During this, his most productive period of activity, he used his camera almost as a pen to keep a photo-graphic diary, and he left behind a precious testimony of the way Taiwan was during the Japanese colonial era.
這是他創作量達巔峰的一段日子，他似乎以照相機為筆，持續且執迷地撰寫生活上的影像日記，而這些代表他攝影歷程中第一階段性作品，最有意義的是，他能以一個本省攝影家的「觀點」出發，替殖民時代的台灣情境，留下許多珍貴的見證。