[ ROSS — You have shot this island more than almost anyone. This post should feel like insider knowledge from a photographer who lives here, not a travel blog list. Pick your actual favourite spots — the ones tourists don't find, the ones that only work at a specific time of day, the ones that produced your best frames. Name them specifically. Add the time of day and why. This will rank well and drive genuine traffic. ]
There are the beaches everyone photographs — the ones on the Instagram explore page, the ones the longtail operators drop tourists at between ten and two. Those beaches are genuinely beautiful. They are also genuinely full of people with their backs to the light holding up phones.
These are not those places.
[ Location 1 — your choice ]
[ Name it, describe how to get there, what time of day works and why, what you have shot there or what the light does. Be specific — compass direction of the light, whether it is better in the dry or wet season, what the access is like. ]
[ Location 2 — your choice ]
[ Same approach. A mix of well-known and hidden is ideal — validates that you know the obvious ones but trust your reader with the less obvious. ]
[ Location 3 — your choice ]
[ Consider including one that is not a beach — a forest path, a viewpoint, the market at a specific moment, the gallery street at dawn. The unexpected location is always the most memorable part of a post like this. ]
A note on the light
[ This is your expertise. Talk about the quality of light on Koh Phangan specifically — what makes it different, what time of year it peaks, what the wet season does that the dry season doesn't. This is the section no travel blog can write and you can. ]
— Ross Silcocks is a filmmaker and director of photography based on Koh Phangan. His photography is available through Spirit House Gallery.
