Inspirational story

Introduction: There are many inspirational figures in our life that we need to learn. Therefore, we must not degenerate.

Inspirational story 1: the color life of color-blind photographers

In the world painting and calligraphy exhibition, there is a photo collection called "Discovery of the Sea" which is particularly eye-catching. The photos in the album are all taken at sea, and they are all moments of catching waves. When water and light are fixed in the lens, it shows the ultimate beauty of life. The beautiful picture amazed everyone, and what is even more admirable is that the photographer turned out to be a color blind patient.

Born in Australia, he likes to doodle everywhere since he was a child. When he was 3 years old, his father bought him a set of colored pencils, but the colors he painted always made his father feel strange. After a period of observation, my father found that his color discrimination was problematic, so he took him to the hospital for examination. Unexpectedly, he is color blind.

In his father's eyes, his world will become gloomy. Father put away the crayons and stopped discussing any topics related to color with him. Slowly, he began to escape from the colorful world, and his personality became very withdrawn. After graduation, he became a coal miner, which he felt was the most suitable job for him. Working in the dark underground all day, his life is colorless, only dark.

Once, he and his parents traveled by boat. When the sea breeze was blowing on the deck, he happened to see a young man his age surfing on the sea. Although the waves are rough, the young man is not afraid at all, but fights the waves for strength and beauty.

He was shocked, and his calm heart was deeply shocked. He never wants to take pictures. He subconsciously took out his mobile phone and took photos. Father saw his attentive expression and told him that he could actually surf the sea of life. His father's words set off ripples in his heart, and from that moment on, he liked photography.

After the trip, his heart was still full of excitement. He always wants to embrace the sea and feel the beating of the waves full of life. He bought a camera and took photos during the break. But this time, he didn't find a suitable position on the boat, and he was worried when he saw that the boat was about to dock. He doesn't want to lose the chance to make this film. After the ship landed, he jumped into the sea to meet the waves.

After swimming in the sea for more than four hours, his physical strength is about to run out, but every photo in the camera excites him. After landing, he looked through his photos and found that he could get out of the underground tunnel and live another life. He immediately called the boss and said that he couldn't work the night shift and would continue filming.

When he went back to work, he learned that he had been fired. He didn't feel sad at all, but devoted all his time to filming the sea. He chased every jump of the waves at sea and captured that beautiful moment. The magnificent ocean changed his fate and made him many like-minded friends. In the time spent with the sea day after day, he tried to find the best angle, got up after being thrown down by the waves, and even soaked himself in the cold sea water for a perfect photo, but it was his love of photography that made his shooting technology perfect day by day.

When he saw the news of the photo contest in the newspaper, he sent a photo of the beautiful waves in the sun that he had just fixed with the psychology of giving it a try. To his surprise, this photo won the first prize. He became famous in photography with his gorgeous turn. Time has passed, and now he has become an excellent photographer, and his photos have been published in a book. The name of this photo album is Discovery of the Ocean.

He is Australian color-blind photographer Ray Collins, a photographer who loves to shoot the sea and inject blue into life. A reporter asked Collins how he went from darkness to success. He said indifferently, "It's because those living waves have opened my once gloomy heart and immersed me in the ocean world, trying to follow the dancing waves and freeze the quiet beauty of water and light. In the process, I found that although I don't know where the waves will go in the next second, I know that fate can be changed and will always be in my own hands. "

Yes, no matter what kind of storms you encounter in your life, color-blind photographers can have a colorful life as long as they don't give in to their fate and persistently pursue their dreams.

Inspirational Story 2: China broke into Liang Zi, an African female photographer, and recorded the mysterious world 10 times.

In 20 12, he won the Best Outdoor Photographer Award of the 6th China Outdoor Annual Golden Rhino Award. She visited the mysterious land of Africa around 14 10 times. Her lens recorded the life of various black tribes. What are some interesting stories about her and Africa?

I went to Africa for the first time and stayed at Uncle Wang's house.

Liang Zi, born in Beijing in 196 1, joined the army in 1977 and became a female journalist in the military field. 1998, Jackie Chan's oil painting image of the protagonist in the movie Who am I suddenly inspired her to go to Africa.

In July 2000, Liang Zi resigned as the chief photographer of China Splendid Pictorial and broke into the kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa alone. When I arrived in Lesotho, I stayed at the home of the chief, who was the king's uncle. Liang Zixiao said that he entered the royal family by accident. At that time, there were many people around the chief's house. The local people have never seen China people or other foreigners before. The most frequently asked question is: "Where is China?" Liang Zi explained the location of China and Lesotho by showing the appearance of the earth.

Liang Zi said there was no clean drinking water, or even enough water. You can only pour some water into plastic bottles every day, and pour it down from your head, which is a shower. In a small jungle village where Liang Zi often goes to interview and take photos, people drink the mud in the pit. In order not to affect her work due to illness, she had to drink no water day by day. Not only because of the lack of water, but also because there is no toilet there, it is more painful and embarrassing to go to the toilet every time.

In this way, Liang Zi lived with the local people and soon became friends. She recorded their daily life with lenses and words: fishing, brewing, squeezing palm oil and making soap; Record how a woman kneels to give birth to a child, and how to hold another wedding with her husband to give birth after 8 years of marriage. ...

"You should find a boyfriend after staying here alone for so long." One day, the woman in the village said to Liang Zi, "Caibao is the most handsome man in the village, and he can speak English. How about him being your boyfriend? " The matchmaker came to the door. As soon as the young man came in, Liang Zi raised his voice and joked, "All right! According to your rules, do you send the dowry or the deposit first? "

Caibao took it seriously and kept looking at the matchmaker's face. Liang Zi is so serious that he feels in distress situation. Liang Zi told them that China is a monogamous country, and they were surprised. Later, Liang Zi and this black boy named Cai Bao became good friends. Cai Bao sometimes joked: "My family has 34 sheep, 5 cows and 3 horses. If you are willing to be my girlfriend, I will give you some. "

Africa is a high incidence area of AIDS. To Liang Zi's surprise, the local people in Tabam village do not shy away from AIDS patients. On the contrary, they respect those struggling souls. Liang Zi once recorded the whole process of the collapse of an AIDS patient, a female primary school teacher. From her illness to her death, people around her did not discriminate against her, and her family and neighbors came to help. Before her death, she said a lot to Liang Zi, and more than 65,438+0,000 people attended her funeral. Liang Zi saw the purest and most sincere feelings between people.

After living in the black tribe for more than four months, Liang Zi felt that he really became one of them. On the day of returning home, the chief opened the most distinguished red wine for her at the king's banquet, and the villagers sang a farewell song for her, which made Liang Zi burst into tears.

From 5 June to 10, 2000, Liang Zi published the book "Breaking into the Alpine Kingdom of Africa-A Documentary of a China Female Photographer Living in a Black Village". She lifted the veil of this small African country with her lens and her heart.

Listen to the Sierra Leonean President's thanks to the Government of China.

Only a few months after his return from Lesotho, Liang Zi made another decision that shocked his friends: to go to Sierra Leone in West Africa. The country is known as the "country of diamonds", and civil strife broke out for diamonds for 10 years.

In Bocheng, a small town in Sierra Leone, Liang Zi was introduced by the village chief to live in the home of a local hostess named Amy. Amy learned that a China woman was going to live in her house, and she had already tidied up the room. At that time, the temperature was as high as 40℃ and there was no electricity. Liang Zi said that he was stuffed in a mosquito net like steamed meat buns the night before, and he was sweating all over. When I woke up the next day, the mattress under me turned out to be a big sponge.

Sierra Leone is a diamond-producing area, where the film Blood Diamond was filmed. After personal experience, Liang Zi found that the images in film and television works are all fictitious, and Africa is extremely poor and extremely happy. This small mountain village is very poor. There are only two days in a week, and a generator generates electricity for two hours at a time. When there is no electricity, you can only use homemade candles. As for the diet, it is even more humble. Live crabs are boiled and eaten casually with water. Although material life is scarce, Liang Zi can always see people singing in the moonlight every night. Once, when I was walking home after taking a photo, several women from the village came to hold her hand: "You are so boring. Come, we will teach you to sing and dance. "

200 1, the protracted war is finally over. President Kabbah of Sierra Leone came to Bo, where Liang Zi lived, and held a meeting of ten thousand people to declare the end of the war. Liang Zi found that when President Kabbah mentioned his gratitude to China, many journalists around him noticed her. At this time, she discovered that among the tens of thousands of people in the audience, she was the only one from China; Among all journalists, she is the only woman, and her pride can't help but arise.

Record Africa with a lens and publicize Africa.

In July 2005, Liang Zi's third trip to Africa was to Eritrea, where it rained only twice a year. The annual precipitation there is only 20 mm, and there are endless deserts everywhere. When he arrived, Liang Zi was in the biggest trouble. He couldn't take pictures.

In the following days, Liang Zi began to get in touch with the villagers. Anyone who has a headache or fever will be sent some Chinese medicine, and the patient will recover soon after taking it. When the village chief was ill, Liang Zi also brought some to the village chief. Later, when there was no medicine, he simply used massage to relieve the patient's headache. The most interesting thing is that she bought a sheep from local residents at a high price and told the villagers that whoever asked Liang Zi to take a photo would get mutton. Later, the relationship between Liang Zi and the local people became better and better. After a month and a half, someone offered, "Don't you want to take pictures? Shoot me. " Some men even said, "Shoot my woman! You can shoot. "

In the summer of 2006, Liang Zi began her fourth trip to Africa. This time, she chose to enter Cameroon during the rainy season. Every time Liang Zi went to Africa, he got different gains and puzzles. When those lives became memories, all he left behind were beautiful memories. Among them, an escape from a virgin forest in Cameroon made her unforgettable. When I came back from the first photo shoot, I just drove a taxi for 20 kilometers and broke down. It was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and it was 50 kilometers away from the destination. There is also a chief, a driver and several others. It rained that day, and the ground was particularly muddy. It happened that I didn't bring my flashlight. Several people groped their way out of the primeval forest, and strange cries of various animals came from their ears. It took them about five hours to get out, an experience that she will never forget.

In the summer and autumn of 2009, Liang Zi chose a small country, Boudillon, as his fifth trip to Africa. That is a country in east-central Africa, which has experienced the same massacre as Rwanda. The people there are very poor. Some people don't even have farmland. They make pots in the mud for a living. Nevertheless, they always sing while working, which makes Liang Zi very "shocked" and makes Liang Zi feel that "the most beautiful woman in the world is the most powerful woman".

During this trip to Africa, Liang Zi's videos and pictures were made into four TV documentaries "Africa is not too far away" by the documentary channel of Shanghai TV Station, which caused great repercussions after being broadcast in China.

June, 2009 +065438+ 10, Liang Zi wanted to drill several wells, build several toilets and buy some stoves for the people in the Sierra Leone town of Bo. As soon as this idea was revealed, I didn't expect to get the support of many people.

Since then, Liang Zi has traveled to Africa many times. 20 1 1 On April 23rd, she went to South Sudan. In 20 13, she went to Kenya, Botswana and other African countries. June 20 14, she went to Uganda in Africa. In Weibo on June 18, she wrote: "Familiar climate, familiar environment, familiar land, familiar black people, familiar smell, familiar sunshine ... I have depended on Africa all my life. This is my first 10 trip to Africa alone. Looking back on my first trip to Africa, everything is really different. "

A whimsical trip made Liang Zi and Africa have a hard fate. Liang Zi himself won a series of honors for his concern for Africa. 20 1 1 won the 201most influential person of the year award at the first outdoor video festival of travel channel. At the end of the same year, she was one of15 "201kloc-0/China women looking for happiness" in the large-scale activities of caring for women sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the All-China Women's Federation and Hunan Satellite TV. 20 12 won the Best Outdoor Photographer Award of the 6th Outdoor Golden Rhino Award in China.

Now, Liang Zi has compiled 30 video albums, recording the scenery and humanistic feelings along the way in Africa, and making people know more about this magical land in Africa.