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Red-crowned Crane: Ai's Photography Collection

The following is the introduction of "Red-crowned Crane: Ai's Photography Collection":

In order to spread crane knowledge, inherit crane culture and guide readers to appreciate it, this book adopts the form of combining poetry and painting. Works described in 200 to 300 words, except the time and place of shooting. Introduce crane knowledge and crane culture related to maps to readers as much as possible, and give some hints for readers to understand and appreciate.

In order to give some help to photographers who love cranes, there are also some shooting experiences, lessons and stories. There are 100 main pictures in the book, and the explanation of each picture is a "finishing touch", accompanied by a classical poem (or two sentences) related to it. It also includes more than ten songs selected and translated from the earliest Japanese song collection "Ye Wan Collection".

Personal data:

Ai, male, was born in 1950, and his native place is Baicheng, Jilin. Senior reporter. 1985 graduated from Jilin Radio and TV University majoring in Chinese. At present, he is a member of China Photographers Association and China Art Photography Society, and works in the Information Office of Jilin Provincial Government.

The main achievement is that many works have been selected into various film festivals at home and abroad and won prizes. Among them, "There are cranes in the fairyland" won the silver prize in the 17th National Photography Art Exhibition. In the past ten years, he has directed and filmed major TV documentaries and completed 20 feature films (38 episodes).

Among them, the TV series "Together is a Good Time" directed by the director won the second prize of the joint program of the three northern regions 13 provinces and cities. While actively engaged in creative activities, he also published papers such as How to Discover Beauty in Life. The following articles are included in the Collection of Essays on National Publicity and Interaction.

Introduction of red-crowned crane:

Red-crowned crane is a large wading bird of Crane, with a body length of 120- 160 cm. The neck and feet are long, the whole body is mostly white, the top of the head is bright red, the throat and neck are black, the ears to the headrest are white, the feet are black, the neck and tail feathers and feet are black when standing, the top of the head is red, and the rest are white.

When flying, only the second and third flight feathers, neck and feet are black, and the rest are white, which is extremely obvious and easy to identify. The bird's head and neck are brown and its feathers are white and chestnut. Ethnic groups and small groups that often pair up or get married. In the migration season and winter, several or dozens of family groups often form larger groups. Sometimes there are as many as 40-50 clusters, even more than 100.

However, when they are active, they are still scattered in small groups or family groups in a certain area. At night, they mostly inhabit shallows surrounded by water or the edge of reed ponds, and mainly feed on the stems, leaves, tubers, bulbs and fruits of fish, shrimp, aquatic insects, mollusks, tadpoles, nereis and aquatic plants. Distributed in northeast China, eastern Mongolia, east bank of Russian Ussuri River, North Korea, South Korea and Hokkaido.