Still, photos like "The Happy Life on the Farm," with the women chatting amiably as they work, show Hsu's deep feeling for naturalist and realist painting; he simply captured on film what he couldn't bring off on the canvas.
後來他就隨身攜帶相機將風景拍下，回來再練習，也逐漸覺得繪畫是件麻煩事，用相機記錄更直截了當，而導致日後興趣慢慢地移轉到攝影方面。