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Lao New Year 2025 Murfreesboro, TN Photos – Set 3
Wat Lao Buddharam 5214 Old Nashville Hwy, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Sunday May 25, 2025 ︵‿︵‿❀‿︵‿︵ Part I is Here: Portraits and Color (Nikon) Part II is Here: Parade and People (Canon) Part IV is Here: Royal Lao Classical Dancers Part III: Partay
Continue readingLao New Year 2025 Murfreesboro, TN Photos – Set 2
Wat Lao Buddharam 5214 Old Nashville Hwy, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Sunday May 25, 2025 ︵‿︵‿❀‿︵‿︵ Part I is Here: Portraits and Color (Nikon) Part III is Here: Partay Part IV is Here: Royal Lao Classical Dancers Part II: Parade and People (Canon) Sabaidee everyone! Here are the photos of the parade festivities from my other […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2025 Murfreesboro, TN Photos – Set 1 – Nikon 200mm f2
Wat Lao Buddharam 5214 Old Nashville Hwy, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Sunday May 25, 2025 ︵‿︵‿❀‿︵‿︵ Sabaidee everyone! Here are some of my photos from another huge turnout for Lao New Year up in Murfreesboro, TN. As usual I took several cameras up there, and I’m going to split up my posts. This first set will […]
Continue reading11th Annual 2025 GAPABA Gala Photos
GAPABA 11th Gala Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Associationwww.gapaba.org May 21, 2025 | Oceans Ballroom GA Aquarium | Atlanta, GA >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< Event coverage by Boon Vong + Donald Douglas Another great packed event for the Southeast’s premier Bar Association Please keep up with GAPABA’s social media […]
Continue reading11th Annual 2025 GAPABA Gala – Backdrop Photos
GAPABA 11th Gala Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Associationwww.gapaba.org May 21, 2025 | Oceans Ballroom GA Aquarium | Atlanta, GA
Continue readingOlympus E-M1 Photo Story Mode
It’s been rumored that Fujifilm will soon release a new “half frame” digital camera with a vertical sensor. That’s a pretty cool feature, daring to be different and promoting the artistic idea of diptychs. (placing two somewhat related/unrelated images together and having that interplay evoke more studying or pondering over a composition that would otherwise […]
Continue reading(Glitchy) Canon S200 Elph – Sample Photos
This lovely vintage Canon S200 Elph digicam was thrifted out in New Mexico! Seeing as how these things are snatched up so quick by savvy resellers I’m glad we visited the store at the right time. This ancient 2 Megapixel imager came with a 256MB (yes Megabytes!) CF card that still had some photos from […]
Continue readingPanasonic Lumix FZ30 – Samples
I got this in the other day, a really affordable Lumix (Panasonic) superzoom digicam from 2005! This class of camera was designated informally as a bridge camera, the ones you bought if you didn’t like the smaller party digicams or didn’t want to invest in an early gen DSLR from the early 2000s. These things […]
Continue readingAAPI VIBE FEST – Photos and Recap
AAPI VIBE FEST Duluth, GA | May 10, 2025 | www.asianvibefest.com Featuring: None Like Joshua • DJ NINJ3FF3C7 • SunAm Dance Crew • Magic Eastern Ensemble • Caveman Band • MyGration Band • Chariots Overdrive Band Event Coverage by: Boon Vong It was a horrible day weather wise, but the show must go on! Too […]
Continue readingCCS – Free Comic Book Day! 2025
Charlie’s Collectible Show | 6009 Memorial Dr | Stone Mountain, GA | IG | FB May 3, 2025 My hit points still weren’t re charged from my trip but I stopped by the shop on Sat for a couple of free comic books! Great catching up with everyone. Thanks for my pristine white Mint/Ex+++ official CCS hoodie!
Continue readingNikon 200mm f/2 VR Portraits – Set 1
A collection of my portraits (from late Nov ’24 to Apr ’25) created with the Nikon 200mm f/2 VR. This lens was designed for sports photography, but seriously, it’s one of the best portrait lenses due to its clarity and rendering of backgrounds.
Continue readingCanon SX100 IS Digicam Sample Photos
Canon SX100 IS Digicam | Shot with a Nikon D4, edited with my “anime preset” 😉 I bought this camera a few years back for something like $15? I forget exactly, just like how I forgot to do a dedicated post on it. I like this camera a lot. It’s small, takes 2 AA batteries […]
Continue readingFujifilm GFX 50S + (Broken) Nikon 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
Back in February I bought this used super cheap Nikon 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 zoom lens manufactured in the 90’s. It was Nikon’s first attempt at an affordable kit lens with the early batch of consumer autofocus film cameras back in the day. This lens is small, about the size of a modern F mount 50mm 1.8G! […]
Continue readingMore ZNO Mini Accordion Photo Books
I ordered some more ZNO 3×3″ Mini Accordion photos books last month. Some to keep, and some for gifts. I just checked the website and the prices are still the same, but I did notice the shipping was a bit more than normal. These products do come all the way from China, so who knows […]
Continue readingEverything Out West in the Desert Reminded Me of a Videogame
Hello everyone, I just got back from a trip out in the American West and I couldn’t help but compare it to the video games I’ve played in my life. This amazing ancient land was first held by the indigenous peoples (Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and others), and then came Spanish conquerors, and then the Atomic […]
Continue readingHanging Out – Asian Festival Hopping!
I wasn’t planning on doing anything the rest of my Saturday, but ended up hanging out and running into friends (old and new) at the various Asian festivals! Tonight I thought I would unveil my DV camcorder plus iPhone capturing the back LCD screen to record vertical bts shots! (The setup isn’t too complicated I […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2025 – Wat Buddha Khanti – Snellville, GA – Sunday Photos – Part 1
~ LAO NEW YEAR ∽ Wat Lao Buddha Khanti ︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Snellville / Stone Mountain GA | Sunday April 20, 2025 -ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- Sabaidee everyone, here are 100 photo highlights while I work on the rest. I’ve been really behind on things, and normally I post photo recaps with waaay more images, but hopefully these […]
Continue readingHanging Out – Random Wednesday Adventure
Late post, but it was a fun random hangout the other day. Sorry I’ve been bouncing around with the short posts, I’ve been really behind on event recaps! I. But first…using vintage cameras in my ancient technology room! The photos with the timestamp are from the Nikon Coolpix 3700. For this one I dusted off […]
Continue readingAtlanta International Night Market – Suwanee 2025 Fri Highlights
AINM Suwanee + Be: Max Concert and Cultural Performances (I was there at the tail end of Saturday, and yep this festival brought in tens of thousands of people!)
Continue readingLao New Year 2025 – Riverdale, GA
~ Lao New Year ∽ Wat Lao Buddhamoongcoon ︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Riverdale, GA | Sunday, April 13, 2025 It was a fun day in Riverdale. Thanks to Bre, Thomas, and others for the collab photo coverage. Today I brought the big 200mm lens, and some other ancient camera technology!! Sadly the 1 Megapixel Sony floppy disk camera […]
Continue readingLao New Year Practice 2025 – Stone Mnt GA
Lao New Year Practice -ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- Wat Lao Buddhakhanti | Stone Mountain, GA I was in the neighborhood this past Sunday so I thought I would stop by! Here are my photos without meddling too much in the LNY Practice for the upcoming event on April 19-20th. So crazy how I’ve been here this […]
Continue readingNikon 200mm f/2G VR – Spring Blossoms and Portraits
What an outrageous combo the D700 and 200mm f/2 is! I’ve been having fun with it on my morning walks this spring and the occasional portrait session when I have my STR/STAMINA points maxed out for the day. From a beauty and technical level this might be the best lens I have, since it draws […]
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