SURPRISE OF 2000 DAYS

Hou Yimin's Adventurous Stories with pandas

A Book Written With vigorous life, Chengdu, China

From 1987 to 1993,Hou Yimin who is a permanent photographer of World Wild Fund for Nature spent six years living in the Nature Pander Reserve of West China,and devoted himself to take the pictures of wild panda.His autobiographic book,2000 Days in the Forest, has the big capacity of 100 thousand words and 150 high quality artistic pictures of wild panda.The book vividly and systematicly presents Hou Yimin ' s adventure as a professional photographer of wild animals and the living condition of wild panda.

“ I wouldn ' t have to be a master of words. ” “ Not everyone is able to find the real goal of life,or has the opportunity to experience the variety of life.It was only after I entered the mysterious forest that I found the goal of life. ” In the preface of this book, Hou

 

Yimin told the initial feeling to his work as the artistic photographer of wild panda. “ My friend said that a photographer rarely has the capacity to a master of words. I just got a chance to relax a while.It was painful for a photographer to put down his camera and relax.I could think with the help of photos.I have great confidence to my work.I wouldn ' t have to be a master of words, and I was writing with my heart. ” We can see these simple words by his true heart.

45 Exciting Notes in the Life

45 articles in Hou Yimin ' s book show his painful and exciting feeling when he came back from six years life adventure in the deep forest. The Stories, Ferocious Pander, Struggle with Wild Pander, Wolfish Baby Panda, tell the fierce and violence of panda as the carnivorous and iron – eating animal, and reveal the other secret of pander as the kind of docile and peaceful animal. The stories, Intrude into the Death Valley at Night, A Narrow Escape, Beyond the Life Limit, present the life adverture with blood and fire. The stories, Blue Lake, Extend the Life Span, symbolize the happy life and dream.

150 Outstanding Photos

“ Brilliant works, very good indeed. ” Prince Philip, husband of the Queen of England, the chairman of World Wild Fund for Nature gave the high praise when he collected Hou Yimin ' s work Share in the Same Globe.

150 photos in Hou YiMin ' s work, 2000 Days in the Forest, chose from his thousands of photographic works are called most outstanding world wild panda photos. Share in the Same Globe as the photographic work is hung out in Rongbao Zhai Gallery, and its minimum price is US$50,000.( This act is famed the milestone in the photographic history of China.) The large-scale photographic album , Wild Panda in China, and IC card of panda has the great influence in China and the world. 150 photographic works has been exhibited in ten cities of China, such as Beijing、Jin Men in Hu Bei Province、Cheng Du and etc.

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