He
takes photos for not only the beauty but also the painfulness in Taiwan. After
the Typhoon Morakot, he felt Taiwanese people are unfamiliar with our land so
that we don’t care about it, so he wants to try to affect everyone by shooting the
most ordinary but real images. Among them, I like the photo of corrugated roofs
most because I can feel our toughness deeply by this close photo. I think we can
get many inspirations through his work, and he is really a respectable person. That’s
why I want to introduce the intellectual to you. J
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
An Outstanding Aerial Photographer
Yesterday,
I attended a lecture held by one oh my classes, which invites intellectuals in
many fields once a month. This time, the lecturer was 齊柏林, a famous Taiwanese aerial photographer. We were asked to search
for his information and read his books in advance, so we were all looking
forwards to his coming. He originally was a civil servant because his father
did the same job. He worked for more than thirty years. However, just when everyone
envied that he could retire in two more years, he quit. The reason was that he
wants to record Taiwan in detail to fulfill his dream. He wasn’t willing to
wait for two more years because he wouldn’t have enough energy and courage to
do it at that time, when he is fifty years old. To wake up people’s attention and
love to our country, he did such a surprising decision, and even mortgaged his
house to pay the expensive expense. He must pay fifteen thousand dollars every
time he takes the helicopter. When we see that his son asked him if he saved
sufficient money for the college tuition in the movie, we couldn’t help but
cry. In spite of all difficulties, he is still stick to his dream now. That touches
me a lot.
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I searched for his blog after your introduction, and was also impressed with what he has done. I confess that I’m the one who is not so familiar with Taiwan. Not until Typhoon Morakot did I knew 小林村,which alerted me that to love our homeland, the first thing to do is understand her! Therefore, I appreciate those who discover the beauty of some remote areas and share those “Xanadu”(s) with us. I hope that through this way, more and more people will cherish the uniqueness of Taiwan rather than considering the grass is greener on the other side!
ReplyDeleteI also attended his speech last Monday as well. It’s such a coincidence that we take the same English course when we have known each other far before joining this blog project. :-) Just like齊柏林, I have a dream which have not things to do with my major—to run an izakaya(居酒屋). And I have always been thinking how and when I should go for it. However,齊柏林’s passion for aerial photographing really touched me. Now, I have decided that once I saved enough money for my studies on izakaya dishes cooking and management, I will start to reach my dream without any hesitation.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your sharing about 齊柏林. I seemed to hear about this person before, but not really know him. After your introduction in detail, I am touched deeply by what he did. By the same time, I also appreciate his courage and perseverance, which are what I am lack of. I once had many dreams, but finally gave them up because of considering too much.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, if we can love our country as much as he, how wonderful Taiwan will become. In my mind, I am proud of being a Taiwanese and love this land. Taiwan has a beautiful name called Formosa, so it is everyone’s duty to protect it from being devastated.
Guys, it all about sacrifices, and the different about dream and idea, dreams are those never or danm hard to come true, ideas are those dream adjust by the reality, many adult may say the youngers must have dreams, but strangely whom slap we down to the real world from dream also are those adult, you must know what he sacrifice for that letting his dream coming true. And think about the transaction you can accept or not!
ReplyDeleteI would say those are decent pictures yet with deep sorrows. Yes, they do have couples of blissful shots, and those "good-old-days'". But what hurts is that I(We) agonize over those who suffered in the photos. Things that we haven't and probably wouldn't have been through- ruthless wars, gas houses, massacres...name a few. They are making stories whereas we read them with awe and having spiritual growth.
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