Atlanta Arab Festival 2024 – Sat Photos – Fashion Show

17th Annual Atlanta Arab Festival Saturday Oct 5, 2024 Photos – SET 2: Fashion Show Alif Institute | Atlanta, GA ⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅∙∘☽❈☾∘∙•⋅⋅⋅•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅ SET 1: Event Vibes    SET 3: Dance! ⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅∙∘☽❈☾∘∙•⋅⋅⋅•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅ SET 1: Event Vibes    SET 3: Dance!

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Atlanta Arab Festival 2024 – Sat Photos – Event

17th Annual Atlanta Arab Festival Saturday Oct 5, 2024 Photos – SET 1: Event Vibes and People! Alif Institute | Atlanta, GA ⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅∙∘☽❈☾∘∙•⋅⋅⋅•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅ SET 2: Fashion Show    SET 3: Dance! ⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅∙∘☽❈☾∘∙•⋅⋅⋅•⋅⋅⊰⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅⋅•⋅ SET 2: Fashion Show    SET 3: Dance!

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2024 DiA Gala – Backdrop and Awards Photos

Diversity in Action USPAACC-SE Gas South Convention Center | Duluth, GA | Oct 10, 2024 Backdrop Photography by Phalatda Taysavang

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USPAACC-SE – DiA Gala 2024 Photos

Diversity in Action USPAACC-SE Gas South Convention Center | Duluth, GA | Oct 10, 2024 Event Photography by Boon Vong and Phalatda Taysavang Backdrop / Awards Photos are in the Next Post •·················•·················• Backdrop / Awards Photos are Here:  

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Gainesville Latino Festival 2024 Photos

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 […]

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Serb Fest Atlanta 2024 Photos

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 […]

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Cultura Fiesta Latina Photos 2024

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 […]

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Suwanee Fest 2024 Photos

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 […]

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Atlanta Greek Festival 2024 Photos

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, […]

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Dunwoody Latino Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2024 Photos

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 • […]

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Atlanta International Night Market Photos – Lawrenceville – 2024-09-13

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 […]

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Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival 2024 Photos

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 […]

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Canon R8 Sample Photos + Portraits + Mini Review

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 […]

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Hmong Day 2024

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 […]

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Fil-Am – Sayaw Himig – Cultural Performances

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 • […]

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World Refugee Day – Clarkston, GA 2024

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 […]

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Michelle’s Graduation Party – VIP Hall – Buford, GA

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 […]

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Lao 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) […]

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10th Annual 2024 GAPABA Gala Photos

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)! […]

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APAC Gala 2024 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 […]

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Suwanee Asian Heritage Celebration – AANHPI – May 11, 2024

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, […]

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Lao 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 […]

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I 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 […]

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