Wildflower's inner world is rich, subtle, mysterious, believe it or not? I believe.
The year before, together with Qi Kaizhang, a photographer who loves to photograph wildflowers, they started from the Minhe Tingting Gorge, the lowest altitude in Qinghai, and walked all the way to the Chahan River, where the rhododendrons bloomed, at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters.
Longshu Cuckoo
Safflower leaf green velvet artemisia
In those happy days, I often stared intently at a broad bean-sized gentian tree in the grass, deeply moved by its indescribable blue and its weak and tenacious vitality. I noticed that the delicate and soft texture of the petals of the gentian, like the lines of my palm, heralded the rings and directions of life, and when faced with the sun, the shyness looked like a newly married bride. Sometimes, I would stand on a high mountain beam and open my dream-like pupils for a wisp of Qin's leaf veins, a golden dandelion, and a red artemisia ma xian. And every time, as Kaizhang crawled to the ground with his heavy Canon camera, holding his breath, aiming at the branches, stems, and hearts of the wildflowers, and gently pressing the shutter, my heart would still rise and fall with the breeze. I can't calm down, I can't stare at the strange flowers in front of me with my camera without thinking about anything, I am always wondering, always wondering: Why are these flowers so beautiful? Why is it so desperate and reckless to open up on a plateau without oxygen? In fact, when Kaizhang's camera makes every graceful figure that blooms on the green grass, by the small river, under the pear tree, and even in the crevices of the rough rocks, forever frozen in one stunning picture after another, my eyes are full of envy.
Fully margined leafy artemisia annua
Wolf poison
Green ripples and flowers are colorful. When photographing wildflowers, we must enter the inner world of wildflowers, and we must fully understand and understand the emotions of wildflowers.
Over the years, Kaizhang has endured the torment of fate, and enjoyed the joy of the fertile thick soil layer in eastern Qinghai being cut by the plough. The experience of life, the flame of the deep desire to sprint in the depths of his soul, burned his body and mind, and also cast his flesh and bones, so that he had a pure heart that loved nature and protected nature.
I have admired many of his photographs of wildflowers, and the images of these beautiful lives in his camera are quiet, quiet like a paradise, so quiet that the viewer forgets that there is still a mixed world. At the same time, it was so noble, with a faint hint of sadness, as proud as a princess, as mysterious as a queen.
Photography is a light and shadow technique, but for any art, the most important connotation is still emotion, a reflection of the mind built on life. Years of photography practice, so that Kaizhang is well aware of the habits of wildflowers, the name of wildflowers, the origin of wildflowers; he knows when each flower blooms, in what state to avoid people's noise; he knows that each flower is a story, a line of poetry; he uses a large aperture to highlight the look of wildflowers, uses a small aperture to explain the environment in which wildflowers live, and highlights the dignity of wildflowers with a comfortable and comfortable golden point.
Artemisia moss
He has been learning, as far as possible to capture the dynamics and emotions of wildflowers, in the wonderful process, and wildflowers to establish a love of acquaintance and encounter, like a rose to convey love, like a golden sunflower to express selflessness, no selfless distractions, only to show the beauty of the wildflowers themselves.
What is there in this world that is more beautiful than pure, more holy than pure? He is using photography to tell every friend who rushes by: there are all kinds of flowers blooming on the wasteland, it is the companion of life, and if people can't see wildflowers in this life, have no time to look back and linger, or turn a blind eye to the scenery, what a pity.
He believes that the wildflowers are the masters of the land, the veil of the mountains, the people of the sun, and photography is like the reflection of the wildflowers and the water, both intimate and maintaining a distance.
He believes that nature is the life of the earth, the life of human beings, and reverence for nature and love of life are the minimum conscience of human beings.
He believes that it is a happy thing to choose to use photography to pour out his love for wildflowers, and to use the camera in his hand to explore and warm the heart of each wildflower. Ever since he received this honor, he could never give up.
Peach Seven
Large flower orchid
As a result, the gentian, green velvet artemisia, spring flowers, and silk grass in his lens have not only become artistic masterpieces that are pleasing to the eye and produce endless associations, but also in the process of aesthetically looking at nature, they have found a creative form suitable for expressing their own thoughts, expanding their own life paths, moving themselves, and at the same time being able to move others.
The artistry of photographic works cannot be simply measured by technology and data, but depends on whether the photographer's emotions and experiences are conveyed.
Tibetan gentian
The process of insisting on shooting for many years was arduous, but Kai Zhangle was in it - not only sublimated the characteristics of the wildflower and his own temperament, but also gave the wildflower a new life. Using the wildflower as a symbol, we concretize our minds and seek truth, goodness, and beauty in them.
This is the ideal state that can be achieved in the contact between man and nature, photography, literature, or more or less, are devoted to the interpretation of colorful and magnificent life, or pleasure, or harmony, or sorrow...
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Text/Sims
Published on June 30, 2017, Qinghai Daily, page 12
Editor-in-Charge/Wei Huimin
Producer/Liu Rongyan Director/Han Yihua
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