Photography & Life, Furniture, Small Happiness in Plain Life

When I was in high school, I saw a sentence that said, "If you don't go out for a walk, you will think that this is the world."

This sentence is posted on my desk so that I can always look up. At that time, a 16-year-old girl could not sleep with her parents. So, I live alone in the small house vacated for me at home.

That house is dark and crude. There is only one heatable adobe sleeping platform. When I got married with my parents, I hired a carpenter to make a desk. But every time I come home from school and sit in that house, I feel very practical. I thought that satisfaction at the moment was happiness, but later, when I came into contact with more and more people, better living conditions, and lived a colorful life by others, I began to feel that satisfaction was a terrible thing.

After I went to college, I saw the photos sent by others are very beautiful, as if they were alive, talking and telling stories. But my own photos are a mess. So I am unwilling and dissatisfied, and I want to be like her, and I can take photos like that.

The girl majoring in Chinese language and literature went to Yan 'an University. In summer, she wears all kinds of floral dresses with short curly hair and always takes beautiful photos. I talked to her several times, and I said I liked your photos very much, as if I could tell stories and bring the scenery to life.

She said that in fact, pictures are nothing more than trivial things that can be seen everywhere in life, but are ignored by many people. Might as well give it a try and observe things around you carefully. When you have yearning and expectation for beauty in your heart, you will find many things that you usually ignore, and you will begin to look at life with an appreciation and enjoyment.

People pay too much attention to heavy things, expensive things and flatterers. However, in this life, which is mostly occupied by dullness, what makes us happy the most is often the most insignificant.

Later, I met another boy who likes taking pictures.

Every few days, he will update some photos in his circle of friends. Those photos are all details, the most common things in life.

In autumn, a yellow maple leaf falls on the car body; Several roses in full bloom in the flower bed on campus.

On rainy days, water drops are hanging on leek leaves in the garden; Water drops on the stamens of wild flowers blooming by the roadside.

They opened my eyes. Although it seems that these things are really insignificant now and will not attract me as much as they did at the beginning, I still think they are beautiful. It was because I met these people, saw the photos they took and saw their way of life that I realized that this ordinary life could still be like this and it could be so interesting.

After that, I also began to learn to take pictures. It was difficult at first, and I felt it was difficult to master the skills.

I used to take pictures and press the shutter directly at the object. Now I know how to focus, understand composition, understand lighting and understand the later stage.

You see, if I hadn't gone to college and met these people, I wouldn't like taking pictures. You won't dig out the little things in ordinary life, and you won't find what you like and realize your value. What's more, I didn't know there were many ways to live. Which is the most interesting depends on your own eyes.

Later, I met him. It seems that everything is doomed.

After my photography skills are introduced, it's time for me to show them my photos and get some praise.

This is a vast world. Before that, I didn't do anything or do anything meaningful every day. Although I like reading, I haven't written many decent articles. Looking back now, I wasted too many beautiful years and lost a lot of precious time.

At school, I saw many people who were a hundred times better than me. They are all highly educated, studying abroad, traveling, photographing, writing, publishing books and starting businesses. And work harder on the basis of their own Excellence, enjoy life and improve themselves.

If you don't go out for a walk, you will think that this is the world.

There are many people who like photography in the world who will share their photography skills and photos. Looking at their photos, I envy them. But I feel very happy when I look at my progress. The people and things I know around me make me more and more curious, knowing that the world is far more wonderful than what I see with my eyes.

Now, I take some photos every day. Or flowers on the way to lunch, or a fallen leaf floating on the water in rainy days, or how plants grow in the sun, and mottled light and shadow projected between trees.

Sometimes I choose to walk back after work. On the one-hour journey, it was taking photos that made me feel that time flies. It's taking pictures that makes me feel less lonely, but enjoying catching small objects in the light and shadow on the road.

This group of photos was taken when I walked home from work yesterday, holding the macro lens of my mobile phone and looking for it all the way.

The small world is actually amazing. You will see an ant rushing to carry the small soil particles in the nest, and you will see their crawling tracks on a leaf and a branch. You will see a small world in a drop of water; You will see the cells in the veins; You will see the shyness before a flower blooms and the inner magic after it blooms.

These are all small fortunes in plain life, which are brought to me by photography.

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