与志勇相识并不长，但我们聊得很多。他常常说自己只能利用节假日出去拍照，而无论去哪里，都能遇到感动自己的美景，能够拍到上好的照片，这是上天恩宠的缘故。在他的内心深处，对家庭、对单位、对周边的朋友，充满感激之心。他觉得活在这样一个世界上，很幸福。说这些话的时候，这个优雅而娴静的人，　脸上洋溢着一种快乐，打动了我，也让我久久思考他的关于“上天恩宠”的说法。
　　感恩，是一种心灵习惯。父母养育，妻子伴行，老师教诲，孩子孝敬，朋友帮助……这些因与“我”发生具体而深入的关系引发的感恩之心，人人都有，除非利己、自大到了极点；还有一种感恩，阳光普照，微风和煦，春雨滋润，秋谷收获，丰富而充沛的物质世界，孕育着我们，供养着我们，也会让我们产生感恩之心，除非麻木到极点，除非心灵被扭曲到了极点。与利己的人常常哭丧着脸相反，感恩的人脸上常常洋溢着微笑。这就是志勇一说话就笑起来的原因。他的笑容不是一时一地的，是随时随地的，发自内心的，我真羡慕他。
　　感恩不仅使人有一种良好的心态，更重要的是让他更多地发现了这个世界的美好。他们天生就是艺术家。因为感恩，他们走出了物欲的藩篱和困扰；因为感恩，他们把自己更多地融进了这个世界；因为感恩，他们变得敏锐和富有鉴赏力。志勇的摄影，就是这样一个典型的范例。他的作品洋溢着一种幸福感。在浓云密布的青藏高原，一抹金黄色的阳光掠过山坡和塔顶，这是太阳对大地的眷顾；在新疆冬日的河边，一片蘑菇样的土块被白雪覆盖，河中升起袅袅蒸汽，这是大地对生灵的照看；在坝上，油菜花大片盛开，这是蓝天白云对高原黑土的情谊；在林芝的清晨，河、城、云、天融为一体，蓝色的影调，衬出了空气和风对人的思念。而他对人的观察和发现，都是在一种宁静、平和的心态下抓取的瞬间表情和状态，他镜头中的人物，不惊恐，不浮躁，都很自在。
　　我反复审看他的作品，这里边有不少名山大川，是很多人去过的地方，但他拍摄出来，仍然让我感觉陌生。这是因为，他沿着自己心灵和情绪的指引架设机位，角度是新的；这里边也有不少是在路上拍的，景观并没有名，甚至就没有具体的地名，但我感觉到了这里的神圣和美丽。是啊，如果我们对天地造化心存感激，如果我们心态宁静，哪里没有值得拍摄的美景，田野麦苗之美，身上发饰之美，屋顶炊烟之美，山川峻拔之美，河水流动之美，都可以纳入胸中，感光于胶片之上；相反，如果我们心浮气躁，如果利欲熏心，如果急不可待，即使身在瑶池，又何曾能够看到美景？
　　怀着感恩之心，我相信志勇的摄影艺术之路能够走得很远。
　　中国艺术研究院摄影所所长、研究员 
　　李树峰
        Gratirude, a Breath Of Artistic Mind
　　It has not been very long since I made the acquaintance of Brother Zhiyong, but we had a lot of pleasant chats together. He often said that he had to make use of holidays to take pictures outside and wherever he went, he would come across some touching scenes and have them shot as nice photos simply because of “the Grace from Heave”. At the bottom of his heart, he is extremely grateful to his family, his post and his friends around. He feels very happy living in this world. As all this was said by this refined and gentle man whose face was imbued with delight, I was deeply impressed and I could not help pondering over his saying about “the Grace from Heave”.
　　Gratefulness is a spiritual habit. Unless one’s selfishness and self-importance have been inflated to extremity, it is common to everyone to have the sense of gratitude aroused by such relationships as the parental care, spouse’s company, teachers’ instruction, offspring’s filial expression and friends’ help, etc. We also have another kind of gratitude for the resourceful and plentiful material world including the sunshine, the mild breeze, the vernal rain, the autumn harvest and so on as valuable as our subsistence unless we are extremely insensitive or psychologically abnormal.
To the contrary of those selfish guys who often put on a long face, a grateful person would often have a smiling face because of delight for every gain anywhere. That is why Zhiyong smiles whenever he begins to speak. His smile can be seen anywhere at anytime and they are all from his heart. I really admire him for this.   
　　The sense of gratitude enables a person to have a fine mentality of course, but what is more important is that it makes him find something more beautiful in this world. Such a person must be an artist by nature. Because of gratefulness, they freed themselves from the barrier of physical desires; because of gratefulness, they merged themselves in the world better; because of gratefulness, they have become sensitive and have splendid taste for arts. Zhiyong’s photographic works can be a typical example in this regard. His works are full of happy feelings. It is the love of the earth by the sun in such a way that a ray of golden sunshine from a gap of thick clouds over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is shedding across the mountain slope and the pagoda roof; it is the care of the earth for the creatures in such a way that the smoky steam from a river in Xinjiang where the mushroom-like land is covered with snow in winter; it is the affection of the blue sky and white clouds for the black soil on the plateau in such a way that canola flowers are in full bloom everywhere on the Bashang Plateau; it seems that the air and wind are thinking of the human beings in such a way that the pure blue hue with a harmonious whole of the river, the town, the clouds and the sky of morning in Nyingchi. The human images in his photos have no sign of fright or impetuosity except casualness as a result of his extraordinary observation and discovery before catching the instant facial expression and atmosphere in the mood of peace and tranquility.
　　By looking repeatedly at his photographic works here, I found many famous mountains and rivers have been frequented by so many people, but such pictures taken by him still seem new and strange to me. That is because he positioned his camera according to his mind and mood so it is in the new angle. There are some pictures taken on the way of his journey and no specific name has been given to any of the scenes therein, which do not hinder me from appreciating their divinity and beauty at all. Yes indeed, so long as we are grateful to Heaven and Nature, so long as we have peaceful and tranquil mentality, there is nothing to worry about finding worthy scenery for photographic creation such as the beautiful wheat seedlings in the fields, the beautiful hairstyle and human decorations, the beautiful cooking smoke atop houses, the beautiful mountain cliffs and river flows, etc. Otherwise, if we have a shallow or greedy or impetuous mind, how could we find any thing beautiful even if we are beside the paradisiacal pond?
　　It is my firm belief that with a grateful heart Brother Zhiyong is sure to advance far and wide along the road of photographic art.
　　by Li Shufeng, Director and Research Fellow of Photographic Institute, China Academy of Art