HUMANITY

Picture Records of the Era

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Throughout the journey of my life of over 45 years, as a writer, photographer and an editor of travel magazine and various  nature with environment books in Thailand; until I had chance to do the book that I had dreamt for. The book that passes on our dream and journeys of nature exploration worldwide.

On this journey, as a writer, I had chance to travel while shared my work with various young travellers.  Many started their work with passion and dream of travelling just like everyone.

We were melted and molded as one explorer team of global nature into "Nature Explorer" that started publishing in 2020.  With the cover page of magazine from a travelling and exploring under - sea world,  I choose the work of Surachai Munkhongphithakkun  At that time, he was only a valunteer photographer, while operated other of his work in Had Yai,  Songhkla province.

I reckoned that had been a starting point of great travel to various places in the world,  onto the journey to explore The Roof of the World; a land of Shangri-La in China,  Tibet,  Nepal,  India,  Pakistan and Bhutan. It later became a book of "Along the Edge of Himalayan", that I myself had spent 5 years time to collect each of the routes along the edge of Himalaya. The two photographers who were always with me nsmely Montri Siopas and Suracha.M..., We shared a hard time with obstacles on difficult routes and the unseen beauty of the journey it offered. It at last become another great work of our lives. The cover page I chose isvthenpucure of Everest top view,  taken from the only  angle of Tibet  that can be catched on the road of Tibetan highland, that snap shot if Surachai  Munkhongphithakkun

After since,  Surachai decided to leave his own business, while determine to spend his life abroad in Canada and studied photography there.  He also worked as a volunteer photographer in Bosnia for 4 years.

No matter where and how he lived,  however, he had always with him his passion  on photography. Until he returned home to join force of work with Nature Explorer one more time.  From the starting point todate,  memoredum of travel and  journeys merged his soul and thus, passed onto this book of "Humanity"with no more necessary description from me, except my sincere gratitude and deep appreciation for one of my brothers who shared and worked together and became a big tree to inspire many more young camera men,  thus, for his work of life.

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NATURE EXPLORER  THAILAND