Photojournalist Liu Guangming: A 40-year-old photojournalist.

News photography is often a hard job, so photographers are mostly young people and the competition is fierce. Now some photojournalists can't run when they are less than 40 years old, but Liu Guangming turned to be a photojournalist when he was over 40 years old. Is it a mule or a horse? Pull it out for a walk.

1955 In September, Liu Guangming was born in a worker's family in Guilin. 1973 jumped the queue in the countryside after graduating from high school and became a worker two years later. Through his own efforts, Liu Guangming, an apprentice, joined the Party within three years and became the Communist Youth League Secretary of the factory. 198 1 year, the factory sent him to the Party School of Guilin Municipal Committee to study full-time for one year, and returned to the factory to do propaganda work after graduation. From 65438 to 0985, Liu Guangming attended a photography training class in Guilin, and initially mastered the basic skills of developing and enlarging photos in a darkroom.

Being able to walk into the gate of Xinhua News Agency and become a photojournalist, Liu Guangming said that he would never forget a person. ? 1988, worked as a propagandist in Guilin medical administration. I sent all the pictures related to legal popularization and legal publicity to Guilin reporter station of Guangxi Legal News, which was received by Lu Wei, the stationmaster at that time. After a long time, I became familiar with Lu Wei and often chatted about photography together. Simon Lu 1990 joined Xinhua News Agency, and we still keep in touch. I think it may be that I am more careful about the reporting task, which makes Lu Wei impressed me deeply. Once, he asked me if I would like to work for Xinhua News Agency. Is it 1 1 In the 24 air crash, Guilin suffered from the lack of photographers, and failed to rush to the scene to take photos of the air crash at the first time, and failed to take more wonderful and impactful pictures. I said, of course, going to Xinhua News Agency is my dream. I'm absolutely willing to go as long as you are willing! Lu Wei said, then come to the (Guilin) branch to take photos. ?

During the period of 1993, Liu Guangming was in Beijing and asked Lin Chuan, then deputy director of the photography department of Xinhua News Agency, how to do a good job in Guilin's photography report. Lin Chuan told him that he could report photos around Guilin's famous historical and cultural city and international tourist city, and cited many examples of pictures that could be taken.

From April 6, 438 to April 1994, Liu Guangming was transferred to Guilin Branch of Xinhua News Agency to work in administration and marketing. Although he is eager to become a professional photojournalist, he faces many unfavorable factors. The most important thing is that he is almost 40 years old. At that time, the Personnel Bureau of Xinhua News Agency expressly stipulated that new photographers should have a college degree or above, have excellent photographic works, and should not be over 35 years old. All these conditions have been met, and it needs the approval of the photography department of the head office.

I remember that Guangxi Branch reported the information of Liu Guangming and consulted the photography department. I'm from the branch management department, and I tend to disagree. If he can't run away when he first comes, it will make his personal career development and the photography work of the branch seem very passive. But when I met him personally, I thought he was honest and sincere, and he was a serious person, so I suggested that the branch try for a while before making a decision.

Liu Guangming said? At this time, Lu Wei encouraged me to be a photojournalist in Xinhua News Agency. Only by constantly contributing to Xinhua News Agency can I realize my ideal. Therefore, while I am in charge of the information department and office work of the branch, I also try to tap the news resources of Guilin and insist on reporting with words and pictures. ?

1In July 1998, US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary visited Guilin. Lan He, a senior photographer in charge of central news in Xinhua News Agency, is responsible for shooting reports. Liu Guangming got to know them and had the opportunity to study and exercise on the spot. Liu Guangming was in charge of filming Hillary Clinton, paying attention to her all the time, and never slackened off for a moment. Many things happen. He took a photo of Hillary's mother and daughter talking in front of Qixingyan, which became an exclusive photo.

On March, 1999, Guangxi Branch of Xinhua News Agency informed Liu Guangming to work in the photography team. Lu Wei, then president of the branch, said in front of the members of the party group of the branch: It's a mule or a horse. Pull it out for a walk. If you do well, stay; Maybe, just * *. ? The scene at that time, Liu Guangming is still vivid. At that time, Xiong Chunlei and Chen Tianhu were the backbone of the Guangxi branch photography group headed by Chen Ruihua. With the yearning for the photographer of Xinhua News Agency and the persistent pursuit of news photography, he made every effort to shoot a film and publish it. At that time, according to the work quota given by the head office to the remote western provinces, the task of photojournalists in Guangxi Branch was to take 56 photos a year, and Liu Guangming completed more than 30 photos in less than one year.

After one year's work practice, Liu Guangming passed the examination of the photography department, stayed in Guangxi Branch and became a photojournalist of Xinhua News Agency. At the age of 44, he is the oldest new photojournalist of Xinhua News Agency.

Interview with the scientific investigation, and I also made the news.

Guangxi Leye Tiankeng Group is an extremely rare karst cave group in the world. What do the locals call them? Dashiwei? . It was formed 65 million years ago, shaped like a huge funnel, hidden in the mountains. After investigation, scientists determined that this is the largest sinkhole group in the world.

In April, 20001year, a scientific investigation team composed of Chinese and foreign explorers, karst geologists, zoologists and botanists will conduct a large-scale scientific investigation on leye county Tiankeng Group. Liu Guangming accepted this task and conducted an interview report with the expedition for half a month.

In the follow-up interview of the expedition team to the Huangdong Tiankeng, Liu Guangming walked through the dense forest with photographic equipment on his back, with thick humus at his feet and flying insects peculiar to the forest. Soon, everyone was sweating. I saw a huge hole in the yellow cave, and the majestic cliff stood upright, forming the wall of the hole. Seen from a distance, the mountain seems to open its mouth to the sky.

This pit is halfway up the mountain. On a downhill slope, Liu Guangming slipped, immediately turned a somersault, and fell off the hillside directly. At the moment when everyone exclaimed, fortunately, he reached for a small tree and didn't fall into the sinkhole more than 100 meters deep. This thrilling scene happened to be photographed by all the reporters of CCTV 4. It is said that after seeing the news, someone in the editor-in-chief of the branch specially called Liu Guangming to ask him to pay attention to safety.

In half a month's time, the expedition team visited the Tiankeng Group in Dashiwei, such as Dongfeng, Dacao Tiankeng, Huangdong Tiankeng, Lianhua Cave and Datuo Tiankeng, and Liu Guangming took dozens of movie pictures with the team, such as "leye county Tiankeng welcomes scientific research in spring" and "Visiting leye county Tiankeng", which unveiled the mystery of leye county Tiankeng Group to the world.

Due to Liu Guangming's excellent photo reporting task, in 2002? Leye county Tiankeng Examination for Experts from Nine Countries? The project continued to invite him to participate in the report. He and scientific experts, especially the local tiankeng exploration organization? Flying cat? Our team members have established friendship and still keep in touch.

Internal reference, 200 villagers moved into their new homes.

A few years ago, Liu Guangming came to Nawantun, Qiaoya Township, Fengshan County, Guangxi. The villagers excitedly gathered around to report to him: We have moved into a new house! It was Liu Guangming's on-the-spot interview that reflected the real situation through the internal reference of Xinhua News Agency, so that nearly 200 villagers in Lawantun were evacuated from dangerous houses and moved into new houses.

Nawan and Nasetun are located at the foot of Pose Mountain, where villagers have lived for more than 40 years. In June, 2000, a dangerous stone of about 1.50 cubic meters on the slope of Pose Mountain suddenly slipped, and two huge stones were smashed 20 meters away from the houses. Fortunately, no casualties were caused. Nawantun villagers went up the mountain to investigate afterwards and found that there were four dangerous rocks about 1 1,000 cubic meters 50 meters away from the dangerous rock landslide. Every time there is a rainstorm, nearly 200 villagers in Nawan and Nase villages have to evacuate urgently. Four huge dangerous stones hung over their heads, seriously threatening the lives and property of villagers in two villages.