Tag Archives: Laotian American Society
Lao New Year Riverdale 2026 Photos
~ Lao New Year ∽ Wat Lao Buddhamoongcoon ︵‿︵‿୨❀୧‿︵‿︵ Riverdale, GA | Sunday, April 12, 2026 For the first pretty calm Lao New Year in Georgia I thought about what gear to bring along. I gave my normal work cameras (Nikons and Canons) a rest and decided to shoot all Fujifilm as a challenge! So […]
Continue readingDragon Egg Festival Photos – Lawrenceville, GA – 2026-03-28
Had a free day so I stopped by the Dragon Egg Festival in Lawrenceville, after scouting the park in Grayson. Great hanging out with old friends and chatting with new people. It was wild seeing all the little ones preemptively rush the field for Easter Eggs–which are pretty much the original loot box/blind box. It […]
Continue readingConyers Cherry Blossom Festival 2026 Photos
Had a free day so I went to the Conyers Cherry Blossom festival to see the lovely trees, watch the group perform, and practice with my random gear. One of which is a new Canon lens I bought on a whim the day before. Even though the GPS always suggests 85 to 20 to get […]
Continue readingStone Mountain Park – Lunar New Year Finale Photos – Sun 3-01-26
🧧✨🏮✨🏮🐎🏮✨🏮✨🧧Finale Photos from Sunday March 1, 2026 Event Coverage by Boon Vong | www.b-vong.com @boonvongphotos
Continue readingStone Mountain Park – Lunar New Year Photos – Sat 2-28-26
🧧✨🏮✨🏮🐎🏮✨🏮✨🧧 Photos from Saturday February 28, 2026 A selection of my highlights from a really great weather weekend at SMP. I finally got to use the pink okame cherry trees for portraits and see the K-Pop competition finale. Everyone did great! The batteries in my GFX speedlight and instaxes were all wonky that day plus […]
Continue readingAtlanta Dragon Boat Festival – 2025 Photos
HK Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival www.dragonboatatlanta.com Lanier Olympic Park | Gainesville, GA | Sept 6, 2025 ‚‘⚡⛈️🌊🐉🚣🚣🌞🚣🚣🐉🌊⛈️⚡‚‘ Event Coverage by: Boon Vong It was another fun day out on Lake Lanier at the Dragon Boat Festival. Great job by the organizers, participants and community. Sadly the torrential rain canceled the finals, the first in this […]
Continue readingDragon Boat Atlanta Practice – 2025-08-24
Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival Practice Lake Lanier Olympic Park | Gainesville, GA | Aug 24, 2025 🌊🐉🚣🚣🚣☀️🚣🚣🚣🐉🌊 Hello everyone, finally made it out to watch the practice of the various teams for the upcoming annual HK Atlanta Dragon Boat that’s in a few weeks. It’s definitely a fun experience that we’ve been participating and contributing […]
Continue readingDuluth Multicultural Week – Laotian American Society Performances
Duluth Multicultural Week Parson’s Alley Duluth, GA | August 9, 2025 The K-Pop contest ended before sunset and that led right into LAS’s portion across the street at Parson’s Alley. It was pretty dark in that area, but good job everyone on the performances!
Continue readingAtlanta 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 […]
Continue readingLao Heritage Flag Raising Event – State Capitol – Atlanta, GA – March 24, 2025
A RESOLUTION Commending the Laotian American community of Georgia and honoring the Airavata flag; and for other purposes… WHEREAS, the State of Georgia extended a warm welcome to these Laotian refugees, with vibrant communities forming in cities such as Atlanta, Cornelia, Chickamauga, Lawrenceville, Marietta, Riverdale, and Macon, where they have worked diligently to integrate into […]
Continue readingHelp Our Veterans Event – March 23, 2025
75th Royal Lao Armed Forces Day Celebration Vet for Life | March 23, 2025 | Canton House | Duluth, GA A ceremony honoring the 50,000 fallen soldiers of the Kingdom of Laos, 700 U.S. Service members, 3,000 Thai troops and 5,000 South Vietnamese troops that fell in Laos; and recognizing all the heroes of every […]
Continue readingLAS + CCS Adventure
LAS + CCS Adventure March 22, 2025 | Stone Mountain, GA Throwback Thursday and catching up on my photos from earlier this year! Check out these masterpieces by the kids. ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗
Continue readingConyers Cherry Blossom 2025
Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival 2025 March 22, 2025 | Conyers, GA Catching up on my photos from earlier this year! Here are some photos from LAS’s performance and our photo shoot afterwards. ⊹︵︵︵ ❀ ︵︵︵ ⊹
Continue readingAtlanta 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 […]
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 readingJohns Creek Lunar New Year Festival 2024 Photos – Performers 7
Johns Creek Lunar New Year Festival 2024 Saturday Feb 10, 2024 | Johns Creek, GA DJ Chika Takai • Atlanta Chinese Dance Company • Shaolin Institute • Snow Angels Dance Group • Atlanta Korean Cultural Center • Laotian American Society • American Drama Club • Dragon Brothers and Phoenix Sisters • Zhuang’s Taichi Kungfu Academy […]
Continue readingAtlanta Dragon Boat Festival 2023 Photos
Hong Kong Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival September 9, 2023 | Gainesville, GA
Continue readingLao New Year 2023 at Wat Sattha Dhamma Video – Alto, GA
Lao New Year at Wat Sattha Dhamma – Alto, GAMay 20-21, 2023 Another super long cut of my photos + videos from a fun LNY weekend out in the country! 😉
Continue readingLao New Year 2023 – Wat Buddha Khanti – Sunday Photos
LAO NEW YEAR 2023Wat Lao Buddhakhanti | Snellville, GA | April 23, 2023 If you have loads of time, please check out my video recap of this past weekend. These are the clips I shot as well as photos. It’s 1hr and 24mins that shows the realness of our crazy/lovely/vibrant fun loving Lao culture. 🙂 […]
Continue readingLao New Year 2023 – Wat Buddha Khanti – Saturday Photos
LAO NEW YEAR 2023Wat Lao Buddhakhanti | Snellville, GA | April 22, 2023 If you have loads of time, please check out my video recap of this past weekend. These are the clips I shot as well as photos. It’s 1hr and 24mins that shows the realness of our crazy/lovely/vibrant fun loving Lao culture. […]
Continue readingAtlanta Dragon Boat Festival 2018 Photos
Event Coverage of the 2018 Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival, held annually after Labor Day in Gainesville, GA. Please join us next year!
Continue readingMiss Laotian American Pageant 2018
Event Photography of the 1st Annual Miss Laotian American Pageant. Norcross Community Center, April 1, 2018. Thanks to all the contestants and volunteers for contributing and giving back to the community.
Continue readingTEA Walk 2014
CPACS' Together Empowering Asian Americans Walk, Celebrating its 10th year! | Event Photos by Boon Vong
Continue readingAtlanta Dragon Boat Festival 2014 Photos
19th Annual Hong Kong Association Dragon Boat Festival | Lake Lanier, Gainesville, GA | September 13, 2014
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