In 1967, Lin's photo "A Full Load" was selected out of 84,000 entries from 32 countries as the year's best by the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, the first time the award had gone to a foreign photographer.
一九六七年，林彰三以一張「滿載」，參加每日新聞社主辦的攝影比賽，在第一部「小型印畫」中，先贏得二月份一等獎；年終決賽，集中全年各月份一等獎評審，再過三關，擊敗了卅二個國家、八萬四千張參加競賽的業餘攝影家作品，奪得最佳作品的「年度賞」。