This past summer, my friend’s sister wanted me to be the official photographer at her wedding. i don’t know a whole lot about photography, i just mess around and stumble on sometheing good, occasionally.
the bride (my friend’s sis) pulled me aside the morning of the wedding day and gave me a list of shots she needed. all general instructions. “take pictures of people – decorating the church, setting up the dinner tables, decorating the dinner tables, decorating the cake, hanging up the lights, also take pictures of the hair-do’s, the groom dressing, the best men, the family..”, the list gets bigger. so fished out my camera and began clicking away that morning.
i’ve learnt to look out for interesting shots in stuff that most people don’t think interesting. also, i knew that some of these usless pictures will be interesting to the couple much later. so all day i took pictures of the boring stuff hoping something cool would turn out.
then time came for the wedding. i took group shots of the family with the bride and groom, the bride with the kids, her maids, the bride with the groom’s men, the bride’s maids and the groom, the entire wedding gang. then i heard a beep i didn’t want to hear. the batteries went dead!
i had used all my spares. i was shocked. thewedding hadn’t even begun and i didn’t have batteries. i walked around frantic. this church was on the outsirts of a very small town. plus where could i find lithium batteries. i found another digital camera. it used normal batteries but it too was out of charged batteries.
a friend and i jumped in his car and raced to town to find some batteries before the wedding ended. couldn’t find one single battery. came back felling like a bum.
its easy to miss the important parts of life, the parts that really matter and get distracted and excited over absolutley useless stuff. ask yourself if your prior
Your story reminds me of one of my experiences. I’ve done the same thing in one of my friend’s wedding. I got so overwhelmed with the preliminaries, I wasn’t able to capture the important events. In my case, I ran out of memory. I appreciate the way, you were able to get a lesson out of that learning experience.