About

Growing up in remote northeast China, my childhood was surrounded by the natural world. Looking up at a dark sky and counting the shooting stars flying by; watching the burning sunset retreating from the other side of the small forest and being fascinated by the magical color transformation of the clouds; walking through the meadow after the rain and watching blue dragonflies gracefully darting on the tips of the grass; lying on the thick snow bed on the little hill that was rarely reached by people and listening to the cracking sound when stepping into the firm snow.

Nature nourished me and taught me how to listen to the music of its sound in the silence. Most of all, it taught me how to discover its mostly unnoticed beauty in my own way. But those were simply recorded by the eyes, kept in the heart, and became a never fading memory.

Early in the millennium, I moved to Tucson, Arizona to pursue a master degree in Computer Science at the University of Arizona. Surrounded by exotic red landscape, I started to record the natural world with my camera. In 2006, a professional job opportunity brought me to the beautiful city by the Pacific Ocean, Seattle, Washington. The beauty of the forests, ocean, and mountains inspires me. Looking into the water, looking up to the sky, childhood memory guides me to discover these amazing moments. From shooting seascapes to chasing fleeting reflections in the water, photography helped me enrich and distill my experiences.

I paint my own vision of the world, using the camera as a brush, and painting with light, to express my feelings of those moments when the images were captured. My work is to convey the essence of the places where the images were created, on the beach, in the forest, at the dusk. Photography created countless very personal and special moments in my life.

Besides painting using the camera, I also explores oil and acrylic painting. Searching for the harmony and collision of colors using oil and acrylic is an alternate way for me to represent the places where dreams and memories linger.

So, stop by my Galleries, I am happy to share with you what I saw through my camera and what I felt at those personal moments.

I hope you will enjoy your visit.