The experiencing of making that makeshift dark room must’ve been very interesting for him! Translated…
After he’d graduated from high school, he was already, the photography news reporter for a paper, so, he’d needed to go to the night department of the university to study, he’d told me, proudly.
His love for photography, perhaps, it was an influence his father had on him, because his father always placed his camera, where he could reach, and he’d, taken his father’s camera to play with, to take shots, and slowly, he’d, started enjoy using the views, to observe his own surrounding environments.
But, it’s, quite costly, taking up photography, but in his schooling years, he’d started, learning how to break even. As he’d recalled those funny moments, I saw his lips, curled upward. Back then, the headshots weren’t at all cheap, he’d started, shooting his college classmates, or to take shots of the headshots that were, already, taken, if the outside charges fifty cents per shot, he’d, charged thirty, enough to break even for the costs of his films.
If I’d continued to inquire about his work experiences, it would last, for over a whole day, and so, I’d, swallowed back my questions for him, and instead, asked him what his most impressive time of photograph was? He said that once he’d gone to the U.S. to photograph the baseball games played by a Taiwanese team, he bumped into the language barrier, but the next day, the news story was due out, he’d needed to, develop the films. And so, a group of them, photojournalists went to the restrooms, borrowed a few black or dark gray cloths from the ballpark, and wrapped the bathrooms so there would be no light, and started, developing their films, in the temporary dark room, made from the public restrooms.
I’d felt it was crazy, he’d told me, there were, too stressed, going nuts. But, the process of what they did, were only films that were, developed, inside their minds.
And so, the most memorable moments, weren’t the photos this man took of the baseball team playing in U.S., but what the photographers had to do, make a makeshift, temporary darkroom on their own, and this just showed, that most of the precious memories, you can’t capture it on film, you can only, capture it in your minds!
Life, the Obstacle Course 