I’ve tried to get in off and on over the years even as a second. No dice there either or as a videographer.
Thank you for the kind words though.
Years ago through some small job farming website I picked up being a contributor for a lawn and garden person. Whoever it was wanted shots of nice yards and the like. He liked my work and paid X per photo. No great sum but it meant a lot to me. I was one of apparently several and all of the photos were on a website.
A couple months in I was contacted saying as much as my stuff was liked, other contributors complained I was too good. A few months later the operation folded.
I once considered wedding videography (which is harder than still in some respects). As practice, I shot a wedding for a friend.
One cool trick was to put a microphone/recorder on the bride and groom while they were at the receiving line. With Vegas, of course, I was able to sync and splice the audio into the video so that you could clearly hear the conversations between the bride and groom and all of the guests while the video played. Turned out very nicely.
Another thing that would be cool is to set up five microphones at strategic locations in the church. One near the bride and groom. Then record the audio combine it into 5.1 surround sound (in Vegas, of course). This would take a little skill and practice. The play back in a home theater might be pretty cool with the spacial sense of surround sound. Imagine clearly hearing the bride and groom and pastor/priest, the organ, etc. This all takes a lot of effort and time and the ROI might not be enough to justify it.