Gainesville GA Latino Festival Midland Greenway | September 28, 2024 This drink was pretty good. I tried the pineapple and mandarin orange flavor. Jarritos has some unique flavors that Asian people would enjoy too, like the tamarind one. Visited the Latino festival in Gainesville on Saturday after the Serbian event. That’s a pretty nice park […]
Serb Fest Atlanta Sts. Peter and Paul Serbian Orthodox Church | Lilburn, GA | Sept 28, 2024 ‿̩͙‿‿̩͙‿ ༺ ❁ ༻ ‿̩͙‿‿̩͙‿ It was another fun (but short) visit to this year’s Serbian Festival in Lilburn. Thanks to their lovely community for remembering me and appreciating my work! Had to run to another event at […]
Cultura Fiesta Latina Fotos Lawrenceville, GA | Sept 27, 2024 Feat: El Kartel Latina Band | Felicita | Obsession Lowrider Car Club Atlanta ︵‿︵‿︵‿︵︵‿︵‿︵‿︵︵‿︵‿︵‿︵ The big hurricane that rolled through the southeast was wild! Seems like those things happen quite often nowadays. Awful to see all the flooding in western North Carolina, Asheville and the […]
Suwanee Fest and Parade 2024 Suwanee, GA | September 21, 2024 Man it sure was a blisteringly hot “fall” morning at this year’s Suwanee Fest Parade! Big thanks to everyone for participating in the totally awesome/radical 80’s themed event. Here are a selection of my photos from a really fun (half)day. It’s crazy, I remember […]
Atlanta Greek Festival 2024 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral | Atlanta, GA | Sept 20, 2024 Had a great time at the Atlanta Greek Festival. Here are my photos from a Friday! I can only imagine how fun Saturday was. Thanks to everyone for posing, and being so welcoming to me. Such an amazing community. Friendship, […]
Dunwoody Latino Hispanic Heritage Celebration Ashford Lane | September 15, 2024www.dunwoodyga.gov | www.createdunwoody.org Featuring: Peruvian Cultural Association | Aklla Sumaq Dancers • Corners Outreach Singers • Games with Lisa Torres • Caló Gitano Dance Studio • Ballet Folklorico Alma Mexicana • Los Niños Primero • Teatro Ilegal Whole World Improv Theatre • Veronica Gleasson • […]
Atlanta International Night Market Photos | Friday Sept 13, 2024 | Lawrenceville, GA A quick set of photos from the Atlanta International Night Market in Lawrenceville (where I live!). The rain and windy weather didn’t keep these festival goers from experiencing all the food! … These photos are from a short stay on Saturday, there […]
Hong Kong Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival (From the Lao perspective!) 🙂 Gainesville, GA | September 7, 2024 Another fun time at the Atlanta Dragon Boat festival up in Gainesville. We’ve been participating / competing / dancing at this great event for such a long time now. In fact, the “throwback” shirt that I’m wearing is […]
I added a Canon EOS R8 for some work situations because it’s the only affordable mirrorless camera with a usable silent shutter. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. After all these years I still don’t have a Nikon FF mirrorless because the older Nikon DSLRs still produce top notch images, and their files work perfectly in […]
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 […]
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 […]
∽ 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 […]
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 […]
~ 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 […]
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 […]