Language of pictures. Bringing joy.

I normally dislike doing wedding videos. To me, there are quite the same. Been to one, been to all. Almost.

Doing it was ok. Kinda went along shooting etc. But when I played back to capture into the hard drive, the Korean entourage of the bridegroom crowded around. They laughed, smiled, made comments which were entirely foreign. The language of pictures. Audio, written language we may not know. But pictures transcend. And at that moment, we connected. Through the language of pictures.

Sometimes videoing stuff gets tiring. And wedding videos usually bore me utterly. But what really gave me a lift was the joy and laughter that was evoked watching the edit. Its quite amazing when you think about it. Cute jazzy music, a sequence of pictures of familliar faces, early happenings and actions by the people - na arrangement of it brings reactions. Interesting, huh? And more so, reactions from people I love - the bride, my friends, grandma, mother of the bride (all whom I know for over 10 years) and even the Korean family!

I was like WOW. Happy I could bring laughter and joy to a wide group of people, just for that few minutes. What a wonderful 'power' I have! Its such a wonder to just be able to put that smile on someone's face. I'm happy. And contented.

Thank you God for this gift.