2 inspirational stories

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

inspirational story 1: the colorful life of a color-blind photographer

At the world painting and calligraphy exhibition, there was a photo collection called Discovery of the Sea that attracted special attention. All the photos in the album are taken of the sea, and they are all moments of catching waves. When water and light are fixed in the lens, they show the ultimate beauty of life. The beautiful picture amazed everyone, and what is even more admirable is that the photographer is actually a color-blind patient.

He was born in Australia and 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 he had a problem with color discrimination, so he took him to the hospital for examination. Unexpectedly, he was color blind.

In my father's eyes, his world will become gloomy. My father put away his crayons and stopped discussing any topics related to colors 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 Slowly, he began to escape from the colorful world, and his personality became very withdrawn.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 has no color, only darkness.

once, he and his parents took a boat trip. When the sea breeze was blowing on the deck, he accidentally saw a young man of his own age surfing on the sea. Although the waves were rough, the young man was not afraid at all, but fought against the waves for strength and beauty.

He was stunned, and his calm heart was deeply shocked. He never wanted to take pictures, so he subconsciously took out his mobile phone and took the picture. Father saw his attentive expression and told him that he could actually surf on 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 is 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 his break. But this time, he didn't find a suitable location on the boat, and he was worried when he saw that the boat was about to dock. He didn't want to lose the opportunity to shoot this film. After the ship landed, he jumped into the sea to face 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 the photos he took and found that he could get out of the underground tunnel and live another life. He immediately called his boss and said that he couldn't go to the night shift and he would continue to shoot.

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 shooting the sea. He chased every jump of the waves at sea, capturing that beautiful and moving 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 picture, but it was his love for 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 sunshine that he had just fixed with the psychology of trying. To his surprise, this photo actually won the first prize. He made a name for himself in photography with a 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 the photo album is Discovery of the Sea.

He is Ray Collins, an Australian color-blind 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 this 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, color-blind photographers can have a colorful life no matter what storms they encounter in their lives, as long as they don't surrender to fate and make unremitting efforts to pursue their dreams.

inspirational story 2: China broke into the African female photographer Liang Zi and recorded the mysterious world 1 times.

She won the Best Outdoor Photographer Award in the 6th China Outdoor Golden Rhino Award in 212. She visited this mysterious land 1 times in 14 years. Her lens recorded the life of various black tribes. What are the interesting stories about her and Africa?

I went to Africa for the first time, and lived at the uncle's house of the king.

Liang Zi, born in Beijing in 1961, joined the army in 1977 and became a female journalist in the military field. In 1998, Jackie Chan's movie "Who am I?", the leading actor's oily image, suddenly inspired her to visit Africa.

In July, 2, 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 accidentally entered the royal family. At that time, there were many people around the Sheikh's house. The locals had never seen China people or other foreigners before. The most frequently asked question was: "Where is China?" Liang Zi explained the position of China and Lesotho by showing the appearance of the earth.

Liang Zi said that there was no clean drinking water and there was not even enough water. Every day, you can only pour some water into the plastic bottle and pour it down from your head, which is a shower. In the small villages in the jungle where Liang Zi often goes to interview and take photos, people drink the mud in the pits. In order not to affect her work because of 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, making wine, squeezing palm oil and making soap; Record how a woman gives birth on her knees, and how to hold another wedding with her husband after 8 years of marriage in order to give birth ... < P > "You should find a boyfriend when you stay here alone for so long." One day, the woman in the village said to Liang Zi, "Cai Bao is the most handsome man in the village and can speak English. How about him as your boyfriend?" The matchmaker came to the door. The young man brought in, Liang Zi raised his voice and joked: "OK! According to your rules, do you send a dowry or a deposit first? "

Cai Bao took it seriously and kept looking at the matchmaker's face. Liang Zi was so serious that he was in distress situation. Liang Zi told them that China people are a monogamous country, and they were surprised. Later, Liang Zi and this black boy named Cai Bao became good friends. Cai Bao sometimes jokes: "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 avoid AIDS patients. On the contrary, they respect those struggling souls. Liang Zi once recorded the whole process of the life 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 she died, she said a lot to Liang Zi, and more than 1 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 to China, the chief opened the most distinguished red wine at the king's banquet for her, and the villagers sang farewell songs for her, and Liang Zi could not help but burst into tears.

In November, 2, Liang Zi published the book "Breaking into the Alpine Kingdom of Africa-A Documentary of the Survival of a China Female Photographer in a Black Village". She lifted the veil of this small African country with her lens and her heart.

After hearing the Sierra Leonean President's gratitude to China,

Only a few months after returning from Lesotho, Liang Zi made another decision that surprised his friends: to go to Sierra Leone in West Africa. The country has the reputation of "the country of diamonds", and civil strife broke out for 1 years for diamonds.

In Bocheng, a small town in Sierra Leone, Liang Zi was introduced by the 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 packed her room. At that time, the temperature was as high as 4℃ 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 my body turned out to be a big sponge.

Sierra Leone is a diamond-producing area, where the film "Bloody Diamonds" was filmed. After experiencing it personally, Liang Zi discovered that the images in film and television works are all imaginary, and Africa is extremely poor and extremely happy. The small mountain village is very poor. Only two days a week, there is a generator to generate electricity for two hours at a time. When there is no electricity, only homemade candles can be used. As for the diet, it is even more humble. Live crabs are cooked casually with water and eaten. Although material life is scarce, Liang Zi can always see people singing in the moonlight every night. Once I went home after taking photos, and walked on the road, several women in the village ran over and took her hand: "You are too boring. Come, we will teach you to sing and dance."

in 21, the protracted war finally ended. 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 thanks to China, many reporters around him paid attention to her. At this time, she discovered that she was the only one from China among the tens of thousands of people in the audience; Of all the reporters, she is the only woman, and pride can't help but arise.

Documenting Africa with a lens and promoting Africa

In July 25, Liang Zi went to Eritrea, where it rained only twice a year, and the annual precipitation was only 2mm, and his eyes were full of endless deserts. After arriving, Liang Zi encountered the biggest trouble that he could not take pictures.

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

In the summer of 26, Liang Zi began her fourth trip to Africa. This time, she chose to enter Cameroon during the rainy season. Liang Zi has different gains and puzzles every time he goes to Africa, and when those lives become memories, all he leaves behind are beautiful memories. Among them, an escape from a virgin forest in Cameroon made her unforgettable. When an issue came back from taking photos, the rented taxi broke down just after 2 kilometers. At that time, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and there were still 5 kilometers away from the destination. There were also a chief, a driver and several others. It was raining that day, the ground was particularly muddy, and it happened that I didn't bring a flashlight. Several people groped their way out of the virgin forest with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and there were strange sounds of various animals next to their ears. It took them about five hours to get out, and this experience made her unforgettable.

In the summer and autumn of 29, Liang Zi chose a small country, Boudillon, for his fifth trip to Africa. That is a country in east-central Africa, which once experienced the same massacre as Rwanda. The people there are very poor. Some people don't even have cultivated land. They make pots in the mud for a living. Nevertheless, they are always singing 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, the videos and pictures taken by Liang Zi were made into four episodes of TV documentary "Africa is not too far away" by the documentary channel of Shanghai TV Station, which caused great repercussions after being broadcast in China.

In November, 29, Liang Zi wanted to drill a few wells for people in Bo, a small town in Sierra Leone, build some toilets and buy some stoves for Tabam village. 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. On April 23rd, 211, she went to South Sudan. In 213, she went to Kenya, Botswana and other countries in Africa. In June 214, she went to Uganda in Africa again. In Weibo on June 18th, she wrote: "Familiar climate, familiar environment, familiar land, familiar black people, familiar smell, familiar sunshine ... I have depended on Africa in my life. This is my 1th 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 an inseparable fate. Liang Zi himself won a series of honors for paying attention to Africa. In 211, she won the most influential person of the year award in 211 at the first Walker Outdoor Video Festival in travel channel. At the end of the same year, in the large-scale activity "Looking for Happiness" sponsored by the Propaganda Department of All-China Women's Federation and Hunan Satellite TV, it became one of the 15 "211 China Women Looking for Happiness Person of the Year". In 212, she won the Best Outdoor Photographer Award of the 6th Annual Outdoor Golden Rhino Award in China.

Now, Liang Zi has compiled 3 video albums, recording the scenery and humanistic feelings along the way in Africa, and letting people know more about this magical land in Africa.