For many years, my understanding of the magnolia flower tended to be of cursory nature. It was based solely on my encounters with the white, scented flowers as an offering to the gods in temples, or with those, often just a couple of strands,

The Yulan flower, classified as Michelia alba, is a member of the Magnolia family and commonly referred to as the Spring-Greeting Flower or the Mulan flower. ?It is native to China, India, Java, and the Philippines. The Yulan is an evergreen tree that grows to between ten and twenty meters tall. According to The Illustrated Ornamental Plants of Taiwan,

In the field of Taiwanese photography, Shen Chao-liang is oftentimes regarded as an oddity and as a loner. In the 1990s, many artists turned to still photography as an expressive medium, abandoning the stylistic tendencies of documentary photography that had dominated image making in Taiwan during the second half of 1980s.

In the West, especially in the media culture led by the American news media, documentary photography is the highest form of photojournalism. Because documentary photography is so difficult, photojournalists and photographers have to start at the very bottom of the photojournalism ladder,

A photographer, when compared to an ordinary man, has an extra pair of eyes and an enlarged heart.One set of eyes sees a landscape and a people that is ordinarily ignored by most, while the other set searches for a particular place,