What is it about a Wedding?

I was chatting with someone today about photography and other things when she remarked, "you are really passionate about wedding photography." That stopped me in my tracks! If you asked me, I would have said that I really like shooting weddings; it is the most fun you can have behind a camera, and I really enjoy it more than any other kind of photography I have ever been involved in! But I would never have thought of myself as "passionate". 

Oh, I have my passions... I am passionate about equity, and cruelty, and the treatment accorded to people coping with mental health and emotional problems, and drug dependencies. I get really wound up when I encounter corruption and the any kind of laziness or selfishness: and greed - and I am passionate about my faith and my wife and family.... especially my kids.

But photography is not feel like that. The intensity and the emotion is very different - photography is my joy, and my living, and my hobby, and my creative outlet and, to a degree, my identity.... maybe it does deserve to be called a passion, but it still doesn't feel like that. It is just something I love, that I am good at, and that lets me share my perspective and ideas. I suppose I would agree that it supports my passions, but now I am not so sure...

I think I will have to think it all through a bit more. In the meantime, I am getting ready to shoot Sean's and Rosemary's wedding at Campbelltown with just one good eye (Jean has just one good eye, too. My left eye is "fixed" and so is Jean's right eye). We are coping quite well with one lens removed from our glasses but we look pretty geeky! But it is still going to be FUN.