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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 • […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Canton House 2 | Duluth, GA | June 1, 2024
∼ 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) […]
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)! […]
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 […]
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, […]
∼ 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 […]
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 […]
The other day I drove all the way to Douglasville GA to try out a new (to me) place for some film development, The Photo Spot. I say all the way because as the old meme says, “Atlanta is 1 Hour from Atlanta.” For the last couple of weeks here in the metro area traffic […]
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 […]
∽ 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
~ 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]