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From: "Powell Hargrave"
Subject: Re: Skills - was Re: Sent My Brother to the Dark Side
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Although I did come to very much dislike weddings in general. Some are
great. Many are inhabited but up-tight pushy people and inter/intra
family
clan wars.
One of the last weddings I shot, and it was one of the reasons I retired
from shooting them, was one with a lot of acrimony between the now divorced
parents of the bride, and pretty much everyone else in the party.
Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong went wrong that day.
Everything ran late, the parents were acting worse than the flower girl and
ring bearer, and they were non too happy either. The maid of honour was a
complete bitch, the bride was an emotional train wreck, the guys didn't want
anything to do with it and were intent on getting quite roaring drunk, and
one of the bridesmaids was drunk from the get go.
Personally, I don't blame the wedding party at all for the boozing, I would
probably have done the same, given the circumstances.
Anyway, to top it off, when the bride had chosen her outdoor location, she
had neglected to take into consideration that she was going to be wearing
about twenty pounds of dress on an August afternoon (it turned out to be
really hot and muggy), and that the creek that was beside the shoot would be
a mosquito bog by that point in the year.
It was an experience that, were I faced with it again, would run from,
screaming like a girl.
The shots done with the 6x7 actually showed clouds of mosquitos buzzing
around the wedding party, and I probably got bit about a hundred and fifty
times.
William Robb
