I AM SPEECH

Leonardo da Vinci once said "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." We don't live at the times of Renaissance, and there is one advantage that we can take as modern human beings - technology. With technology, we can make miracles out of impossibles. This leads to my topic today - photography.

I believe that our interests have already been designed hand hidden deep down in our body. We use our life-long journey to discover the jade hidden inside the stones. My journey is not that much different. I knew it all the way that I loved visual art - actually one of the things that I enjoy most of coming to America is that there are so many fantastic museums - I can stare at Vincent van Gogh's "The Night Cafe" for 20 minutes. As you can see, I am a big fan of impressionism. Also as you know, one of the most essential point of impressionism is to capture the right moment - for example Claude Monet's "The Sunrise", he has to capture the exact moment of the sun bursting from the horizon. Impressionist painters' magic is to recreate the power of the moment.

But compare to painting, photographing has its own elegant attribute. I first picked up camera when I was in middle school. After receiving a few compliments, I started to take it seriously. I got my first digital single-lens camera and started to learn how to play with this new toy.

After I came to Cheshire Academy, I talked with the marketing & communication department. Now I am one of their interns, and I take pictures of lives in school, and they will use my work on school website. Also, I was invited by the American Diabetes Association to take photograph for an event in New York next month.

The point I want to make here is that it is not difficult or never too late to start as long as it's a thing that you truly like. My interest in photographing, you can call it a compromise for not able to paint or draw. But I worked on it continuously, so it is now a hobbit that I am proud of.