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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘Phuket is waiting for you, guys!’: Tavepong Pratoomwong’s best phone picture

Photograph of people photographing low-flying plane over beach
Mai Khao Beach, 2017, shot on Sony Xperia X. Photograph: Tavepong Pratoomwong

Joined by his wife Mai and daughter Milan, street photographer Tavepong Pratoomwong was on holiday in Phuket, a 90-minute flight from their home town of Bangkok, when he took this photo. He’d heard that the nearby Mai Khao beach – the longest on the island – was a great place to watch planes landing and taking off from the airport close by, so the trio set off from their hotel.

“Milan was only five and we found out pretty quickly that the plane noises scared her, so Mai took her back to the hotel while I took some shots.”

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