Hawaiian Wedding

Oh, the challenges of being a photographer in Maui! Aside from the big issues such as the high cost of living, cutthroat competition and idiotic government regulations, we have the merely irritating annoyances such as slim bikini clad babes cavorting in the surf right behind the wedding couple we're about to photograph, snotty little kids who can figure out the perfect place to stand so that you'll have to spend hours working the clone stamp in photoshop to remove them from your portraits and my personal pet peeve: "the entourage", outfitted with a plethora of cheap digital cameras and cell phones that take pictures. I actually have to elbow some of these clowns out of the way at virtually every wedding I shoot. I even had someone complain, while I was photographing a group, that he didn't get his shot because "this dude got in the way" (pointing disgustedly at me). The wedding couple is paying me a hefty fee specifically so that they don't get shots that look like the ones brother Jeb takes so why does Jeb even bother? 

If you're contemplating hiring a photographer, do yourself a favor and request that all the budding photographers in your group leave their overpriced cameras in the hotel room. And remind your guests that when the photographer is aiming his camera at them they should smile because those pictures are not for him, they are for you, so that you can remember a beautiful, once in a lifetime day.