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2nd International Lao New Year: Closing Gala – 2010
2nd International Lao New Year | San Francisco Whitcomb Hotel Ballroom
Continue reading2nd International Lao New Year 2010 – Prelude
2nd International Lao New Year | San Francisco Pre-festival and practicing photos from this year’s Lao New Year in San Fran. Photos by me, if anyone uses them, please credit me or my site pretty please. Captions and of course thoughts by me as well, please note that taking pictures is much easier than performing and organizing […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2009 – Wat Lao Habersham
Wat Lao Buddhakhambouneheuang | May 30-31, 2009 | Baldwin, GA | Habersham County
Continue readingLao New Year 2009 – Wat Buddha Moongcoon – Riverdale, GA
Lao New Year 2009 | Wat Lao Buddhamoongcoon | Riverdale, GA
Continue readingInternational Lao New Year 2009 – San Francisco, CA – Festival Photos
International Lao New Year Festival San Francisco, California | April 11, 2009 Presented by: Center for Lao Studies Laotian American National Alliance Lao Heritage Foundation Sabaidee Pii Mai!
Continue reading…things that have been on my mind…
A few weeks ago we went to visit our old sponsors. It's something most Lao people are familiar with, having an American family adopt us or help bring us over from the refugee camps. Over time, we grew up and moved away, while most of them passed away.
Continue readingRoyal Lao Classical Dancers
Royal Lao Classical Dancers Clarence Brown Theatre | UTK, Knoxville, Tennessee
Continue readingPhotos: RLCD Festival and Wat Lao Nashville
Royal Lao Classical Dancers Festival Lao Buddhist Temple of Nashville New Year Celebration May 25, 2008 | Antioch, TN With any dance performance you’d most likely want to capture it on video, but sadly the technology, even at HD resolutions, doesn’t have that same visual appeal to me that photographs have. The above video is of […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2008 – Wat Pothisaram – Conley, GA
Lao New Year 2551 (2008) | Wat Lao Pothisaram | Conley, GA For those of you whose photographic or cultural interest has been piqued by my photos, I do have to say that almost all of my work deals with beauty–the surface kind. It’s just a natural tendency of a creative person, or actually of anybody […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2008 – Wat Khambounheaung – Baldwin, GA
Wat Lao Habersham New Year | Baldwin, GA | May 3, 2008
Continue readingLAS Fundraising Ball Photos – 2008
Of late I’ve been trumpeting the struggles of artists, but trying to promote respect for and a better understanding of my Laotian culture and heritage is also difficult. Laotian refers to the many groups of people from the small country of Laos (silent “S”). Lao refers to the main spoken and written language as well […]
Continue readingArt: Fawn Nang Keo
My drawings are on large paper, so I usually have to stitch the scans together and then I color it in sections, layer by layer. In this particular style and method, which I’ve been using for an awful long time, you can get by with almost any version of Photoshop. No need for the latest and […]
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