It ain't no hobby!
Anyway, this weekend was supposed to be the busiest weekend of the year for me. I was triple booked! Let's do this thang!
From Thursday of last week until Wednesday of this week, I was out of town meeting my boyfriend's family for the first time ever! I missed a Dave Matthews Band concert to do it, so it really meant a lot to me. It was great! I couldn't be happier, and I am so thrilled at the idea of spending the rest of my life with this man that I love and being a part of his wonderful family!
While some of my friends asked if I came back with an engagement ring (alas, I did not), I did not come back empty handed! I have what the doctors are calling "Big Hot Potato Boys". My tonsils are swollen to the size of quarters and covered in blood and puss!
Yay.
As you can imagine, I can't talk, and I spit up blood regularly. Blood is all I taste, it's all I smell. I could NEVER be a vampire. I hate the taste of blood.
You'd be surprised to know just how much a photographer uses their voice at a wedding. I stay very quiet, very "fly on the wall", but during the portraits I am the loudest person in the county! (Think about on Thanksgiving when you have to organize your entire family, immediate and extended, into seats and distribute food- now add alcohol to the mix and imagine getting everyone together for a respectable photo- are you cringing yet?)
If you are married and you thought your photographer was bossy and loud during portraits, I bet you loved your photos, if they were mellow and quiet, I bet your photos left something to be desired. Am I right or am I right?
So I was taken off yesterday's and today's weddings, which kinda sucks because I really do love what I do. I miss it. I love looking into the camera and smiling at what I see.
Photography is the most rewarding and humbling profession in the world. And if it were easy, everyone would do it. But it's like singing, some people just have a calling for it, a knack. I like to think I have that calling, that knack.
For now, I have a knack for not speaking. To be perfectly blunt, it sucks, and I miss my voice. What I miss most is not being able to tell my boyfriend that I love him.
I doubt I have any readers, but just in case I do, please pray for me.
Thanks :)
-N
