Category Archives: Lao Thai Khmer New Year
Wat Lao Khambounheuang – Baldwin, GA
Wat Lao Buddharam Khambounheuang Baldwin, GA | June 8, 2025 ⊹︵︵︵ ❀ ︵︵︵ ⊹ Just a quick stop by at the Baldwin temple on Sunday. This was a mere half day after that big storm rolled through Georgia. The rainbow circus tent that’s normally in the middle was whisked away, and in seeing the videos […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2025 TN Photos – Set 4 – RLCD
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 III is Here: Partay Part IV: Royal Lao Classical Dancers www.instagram.com/rlcd_tnwww.tiktok.com/@rlcd_tn Royal Lao Classical Dancers www.instagram.com/rlcd_tnwww.tiktok.com/@rlcd_tn
Continue readingLao New Year 2025 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 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 TN Photos + 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 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 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 readingLao / Thai / Cambodian New Year Dates 2025 – Atlanta, GA and SE US
Sabaidee everyone, as is now tradition, here’s a working list of some of the Lao / Thai / Khmer New Year Festival events this season (in the Atlanta area and SE US at least!). As of this posting, the dates are correct to the best of my knowledge, but always do your own checking of […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 readingLao / Thai / Cambodian New Year Dates 2024 – Atlanta, GA and SE US
Hello everyone, here’s a working list of some of the Lao / Thai / Khmer New Year Festival events this season (in the SE US at least). As of this posting, the dates are correct to the best of my knowledge, but always do your own checking of the various social media sites to see […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2023 at Wat Buddharam – Murfreesboro, TN – Sunday Photos
Sabaidee 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 readingLao New Year 2023 at Wat Buddharam – Murfreesboro, TN – Video
Lao New Year at Wat Buddharam – Murfreesboro, TNSunday May 28, 2023 ( The photo slideshow begins at the 48:00 minute mark ) I took a day trip to Tennessee for the last and quite possibly the BIGGEST Lao New Year festival in the US! What an impressive showing of culture and fun from so […]
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