Photography

We love taking pictures. When I say, "We," I probably actually mean, "Me". Trish loves taking pictures but she also doesn't mind being in pictures. I really try to take the photos so that I don't have to be in them. I tell people all the time that I have three days in my whole life that I looked "good". That, however, is a different story.

Photography is a wonderful hobby, and a decent way to make a living for some folks. In this age of digital photography, we lose sight of the fact that film used to have to be developed. And, when you went to the photo center to pick up your prints, you received the negatives.From these negatives, the positive image could be produced.

Today's word is an anonymous quote about photography and life, which says, "Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives."

Life is a really vibrant, colorful, radiant picture, but there are those dark and less colorful times, the negatives.
While life is going good and everything is coming up roses, we don't do a lot of developing, we just keep walking around being "pretty". However, if we don't develop along the way, we began to fade and yellow and show signs of deterioration. When this happens we need to produce a new positive. And, the only way to produce a new positive is to use the negative. It is from the negative that we develop.

We have to go through some of the negative stuff in order to develop the new us. It is never easy. It is absolutely no fun. It, sometimes, seems that it is not worth the effort. It is painful and depressing. But, it is only from the negative that we produce a better positive product. Let's use our negatives to develop something positive. I think we would all be surprised at the results.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T