Love the color of the soldier's uniform

Since childhood, Nguyen Le Tien has been fascinated by beautiful images of his homeland. He often cut out landscape photos taken by photographers from wall calendars to admire. In 10th grade, when his parents gave him a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone, his photography journey began. After school, he wandered around Thanh Hoa district, Long An province, persistently taking many photos of rivers, villages... finding them as a joy in life, a relaxation.

Báo Cà Mau•25/09/2024

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Nguyen Le Tien was born in 2001, from Long An province, member of the Photography Association, Long An Province Literature and Arts Association.

Since childhood, Nguyen Le Tien has been fascinated by beautiful images of his homeland. He often cut out landscape photos taken by photographers from wall calendars to admire. In 10th grade, when his parents gave him a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone, his photography journey began. After school, he wandered around Thanh Hoa district, Long An province, persistently taking many photos of rivers, villages... finding them as a joy in life, a relaxation.

When photography Facebook groups developed, he often posted photos for people to give feedback; diligently learned about photography, explored more on YouTube; read comments and viewed exhibition photos of uncles and aunts on social networks... to learn and gain experience.

In 12th grade, seeing that his student loved photography, his homeroom teacher sold him a Sony DSC H300 camera at a cheap price and let him contribute 100,000 VND per week. Thanks to that, he was able to own his first camera and took more photos until he went to university.

“Photography has changed my life a lot. When I was in college, in a dynamic and creative environment, photography gave me the opportunity to meet many people, connect with friends; from there, I had more social relationships and got my current job,” shared young photographer Nguyen Le Tien.

Born in a peaceful village in the border area of Long An, his childhood, like many other children, was associated with the river, the banks of cajuput trees, and the rice fields. Memories of the beautiful West always exist in his soul, on his current journey of striving, studying, training, and working, with the scene of fishing on the river, people working hard in the white rain, harvesting water chives, sowing rice in the planting season, and the pineapple season...

Later, when he graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University of Law and attended the reserve officer training course, he not only trained and learned military knowledge, but also nurtured his love for the soldier's uniform.

From there, he had more favorite topics about soldiers on the training ground, training activities: Brigade 25 with the image of the PMP ferry carrying vehicles across the river, anchoring the ferry after launching, assembling - connecting buoy segments, commanders leaving the ferry...; Live-fire competition of the Army Air Defense - People's Air Defense... In addition, he also has interesting works about the ranger force as the "foster father" of sea turtles in Con Dao National Park, the place recognized by the national record book as releasing the most baby turtles into the sea...

From now on, he said he will compose more, bringing beautiful images of soldiers closer to the people.

Engineers training to cross the river.