Author Archives: Boon.Vong
Atlanta Greek Festival 2024 Photos
Atlanta Greek Festival 2024 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral | Atlanta, GA | Sept 20, 2024 Had a great time at the Atlanta Greek Festival. Here are my photos from a Friday! I can only imagine how fun Saturday was. Thanks to everyone for posing, and being so welcoming to me. Such an amazing community. Friendship, […]
Continue readingDunwoody Latino Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2024 Photos
Dunwoody Latino Hispanic Heritage Celebration Ashford Lane | September 15, 2024www.dunwoodyga.gov | www.createdunwoody.org Featuring: Peruvian Cultural Association | Aklla Sumaq Dancers • Corners Outreach Singers • Games with Lisa Torres • Caló Gitano Dance Studio • Ballet Folklorico Alma Mexicana • Los Niños Primero • Teatro Ilegal Whole World Improv Theatre • Veronica Gleasson • […]
Continue readingAtlanta International Night Market Photos – Lawrenceville – 2024-09-13
Atlanta International Night Market Photos | Friday Sept 13, 2024 | Lawrenceville, GA A quick set of photos from the Atlanta International Night Market in Lawrenceville (where I live!). The rain and windy weather didn’t keep these festival goers from experiencing all the food! … These photos are from a short stay on Saturday, there […]
Continue readingAtlanta Dragon Boat Festival 2024 Photos
Hong Kong Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival (From the Lao perspective!) 🙂 Gainesville, GA | September 7, 2024 Another fun time at the Atlanta Dragon Boat festival up in Gainesville. We’ve been participating / competing / dancing at this great event for such a long time now. In fact, the “throwback” shirt that I’m wearing is […]
Continue readingNew Suwanee Town Center Park at Sunset
Big thanks to Vivian and Sean for coming over to hang out! Showing some of the images we got on the adventure in reverse, because at the end of the day we were blessed with a pretty great sunset at the new Suwanee Park. It took a late evening rain storm, but that’s usually how […]
Continue readingCanon R8 Sample Photos + Portraits + Mini Review
I added a Canon EOS R8 for some work situations because it’s the only affordable mirrorless camera with a usable silent shutter. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. After all these years I still don’t have a Nikon FF mirrorless because the older Nikon DSLRs still produce top notch images, and their files work perfectly in […]
Continue readingNew Suwanee Town Center Park
Hello everyone, the new Suwanee park is open. Town Center on Main is near old Town Center, in between the fire station, library and little kid’s playground. It’s pretty modern and fancy. There’s a big reflection pool, but with the tree line and elevation it might be hard to get some sunsets. The bridge though […]
Continue readingAfroNerd Culture Con – Charlie’s Collectible Show
AfroNerd Culture Con Charlie’s Collectible Show | 6009 Memorial Dr | Stone Mountain, GA | August 8, 2024 Finally made it out to Charlie’s Collectibles in Stone Mnt, off Memorial Drive. This is such a cool place. Imagine an antique mall, but every stall and vendor is pop culture, anime, comics, and video game, etc […]
Continue readingTwo Fish Myanmar Cuisine – Clarkston, GA
Two Fish(In Clarkston Market)980 Rowland St Suite 4130Clarkston, GA 30021 Open Every day except Sundays | 404-980-1643 We tried the Burmese restaurant, Two Fish Myanmar Cuisine, in Clarkston for dinner. Clarkston, GA is one of the most diverse small towns in all of America, being the starting point for many refugees and immigrants. Lao people […]
Continue readingHmong Day 2024
Hmong Day 2024 Hmong Women Resource Alliance Victor Lord Park | Winder, GA | July 27, 2024 What a great event for the Hmong community last Saturday. There were free snacks and lunch for guests, and most importantly, free school supplies and a focus on the importance of education. Almost all the vendors were small […]
Continue readingFil-Am – Sayaw Himig – Cultural Performances
Sayaw Himig Cultural Dances and Performances Presented by Fil-Am Heritage Foundation and the Filipino-American Association of Greater Atlanta Gas South Theater | Duluth, GA | July 20, 2024 ◈━◈━◈━◈━◈ Featuring: Bibak Southeast • FAA of Columbus GA • Fil-Am of Greater Atlanta • Kayumanggi Rondalla • Joseph Legaspi • Mabuhay Performing Arts of AL • […]
Continue readingWorld Refugee Day – Clarkston, GA 2024
World Refugee Day – Clarkston, GA 2024 Clarkston Community Center | June 22, 2024 Coalition of Refugee Service Agencies (CRSA) ︶︶⊹︶︶⠀ꕤ⠀︶︶⊹︶︶ Featuring Atlanta Awesome Drummers (Korea) • Laotian American Society (LAS) • Eritrean Coffee Ceremony • Clarkston High School Orchestra • South Sudan Dance • GA Power Production Congolese Dance Group • International Fashion Show […]
Continue readingCar Meet – Tint World – Lawrenceville – 2024-06
The other day I stopped by a cruise in before heading out to grab some Chinese food for dinner. Lots of nice cars and bikes! It was great chatting with everyone. I’ll plan on coming back, since during the summer it seems like folks disappear or have other plans–but there’s always a car meet somewhere, […]
Continue readingMichelle’s Graduation Party – VIP Hall – Buford, GA
Michelle (and Tiffany’s!) GraduationVIP Event Hall | Buford, GA | June 8, 2024 BONUS PHOTOS I also brought along an ancient Nikon Coolpix 3700 from 2003! This little digicam is older than the graduate! 😭 Here are some unfiltered photos that 20 years ago would have been right at home on a myspace […]
Continue readingBunsa’s Graduation – New Canton House – Duluth, GA
Canton House 2 | Duluth, GA | June 1, 2024
Continue readingLao New Year 2024 – Murfreesboro TN – Sunday Photos
∼ LAO NEW YEAR ∽Wat Lao Buddharam ︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Murfreesboro, TN | Sunday May 26, 2024 Event Coverage by Boon Vong. Yes I took all these photos except 1. 🙂 Photo credits/link back please if you use my images! Featuring: RLCD Royal Lao Classical Dancers • Kon Lao Loon Mai • LAS Laotian American Society (Atlanta) […]
Continue reading10th Annual 2024 GAPABA Gala Photos
GAPABA 10th Gala Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Associationwww.gapaba.org May 29, 2024 | Ga Aquarium | Atlanta, GA >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< A selection of photos. Event coverage by Boon Vong + Phalatda Taysavang. Please keep up with GAPABA’s social media for the full set (and higher res photos)! […]
Continue readingAPAC Gala 2024 Photos
39th APAC Gala Asian Pacific American Coalition of Georgia May 11 2024 | Sonesta | Duluth, GA Event Photography by Boon Vong (as a guest!). Yes I cover events professionally. 😉 I had the beef. Like all hotel food for galas it was okay. Luckily at the table we had some papaya salad leftover!! There […]
Continue readingSuwanee Asian Heritage Celebration – AANHPI – May 11, 2024
Suwanee AANHPI Heritage Celebration Town Center︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Suwanee GA | Saturday May 11, 2024 Celebrating Asian Heritage month in our own backyard of Suwanee! Only had time to stop by and cover for a few hours. Featuring performances by: Lion Dance • Phayanak Dance Crew • Laotian American Society Saturday was full of events as usual, […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2024 – Saturday Photos – Wat Buddha Khanti
∼ LAO NEW YEAR ∽ Wat Lao Buddha Khanti ︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Snellville / Stone Mountain GA | Saturday April 20, 2024 Hello everyone, I’ve freely shared my photos with our amazing community for many years now. There are no ads on my website. I don’t make money on page views. I do this thing solo. It […]
Continue readingI Shot some 35mm Color Film at Lao New Year
For this Lao New Year season I thought it would be neat to shoot some color negative film at some of the festivals. Partly to stand out, partly because it’s “fun,” and probably just because I need to scratch that itch to remind myself of why digital is so amazing/superior/better and this is why we […]
Continue readingWhere to develop 35mm Film in Atlanta?
Updated for 2026 ▛▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝ ▜ To the best of my knowledge, here are the few remaining spots where you can get your film developed in Atlanta. (I’m not considering Walgreens/Walmart or similar places because they pretty much don’t give you back your negatives, just prints or scanned photos uploaded somewhere) Some of these places I […]
Continue readingOlympus Stylus Epic Zoom 170 Roll 5&6 + Fujifilm
It took a year but I finally finished the roll of Fuji Superia 400 that I had in the Olympus Stylus. I scanned these on the Epson V550 and left some of the dust and scratches in some of the frames for that authentic nostalgia. The randomness of lint and crud on film photos really […]
Continue readingLao New Year – Conley, GA 2024 – Saturday Photos
∽ Lao New Year ∼ Wat Lao PothisaramConley, GA | April 27, 2024 •───────•°•❀•°•───────• I was only able to attend on Saturday, but here are a few images. Thanks to all the ladies volunteering your valuable time, everyone looked great. Also thanks to my “assistants” for helping take photos! 🙂 ‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿ The following extra […]
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