Wax castle under the applied art category by Wat Suwan Nin Chindaraam (Wat Kok Som Hong) temple community. The wax castle won first prize at the Wax Castle Festival of Sakon Nakhon 2025. Exhibited at the Sakon Nakhon Provincial Centre from 2 to 6 October 2025. #streetphotography #Asia

Few things in this world display a #purity equal to that running through a bamboo hollow. Due to the stem’s hollowness, bamboo is identified as a grass while looking like a tree. And it is the hollow that allows bamboo to exhibit supreme flexibility, a container of unbreakable emptiness. #BraveWrite

Winds of longing blow through a bamboo emptiness — timeless, never demanding a #name. The passage flows upward like a fountain that defies gravity while rooted to the earth. Quietly, a satin gold wraps the dragon strength, amber coating spread into a translucent veil of disappearing vanilla. #vss365

A little lost on purpose, the winds soothe the walls, releasing through snow-silk tails the human insecurities collected in the air’s memory. Before departure through bamboo limbs, they turn into bodiless hands, feeling the stem texture of a #jade artefact shooting heavenward from the earth. #vss365

The Khmer Hindu Temple Complex of Prasat Muang Tum is located in Prakhon Chai District of Buri Rum Province in northeastern Thailand. The name Muang Tum refers to the lowlands in which the temple is situated. Architectural aspects exhibit the Khleang and Baphuon styles. #blackandwhitephotography

The Khmer Hindu Temple Complex of Prasat Muang Tum is located in Prakhon Chai District of Buri Rum Province in northeastern Thailand. The name Muang Tum refers to the lowlands in which the temple is situated. Architectural aspects exhibit the Khleang and Baphuon styles. #blackandwhitephotography

The Khmer Hindu Temple Complex of Prasat Muang Tum is located in Prakhon Chai District of Buri Rum Province in northeastern Thailand. The name Muang Tum refers to the lowlands in which the temple is situated. Architectural aspects exhibit the Khleang and Baphuon styles. #blackandwhitephotography

Wax castle under the applied art category by Wat Si Sumung temple community. The wax castle won fourth prize (third runner-up) at the Wax Castle Festival of Sakon Nakhon 2025. Exhibited at the Sakon Nakhon Provincial Centre from 2 to 6 October 2025. #streetphotography #Asia

Sallika belonged to a tribe of bird-people who grew gardenias on their wings. Hers were a blending of porcelain clay and coconut cream that exaggerated its own milkiness, depending on her mood. When she was happy, the colour would embody a butter consistency churned amidst musical winds. #BraveWrite

The Gian Anh Geng Shrine located in the Kudee Jeen Community (Bangkok, Thailand). Wooden relief masterpieces are exhibited just below the ceiling outside the shrine's entrance. It is believed that the images depict scenes from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". #streetphotography #architecture

Lilies — turned black-and-white by a kiss of shadows — open into silk carriages upon a spring. The leaves form a sheet sewn with threads dyed in such heartbroken beauty that the blood turns to ink. Spirits of aquatic dancers model the last gowns soaked through a thousand ages of oyster gray. #vss365

Centuries have faded the waters, along with any crustacean and molluscan inhabitants. Breaking through unmerciful hands of time rubbing into the wooden flesh, mermaid’s hair rises from the #dark truffle swamp, lotus stems entangled like a mythical past rough-weaving through the surface mind. #vss365

Local rulers glorified foreign skills and expertise; they smiled as they plotted to crush these foreigners. But there was still tea. The honour of samurai blood — however torn by human weakness — was killed by the fire of control that spread from the Ayutthaya court. But there was still tea. #vss365

Tea — a liquid that heals #wounds; that pours into a humble cup, yet silenced by worldly action. In the tea, the shapeless becomes defined by a nurturing heat, like afternoon shadows on a garden wall. Differentiation between history and imagination melts through the rising of perfumed steam. #vss365

Winds of longing blow through a bamboo hollow, feeling the thickness of the plant, the quivering blades. Perhaps, it is a search for dragon strength hiding within stem wall and satin gold sheath, something to lean on when the mind grows exhausted, and ancient waters have changed their state. #vss365

From freshly poured tea, a wish emerges with the steam. There is no longer a cusp between lives once lived and the life appearing in sleep — one due to be born when this current life ends. Timelines interweave the threads of after-perfume, swimming in balletic turns within an eternal teacup. #vss365

Water lilies at Uncle Jam's Lotus Field (Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand). #landscapephotography #garden

To drink tea is to bend physical laws, to escape into mist of grassland in-betweenness. The solitary becomes a traveller of layered timelines and undiscovered pathways, just as a full teacup holds a moon-like purity, an all-inclusive emptiness. A rain-flooded garden basin becomes a universe. #vss365

'Khon' youth dance-drama theatre; performed at the Phranakhonkhiri Starry Night (Night Museum Festival); Pra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park (Phetchaburi, Thailand); photographed on 27 December 2025. #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography

Mural with stucco relief foundation exhibited in the chapel of Wat Bang Ka Pawm (Samut Songkhram, Thailand). Mural images feature scenes from daily lives of locals, reflecting cultural perspectives and folk knowledge of the villagers during the time that the chapel was built. #archaeology #mythology

Paintings covering the wooden ceiling and upper panels of the main sermon hall, depicting ‘yaksa’ ogres, simians (monkey humanoids), ‘rishi’ hermits, and a range of deities; located within the temple compound of Wat Pradu (Samut Songkhram, Thailand). #streetphotography #Asia

Paintings covering the wooden ceiling and upper panels of the main sermon hall, depicting ‘yaksa’ ogres, simians (monkey humanoids), ‘rishi’ hermits, and a range of deities; located within the temple compound of Wat Pradu (Samut Songkhram, Thailand). #streetphotography #Asia

Paintings covering the wooden ceiling and upper panels of the main sermon hall, depicting ‘yaksa’ ogres, simians (monkey humanoids), ‘rishi’ hermits, and a range of deities; located within the temple compound of Wat Pradu (Samut Songkhram, Thailand). #streetphotography #Asia

'Khon' youth dance-drama theatre; performed at the Phranakhonkhiri Starry Night (Night Museum Festival); Pra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park (Phetchaburi, Thailand); photographed on 27 December 2025. #streetphotography #Asia

'Khon' youth dance-drama theatre; performed at the Phranakhonkhiri Starry Night (Night Museum Festival); Pra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park (Phetchaburi, Thailand); photographed on 27 December 2025. #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography

'Khon' youth dance-drama theatre; performed at the Phranakhonkhiri Starry Night (Night Museum Festival); Pra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park (Phetchaburi, Thailand); photographed on 27 December 2025. #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography

Wax castle under the applied art category by Wat Sapan Sri temple community. The wax castle won second prize (first runner-up) at the Wax Castle Festival of Sakon Nakhon 2025. Exhibited at the Sakon Nakhon Provincial Centre from 2 to 6 October 2025. #streetphotography #Asia

Wax castle under the applied art category by Wat Sapan Sri temple community. The wax castle won second prize (first runner-up) at the Wax Castle Festival of Sakon Nakhon 2025. Exhibited at the Sakon Nakhon Provincial Centre from 2 to 6 October 2025. #streetphotography #Asia

Wax castle under the applied art category by Wat Sapan Sri temple community. The wax castle won second prize (first runner-up) at the Wax Castle Festival of Sakon Nakhon 2025. Exhibited at the Sakon Nakhon Provincial Centre from 2 to 6 October 2025. #streetphotography #Asia

Chinese opera performance by the Sai Yong Hong Company; Ta Din Daeng Market, Soi 11 (Bangkok, Thailand); 6 December 2025. #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography