Hello, teacher!

A few days ago I went to attend the lecture "Alaska Scenery Works Sharing Seminar" by Mr. Zhao Jie. At first I was hesitant about whether to go, but then I decided to go, otherwise I would have missed such a wonderful visual feast. .

(To whet your appetite first: Polar Gate, the second least visited national park in the United States, has huge glaciers and spectacular landforms. Unfortunately, there is still no road, so small planes can only reach it. You can’t walk very far in the wild.)

The location is on the second floor of Nanfang Chao Camera, which is the Yuantong Computer City near my alma mater. From north to south, I decided to take the bus and it was completely different to drive. To the fireworks surrounding my alma mater. I deliberately chose the most memorable route, got off at Yieryi Street Minyuan Road Station, walked along the sidewalk outside Dongyiyuan, about two to three hundred meters, turned a corner and entered Yuantong North Road, and there I was.

Teacher Zhao also came not long after I sat down. After a brief preparation, I began to share the wonderful sharing that left me wanting more and more enjoyable. In fact, before the National Day, Mr. Zhao had already posted in Moments one after another the blockbusters he shot in Alaska during the summer. Although he carefully admired each photo, through the screen, he was always indifferent, indifferent, and did not have much feeling.

As a photographer contracted by Sony and the main photographer of the top ten ocean paradise shooting projects, Mr. Zhao’s trip is mainly to teach at the University of Alaska. Since he is here, he will simply stay for a few days and just have the opportunity to take pictures of the local area. cultural scenery. Teacher Zhao pointed out at the beginning that the biggest reason why we usually see less pictures of Alaska’s scenery is that Alaska is vast and sparsely populated. Only 3% of the area is accessible by highways, and the remaining 97% is only accessible by road. Can be reached by plane. In other words, airplanes are the main means of transportation here, and 60% of the locals have pilot licenses. During one flight, Teacher Zhao was traveling with a family of eight people, six of whom had driver's licenses (local planes are small planes that can only seat a few people, and were manufactured in the 1950s and 1960s). Secondly, Alaska is located in the Arctic Circle and is covered with ice and snow all year round. It is extremely difficult and dangerous to get there.

This is the commonly used means of transportation in the local area.

One of the journeys was to take pictures of the Arctic ice cap. It is no longer possible for civilian aircraft to reach it. Do you know how Teacher Zhao got there? He studied the flights at various connecting points, and found a Coast Guard patrol aircraft to take him there on the last stretch. This saves a lot of time compared to taking a cruise from Greenland, and it allows him to take three-dimensional shots of the magnificence of the Arctic ice cap. The teacher told a detail. The flying Coast Guard member asked him to put on a life jacket on the plane so that he would have a chance if he fell. But after he put it on, the member said that it was of no use because it was just the two of them. , no one came to save me if I really fell, which made us burst into laughter...

A photo of Teacher Zhao with the Coast Guard members and their aircraft

The thickness reached 900 It is difficult to find a reference object for the huge ice layer of 3 meters. It is difficult to see the size when taking a panoramic view, and it is impossible to take a complete picture when taking a close range.

There are so many vivid details, but the one that touched me the most was the scene of salmon swimming upstream captured by Teacher Zhao. Otherwise, I was lucky, with the right time, place and people, I would have missed it in July and August in previous years. , but this year the salmon returned late, which happened to happen to Teacher Zhao. The magnificent scene of more than five million salmon swimming upstream, not only the excitement of millions of green fish bodies dyeing the clear river water green, but also the joy of sea lions and seagulls effortlessly pounce on salmon, is vivid and vivid under the teacher's lens On paper! The teacher also paid the license tax, which was $20 per person, and he caught two. Why two? Because according to local law, each person can catch up to three at a time. If you exceed it, you will be severely fined. This is why wild Alaskan salmon sells for sky-high prices.

Just when we were immersed in such a wonderful picture, I clearly remembered that when I was watching the pre-class video on performance improvement last year, Teacher Yi Hong, chairman of the China Performance Improvement Association, told us a case - the High School Affiliated to the Renmin University of China How to improve students’ college entrance examination essay scores. The ending with the theme of "love" and different scores are written like this, with a full score of 50 points -

An ending of 35-40 points: Only with love in the world can life be more fulfilling and meaningful. To be valuable, we should be caring people, not only valuable to society, but also make our lives more colorful!

Ending of 40-45 minutes: With love, life has endless value; with love, life has infinite meaning; with love, the world will be more colorful!

The ending of the full score essay is as follows: If you know love, watching the salmon go upstream in the rapids will give you a sense of fighting against fate; if you know love, watching the eagle soar in the blue sky against the wind will give you a sense of ambition. When Lingyun is heroic and understands love, even if he encounters mountain flowers blooming heartily on the side of an isolated ridge, he will touch the rhythm of life.

Of course I am not here to talk about how to write college entrance examination essays, but before studying this example last year, I had no idea about the great natural phenomenon of salmon swimming upstream in order to spawn, and in the end only one tenth of them survived. No wonder Teacher Yi also said that if you don’t know that it is impossible to write such a profound ending just by relying on imagination, then most people will not be able to go to the scene to experience it. The key lies in the accumulation of a lot of reading. This sentence startled me in the dream at that time, and I suddenly felt ashamed. Behind my ignorance was the accumulation of thousands of books.

The lecture lasted for two hours, and there were many stories hidden in Teacher Zhao’s wonderful photos. It was only because the time was too short that when I got out, I felt hungry and my brain was starved of oxygen. My previous decision not to drive showed its benefits, and I turned along Yuantong North Road to Yuanxi Road, which I cherished so much - I had been going back and forth between the campus and the dormitory for four years. Most snack bars on Yuanxi Road have changed hands after more than ten years, but this restaurant in Tengchong Guangxi has persisted. I strolled in and had a plate of risotto and a roasted pig's trotter. After finishing it, I was still hungry. It doesn't have the same fragrance as before, but the price is five times what it was back then. After going out to buy some more snacks, I finally came to my senses, walked along the north road, and found another landmark that had not changed - Yuantong International Cinema. Is it true that no matter how the times change, the way people see the world and communicate with each other through movies has never changed? ! Oh, in fact, the movie theater only has a few floors, but the name "International" is very loud. It seems that it is not unreasonable to still exist for many years...

Take Yuanxi Road, Yiwei Have a taste of the old days, and then you can return to Donglu Garden. Usually, let alone going back to my alma mater, I don’t even have time to go to the supermarket. I can handle everything big and small with just a few clicks on my mobile phone, so it’s nice to go to the campus in a leisurely mood. Maybe having a relaxed mood will lead to good luck. Until I bumped into a university teacher I hadn’t seen since graduation on Ginkgo Avenue, I still couldn’t get over this magical moment. The meeting was sudden, and everything else was in a hurry. The teacher was busy, so he just exchanged a few words. The contact information was added later, but I still remember the scene when the teacher taught us, and I will never forget the phrase "The buck stops here"!

Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles, and traveling thousands of miles is not as good as having good teachers and friends. There are a large number of unimaginable areas that we don’t know. Reading thousands of books can help us greatly expand our horizons and enrich ourselves, but there is also a saying, "What you read on paper will eventually feel shallow." As Teacher Zhao shared, after all, there are only a few people like him who have the opportunity to take photos of polar icebergs, salmon flows, and brown bears playing at the same time... There are many masterpieces and magical journeys, but we can still stand on the shoulders of giants. Appreciate the majestic beauty of nature, gain insights and understandings accumulated from every moment of life, and taste the beauty and warmth given by time. Those moments of emotion are memories that we can cherish forever...

Attachment: The beautiful scenery of Alaska

Note: The pictures taken by Teacher Zhao attached to the article have been authorized by him.

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