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Dunwoody AAPI Celebration 2024 Photos
Asian American & Pacific IslanderCultural Heritage Celebration April 28, 2024 | Ashford Lane City of Dunwoody GAwww.dunwoodyga.gov ✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯Featuring Souliya Natasinh Laotian American Society • Asian Games – Hacky Sack and Chopsticks • FASCA • Korean Traditional Dance Academy • Karenni Dance • Japanese Flower Arranging – Ikenobo Ikebana • Karate Atlanta Dunwoody • Indian […]
Continue readingTucker Cruise In – April, 2024
Really nice weather and start for the year’s first Tucker Cruise In. If you’re looking for something to do every second Saturday of the month, please come out between 10am and 1pm. And come early to get some grilled burgers and hot dogs for cheap! For this show I wasn’t too focused on a specific […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2024 – Wat Buddha Khanti – Snellville / Stone Mountain, GA – Sunday Photos
It was super cold and raining in the morning, and that threw off the flow of the events for Sunday, but it still turned out nice and festive at the end! Here’s a photo story from my perspective. Wanted to shoot film and other things, but that weather was a bummer. Great performances and display […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2024 – Stone Mountain – Saturday Preview Photos – Wat Buddha Khanti
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 costs me time and resources for web hosting. My site is an archive of the cool and lovely things that […]
Continue readingProm Dunwoody – 2024-04-19
Villa Christina | April 19, 2024 Congrats to all the students, everyone looked great! I randomized the picture order to simulate the fun/chaos of being at this prom supershoot! Feel free to use the photos however you want, with photo credit please! Thanks to everyone for posing, and sorry if I missed a few. There’s […]
Continue readingLao New Year – Riverdale GA 2024
~ Lao New Year ∽ Wat Lao Buddhamoongcoon ︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Riverdale, GA | Sunday, April 14, 2024 That was a fun “low key” Lao New Year/Boun Pimay at Wat Riverdale on Sunday. Thanks to Aaliyah and Brianna for being the first models of the day! 😉 Great performances by the LDA Lao Dance Association, it was […]
Continue reading20 Years of Lao New Year? How did that happen?
Hello everyone, I just realized something today while going through photos. I’ve been taking pictures at the various Lao New Year festivals for 20 years now(!). Yes, that is truly insane to think about. The above photo is from Stone Mountain on April 18 of 2004 and the bottom photo was this past Sunday at […]
Continue readingMiss Cambodia Georgia – CAAG – 2024
Miss Cambodia Georgia Pageant Cambodian American Association of Georgia www.cambodia-ga.org April 16, 2024 | I Luv Bowling Event Space | Duluth, GA Thanks for the invite, glad I got to attend! Congrats to all the brave ladies that competed, it’s definitely a tough thing to put yourself up for judging! Everyone did great with their […]
Continue readingNikon 85mm 1.4D + GFX 50S
Last week I thought I would give this combo another try–a now “vintage” Nikon 85mm 1.4D adapted to the GFX with the simple dummy adapter. Last year I wasn’t too keen on the 67mm “equivalent” focal length when mounted on the medium format GFX sensor, but for this colorful spring I thought it would be […]
Continue readingVintage Cameras in the Spring
These are from a few weeks ago, but I wanted some nice “product” photos of some of my vintage cameras. Just nice to have, and it always makes me appreciate the design and styling of these photographic tools. And yes the Polaroid 100 still has a pack of Fuji FP-100C in it, a rare and […]
Continue readingThai New Year – Wat Buddha Bucha 2024
Wat Buddha Bucha Thai New Year Songkran April 7, 2024 | Decatur, GA The L/T/C New Year “season” here in Georgia normally begins at the Thai temple and runs all the way to Memorial Day(!) when folks everywhere congregate up in TN. Today had brisk cool weather and a large turnout for the alms giving […]
Continue readingHoli Color Festival – Dunwoody, GA 2024
Holi Color Festival Dunwoody Brook Run Park | March 24, 2024 www.worldmusicusa.com What a wonderful show of music, fun, and color! Great turnout for the first ever Holi celebration in Dunwoody. Thanks to everyone who asked for photos and chatted with me! UPDATE! 2025 PHOTOS HERE! Seems my photo post has a second life and […]
Continue readingChùa Hải Ấn Temple in the Spring 2024
This is how the Vietnamese Buddhisht temple Chùa Hải Ấn looked yesterday–amazingly pretty with all their flowering fruit trees. I remember photographing the construction process of the worship hall last year in the late spring and saw that they had a ton of trees that would probably be nice in peak bloom. This year I […]
Continue readingWhat’s Blooming at Chattooga Belle Farm – Late March 2024
It was a lovely brisk morning at Chattooga Belle farm. The peach blossoms here were almost peak, but the ones back in Georgia are pretty much fading and turning into green leaves. So cool to see the flowering Asian pears too. Will have to try all these fruits, including the blueberries and crispy apples during […]
Continue readingAthens Botanical Garden in the Spring – March 2024
The UGA themed tulips was a nice touch at the State Botanical Garden in Athens. Really nice weather today and lots of folks in town and around campus. The city has definitely grown a sizeable amount since I was there. If only we could go back to those simpler days of getting $3 slices of […]
Continue readingPeppermint Flowering Peach Tree Might be my Favorite
The peppermint flowering peach tree might be the most visually striking in my opinion. It’s crazy to see the blossoms coming right out of a sapling not even two feet high. The color palette matches my good old foldable bike too. We’ll see if the film photos I also shot on my Olympus Stylus turn […]
Continue readingCherry Blossoms in Bloom – 2024-03-10
Cherry blossoms (both the pure white and pink ones) are pretty much in full bloom right now in Georgia. Which bodes well for the festival down in Macon if you’re heading down there. If I recall it’s always been tough in recent years for the parade and festivities to perfectly line up with mother nature. […]
Continue readingSpring in Georgia + GFX
Model: Amanda | Gear: GFX and Nikon 50mm 1.8 Ai-S The dynamic range and tones available in the GFX raw files are something else. Really a lot of latitude to pull back highlights in skies.
Continue readingOkame Cherry Tree Portraits + Hangout
Model: Chau | Gear: Sony + Canon Lens / Canon + Nikon Lens (yes both setups manual focus on purpose) These okame cherry trees are the first to bloom in Georgia. Sometimes as early as the first week in February, when it’s still pretty cold. There used to be a more purple one on the […]
Continue readingSpring Photos + Nikon D5300
Model: Chau | Lenses: 18-55mm kit lens and 105mm 2.8 Micro (Nikon J1 for the product shots) I would have to say I’m really enjoying using this “consumer” camera. The Nikon colors really show up well on the LCD with the brightness at max and +2/3 EV. Like all Nikons the default metering almost always […]
Continue readingWhat’s Blooming in Georgia? – 2024-03-04
Here’s what’s blooming in early springtime in Georgia (Gwinnett!) right now. What’s typical weather wise is just yesterday it got really hot when I was admiring the flowering peach trees (the almond tree was well past peak). Now the cold rain today and tomorrow will probably knock down many blossoms. The other fruit trees have […]
Continue readingSpring in Georgia 2024 + Fuji
Here’s what was in bloom the weekend of Feb 18-20th. It’s been a late spring this year, as I remember these Norcross Okame Cherry trees blooming the first week of Feb last year. It’s been cooler with plenty of rainy days thus far.
Continue readingTurning all My Old Cameras into Remote Cameras
The other day I thought it would be cool to turn all my old cameras into remote cameras that I could place in certain spots when I cover events–locations where it would be much easier to click a remote button as opposed to walking across the room and disrupting the flow of an event. So […]
Continue readingHoi Cho Tet Atlanta 2024 – Mrs Viet Photos
HỘI CHỢ TẾT ATLANTA TẾT FESTIVAL Mrs NÉT ĐẸP VIỆT NAM February 10, 2024 | Space Ballroom
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