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Lumir Pecold works as a photographer, graphic artist and a freelance journalist. He publishes in the magazines and cooperates with Czech Radio and TV. He has written and made photos for the books: "Travels Underground" (stories about speleological expeditions), "The North" (expeditions, adventure travels and wandering through the north of Europe), "The Caucasus" (a guidebook to the wonderful mountain range offering a plenty of outdoor activities and adventure travels, "Russland" (in German, published by Bruckmann, Munich). He collaborated with Vladimir Tkac on the book "The UNESCO Monuments - Central Europe", for which he also delivered the illustrations and a graphic layout. In 1997 he provided 60 photos for the calendar called "The UNESCO Monuments" and was a co-author of 12 television documentaries dealing with the monuments of UNESCO. He took part - as a photographer, driver, guide and interpreter - in the extensive project of "Sowjetunion quer durch" for Badenia Verlag, the German publishing house. In the years 1996 and 1997 he photographed for the company of INNOVA from the USA and/or worked as a photographer and picture advisor for the software company of Microsoft, seated in Seattle. His photos can be found in the promotional materials for the companies of Gumotex, Kammsport, Meindl, Jansport, BayWa and others.
Lumir Pecold has travelled through all Europe, Cuba, the USA including Alaska, Canada and a great part of Western Asia. During the speleological expeditions he worked with the British speleologists in the Picos de Europe in Spain, took part in the explorations of the Crimean Karst in the Ukraine, worked in the second longest cave in the world, "The Optimistic Cave" in the Ukraine and was a member of the expedition in Georgia, during which the second deepest abyss on Earth (The Abyss of Vjanceslav Pantuchina, the Bzyb Range) was discovered.
Lumir Pecold has visited many times the Caucasus Mountains as a guide for expeditions of sportsmen, nature scientists and etnographers, mainly to the regions of Svanetia, Khevsuretia, Osetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and others. He worked in the Transcaucasian countries of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbajdan as well.
He crisscrossed all the states of the Ex-USSR, photographed the reindeer herdsmen below the Ural mountains in the winter, travelled on skis over the frozen White Sea and on horse in the Altai Mountains. In 2000 he produced the TV documentaries on the UNESCO monuments in Georgia, Armenia and Turkey. In 2001 he was photographing and filming wolves and bears close to the USA-Canada border.
Lumir Pecold has visited a lot of mountain ranges as a climber, accompanied the nature scientists in the Caribbean region and Turkey, hitchhiked and travelled on foot in the Gobi desert in Mongolia, sailed on Baikal Lake and the Adriatic Sea, did rafting on the whitewater rivers and kayaking through the straits of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Lumir Pecold has produced a plenty of documentaries, among them a promotional film on the construction of the gas treatment station in Russia, Komi, for the companies of Škoda JS and Elmatherm, or the educational film on the construction of the landfill in Ostrava, which obtained the prize of the Czech Ministry of Environment.
Since the year 2000, Lumir Pecold has been collecting the film and photo material concerning the European traditions. The project resulted in two documentaries on Easter and Christmas traditions for the Czech TV and mainly in the book "Festivals and Rituals", describing fifty two fascinating events throughout the year.
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