Darkroom Wisdom

"Only in darkness can the Light shine thru the negative to develop a positive picture"



I never develop a picture in the darkroom, but I know that to develop a picture, you need to be in the darkroom. To take a photo, you take your negative, put it in the camera and shone it by light, not too much, not too little, just the right aperture and shutter speed.

Make sure you don't expose your negative, bring it back to the darkroom. Only in darkness you can develop a photo, not in lightroom. Exposing yourself to only light doesn't give you a picture, you need darkness.

To be compassion means not to over expose other people's sorrowfulness, it means you don't force light on other peoples to blind them with your light, it means you are willing to walk into the darkroom with the person, it's about lots of patience, lots of care to develop a photo together.

Life is not about light, it's about how you use your light in the darkness. With the right amount of light and willingness to go into darkness together, at the end, there will be a beautiful positive picture.