陶长平先生祖籍江苏,居住西安,供职于西安科技大学。他一生爱好摄影,尤爱拍摄牡丹。二十多年来,每到春天牡丹花盛开之时,在城北的大明宫,城南的牡丹苑,兴庆宫公园的沉香亭畔,或者大雁塔的牡丹园里,只要有牡丹花丛的地方,都会见到陶长平殷勤守候的身影。他就像一个痴痴的情郎,年年来与牡丹约会。他自诩是牡丹的御用摄影师,尽心尽意地为牡丹拍照。虽然牡丹花期在4月中旬到5月上旬之间,长达二十多天,可是对一朵花而言,最精神最有神韵的只有三两天时光。陶先生爱摄影,懂摄影。他知道即使是花朵最繁盛的这儿大之中,每天也只有一两个 Mr. Tao Changping native of Jiangsu, living in Xi’an, worked in Xi’an University of Science and Technology. He is passionate about photography all his life, especially love to shoot peonies. For more than two decades, every spring, when peony blossom is in full bloom, in the Daming Palace in the north of the city, Peony Garden in the south, Shenxiang Pavilion in Xingqing Palace Park, or Peony Garden in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Tao Changping will see waiting attentive figure. He is like a joking lover dating the peony every year. He is a self-proclaimed peony Queen photographer, dedicated to Peony photo. Although the peony flowering period from mid-April to early May, up to twenty days, but for a flower, the most spiritual charm of the most only two or three days time. Mr. Tao love photography, photography. He knows that there are only one or two daily, even the largest of the flowers