure, but I thought I’d be able to pull it together in early January.

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]