Personal Favorites - Travel

Artist's Statement:

My philosophy of travel photography is very different from that of landscape photography. My landscape photographs are more about my poetic expression of my feeling towards the beauty of nature, and less about the description of the real world. Travel photography to me, on the other hand,is about story telling. They are an artist's documentary of the geographic locations as well as their people. Although everyone has their own view angles and artistic style of communication, the pictures cannot be devoid of reality.

I believe that pictures should speak themselves. Through my work, I want to show readers the culture and the buildings of the locations I visited, and the life and feelings of the people living there. These pictures are also a part of my own travel experience, a part of my own memory.

Technique Notes:

Photos were taken with digital DSLRs as well as 35mm slide films.

1. Airplanes Landed on Glaciers of Mt. Mckinley. Alaska, USA

《着陆冰川》，美国阿拉斯加州丹拿利国家公园

2. Colorful Houses of Manarola During Sunset Time. Cinque Terre, Italy

最后一抹夕阳照耀着意大利五渔村马纳罗海边那些五彩缤纷的房子

3. Admiring. Lincoln Memorial. Washington DC, USA

敬仰

4. Under the Duomo di Siena. Siena, Italy

意大利锡安娜大教堂

5. Of all the great pizaazes of Italy, Piazza del Campo is the loveliest.
The deep blue colors of the sky were the result of taking the image during the "blue hour", about 30-40 minutes after sunset.
It is generally considered the best time to shoot night-time images of cities.

被誉为意大利最可爱的广场的锡安娜康波广场，在夜幕中显得格外宁静优美

6. Couple Dancing During Cincinnati Oktoberfest. Cincinnati, USA
I only had a roll of Kodak E100VS film (which has very vivid colors) in my camera when I spotted the happy young couple
and I managed to snap just one shot.

在美国辛辛那提啤酒节上，路边一对年轻人在乐队伴奏下翩翩起舞

7. An elegant baroque-style old drugstore in Salzburg, Austria

奥地利萨尔斯堡城内一家古色古香的巴洛克式药店

8. These amazingly complex and giant underground cables and machinery run San Francisco's famous cable cars.
I carefully adjust a perspective-control lens to avoid mush of the annoying distortion associated with super-wide lens,
and used a solid tripod to capture sharp images under very dim and difficult light.

这些巨大而复杂的地下钢缆和机械带动着着旧金山举世闻名的缆车系统。