My partner Jo hired a small company to take pictures while all of us were in the Monday evening event for the museum.
The director of the museum had authorized me to spend $2,000 for the photographer… But since it was truly the final hour when all of us finally found someone as well as they wanted to charge far more currency than we had in the budget.
I didn’t have a choice, because the museum needed someone to take pics. I hired the guy to job from 2 in the morning until 11 p.m. in the evening. I wanted before & after shots. The photographer showed up about right before the time set for taking pictures. I was quite gleeful with his promptness as well as friendly attitude. The guy seemed as if he was ready to get started. My partner as well as I showed the photographer where he would be actually shooting as well as all of us left the guy alone to set up all of his cameras, lenses, as well as lights. Only minutes before the first guests were stressed to arrive, the photographer disappeared. Jo could not find the guy somewhere. Jo and I looked all over the property. When all of us finally found the guy, he was smoking pot outside of the rear entrance. I could odor marijuana in the air, although I didn’t say anything to the guy. I actually didn’t mind if he was smoking weed or not as long as it was not interfering with the job he was hired to complete. When the photographer started to disappear every so often to smoke cannabis, then I had a problem as well as I had to say something to the guy.