Worship Car Show Photos – Roswell – 7-2025

July 6, 2025 | Target Parking Lot | Roswell, GA Pretty great turnout for this monthly car show. It is also the first Sunday of the month, and a bit closer for me instead of going all the way up to Caffeine and Octane.  Plus it’s right up the street from the Trader Joe’s, which […]

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Santa Fe, New Mexico – Pt. 2

Santa Fe, New Mexico is a lovely town.  It’s got color, komorebi, and chiaroscuro maxed out for sure.  So many contemporary art galleries too, with a few having work that would be at home on the east coast instead of out in the desert. This area has a much later spring than us too, and […]

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Peachtree Corners Car Meet – 6-2025

Peachtree Corners Car Meet Fire and Stone Pizza and Peachtree Corners Town Center | June 29, 2025 The brutal hot sun this morning was making me feel awful, so I didn’t stay long! But here are my photos edited to give the vibe of that harsh sunlight. What a nice collection of cars.

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Summer Sunrises

I’ve been getting up before dawn for a couple of personal projects, here are some photos from some recent sunrises.  And yes, it’s still quite hot and muggy at that hour… … …

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Atlanta International Night Market 2017 Photos – Throwback!

Atlanta International Night Market 2017 Photos: Pleasant Hill Mall and Northlake Mall I can’t believe these photos are from 8 years ago. Crazy.  I don’t think I blogged or posted much of my work here in 2017, so here’s a throwback! April 21, 2017 | AINM Gwinnett Place Mall November 5, 2017 | AINM Northlake […]

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Atlanta International Night Market – Chamblee 2025 – Saturday Photo Story

Atlanta International Night Market Chamblee, GA | June 28, 2025 www.atlnightmarket.org Performances: DJ EZZY B • Vince the Voice • Ankita Jaikumar • Laotian American Society (LAS) • Colorful Hat Circus • Damali Bacchus • Ntxhais Hmoob Kajsiab • Alex Ahn ‿︵•‿︵(🌞ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)‿︵•‿︵ Event coverage by Boon Vong ‚‘⚡‘‚⚡‚‘⛈️‚‘⚡‘‚⚡‚‘ Hello everyone, thanks for the views on […]

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Atlanta International Night Market – Chamblee 2025 – Friday’s Photo Highlights

Atlanta International Night Market Chamblee, GA | June 27, 2025 www.atlnightmarket.org Friday Photo Highlights… Before and after the thunderstorms (and hail!) came yet again. Ok summer you can calm down now. 😉 ‿︵•‿︵(🌞ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)‿︵•‿︵ Event coverage by Boon Vong ‚‘⚡‘‚⚡‚‘⛈️‚‘⚡‘‚⚡‚‘(All these photos I shot were created quite fast for the purpose of live posting) The festival […]

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Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 Samples + Rolling Review

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 Sample Photos and Mini Review The 50mm lens and focal length is one of my favorites and possibly one of my desert island lenses if I was forced to pick.  It has a window to the world that shows just enough depending on where you stand, and can work well within […]

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World Refugee Day Celebration – Atlanta Photos 2025

World Refugee Day Celebration June 21, 2025 | Eritrean American Community of Georgia | Stone Mnt, GA ︶⊹︶︶୨୧︶︶⊹︶ Event Coverage by Boon VongThanks for enjoying and using my photos! Last year’s Photos are Here. Featuring: Coalition of Refugee Service Agencies CRSAAtlanta Korean Harmony Nanta • Muzhda Oriakhil • Mayor Beverly Burks • Eritrean Community Center […]

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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 […]

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Suwanee Asian Festival 2025 Photos

Suwanee Asian Festival 2025 Photos Suwanee Town Center | Sat June 7, 2025 | www.suwaneeasianfestival.com Featuring Performances by: Sydney Anderson • Hyper Angels • Mood Ring • Unique Dance Academy • Laotian American Society • Garima Dance Academy • Ntxhais Hmoob Kajsiab (NHK) • Leala Ho • Ankita • Emmy Young • The Atlanta Drama […]

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Lao 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 […]

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Lao 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 […]

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Nikon 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.

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Everything 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 […]

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Lao 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 […]

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Lao 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 […]

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Lao 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 […]

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Nikon 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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Holi Color Festival – Dunwoody 2025

Holi Color Festival Dunwoody Photos Brook Run Park  |  March 9, 2025 www.worldmusicusa.com www.createdunwoody.org Well that cold rain was an absolute bummer, but so glad folks stuck around for the dance/color party!  Here are my photos, please check out my other work on my site of all the other community events I cover professionally around […]

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“Spring” in Georgia 2025

It’s been a crazy long winter down here in Georgia (some of the okame cherry tree photos were shot on a 32 degree morning on Feb 22!), here’s hoping the warm weather will fully return soon so I can get some more photo shoots done! As of this week, the peach blossoms have started (the […]

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Lunar New Year 2025 – Stone Mountain Park – Finale

Sunday Feb 9, 2025 | Stone Mountain, GA Hey I made it out to the last day of the Lunar New Year Festival at Stone Mountain park.  (First Set of Photos Here if you missed that post) The weather was great and there was even a cherry tree in bloom!  Thanks to the Chinese Cultural […]

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flowering urban apricot tree

Was driving around this morning location scouting and saw these amazing flowering apricot trees. In the dead Rite Aid across from Atlanta Toyota on Pleasant Hill! These trees have seen better days, but still so pretty.  It’s crazy how there’s not a single leaf on those branches and are just pure blossoms. From my recon, […]

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Decatur Lunar New Year Festival 2025 Photos

4th Annual Decatur Pan-AsianLunar New Year Festival www.decaturlny.com Looks like I have competition everyone!! He’s got the photographer stance down! 🙂 Feb 2, 2025 | Decatur, GA Event Coverage by Boon Vong (yes the guy with lots of cameras, including an ancient digicam, passed down from the elders!! 😉 Gong Xi Fa Cai + Chuc […]

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