Stepped into the role of wedding videographer few times this summer. Amazing learning experience. Getting out of my comfort zone (I am only learning the differences between photography and videography) - that is obvious. What was not obvious was the change in my status. During my regular 8-10 hour job I enjoy an environment of mutual respect. But wedding videographer and other support staff have a different status, or so people would treat you at times. In one of the weddings nobody bothered to give food for myself and a photographer, although we followed the couple and their entourage for 12 hours non stop. Did not bother to seat us at the table - any table. What an awakening experience in humility.
I also designed a way for myself to judge people - I will judge them by the way they treat the ones below them, on whom they have authority (I am not the first one to make this call - but speaking now from the personal experience).
"Nothing Ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you until your life has illustrated it." - John Keats
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