Canon R8 + Nikon 105mm f/1.4 vs Nikon D700 + 200mm f/2

I have enough material from work level stuff to post this quick comparison.  Not to show which one is “better,” but to just simply show the image rendering and bokeh that one can get with these two setups. The idea for this came from the Lunar New Year at Stone Mountain, as I wanted to […]

GAPABA Lunar New Year Banquet 2025 – Canton House

GAPABA Lunar New Year Banquet  New Canton House, Duluth, GA | Feb 8, 2025 www.gapaba.org Event coverage by Boon Vong Hello everyone here are some of my photos from GAPABA’s annual Lunar New Year banquet and leadership installation at the new Canton House in Duluth.  Over 300 guests this year!  For the rest of the […]

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, […]

Nikon Coolpix 3700 Review!

I keep on forgetting to do a “formal” review of this awesome vintage digicam from 2003! (The thumbnail is an homage to all the digicam love Asian folks in Asia are doing on that Lemon8 SMS.  I don’t know where they are getting their supply of old digital point and shoots but man!) Thanks to […]

Canon R8 + Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G Samples

Hello everyone, I’ve been using the R8 (Review Here) recently with my old Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G. It’s all manual focus, manual aperture via the adapter’s ring, and no VR, but you know I think it’s workable for me. I have like 20 years experience with this lens on my native Nikons so it’s only a […]

Nikon 18.5mm f/1.8 Samples + Review

Hello everyone Happy New Year. (The first of many if you cover enough different cultures as I do here in Atlanta!) In cleaning up work and old photos I think I’m going to start off with posting random camera gear thoughts and “reviews” that have been sitting on the back burner for so long. Again, […]

Momocon Cosplayers on Ice 2025 Photos

Momocon Cosplayers on Ice January 4, 2025 | Atlantic Station | Atlanta, GA www.momocon.com | www.atlanticstation.com ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄ Thanks to everyone for braving the cold and posing for photos! The sunlight was very nice, making for some great backlit photos. (and yes even I snuck into some photos!) Here’s my photo story from a frigid/fun day […]

Nikon D700 + 200mm f/2 Practice Photos

Hello everyone, here are some photos from the last two weeks or so with my new favorite combo, the Nikon D700 “Classic” and 200mm f/2.  Yes it’s a heavy beast of a setup, but man are the pictures sharp and colorful, with a contrast and punchiness that can be had straight out of camera.  Nothing […]

Old Portrait Re Edits – Earthy Tones

I shot these photos with Amanda in 2020, which seems like forever ago.  Don’t know why I passed by these specific ones on the first pass.  I think that’s the cool thing about digging thru the archives of old photoshoots.  Even some of the off poses can have their own charm when they’ve had to […]

Kawaii Dreams Fest – Charlie’s Collectible Show

CCS | 6009 Memorial Dr | Stone Mountain, GA | IG | FB Dec 7, 2024 ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗ ♡ Kawaii Dreams Winter Fest ♡  ╔═══.··.☽✧♥︎𓆩♡𓆪♥︎✧☾.··.═══╗ 𝓟𝓱𝓸𝓽𝓸𝓼 𝓫𝔂: 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓷 𝓥𝓸𝓷𝓰 ╚═══.··.☽✧♥︎𓆩♡𓆪♥︎✧☾.··.═══╝ (Yes I’m trying to be fancy here) 🙂 That was a fun and cute event! Thanks to the CCS family+community for letting […]

Nikon 200mm f/2G VR Review…Finally 20 Years Later…

Nikon Nikkor 200mm f/2 G VR Sample Photos + Review It took about 20 years but I finally got one of the lenses that I’ve wanted for so long, the AF-S Nikon 200mm f/2G VR. It’s a heavy relic from the early days of DSLR imaging, announced in May of 2004, long before Nikon had […]

Quinceañera Expo Atlanta Fotos

Quinceañera Expo Atlanta Espacio Ballroom  |  Norcross, GA  |  December 1, 2024 Featuring: Talento Latino, Coreografias Lupitas, Mis Quince Boutique, Sonido Latino, Ashly Barrerra Makeup, DJ Alex, Dulces Suenos, and many more super talented vendors! (more to be tagged when I have the time) ︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵ I visited the Quince Expo on Sunday, and it was […]

Nikon Giugiaro Designed Cameras in My Collection

Above: Nikon D4, Nikon Df, and Nikon L35AF The other day I was thinking about toys, and how little kids from every walk of life love and cherish them.  When we first moved to this country, I’d just started Kindergarten and was so proud to participate in show-and-tell with my little racecar and the tiny […]

UGA Homecoming Parade 2024 Photos

UGA Homecoming Parade Athens, GA | Oct 4, 2024 It was a short but fun parade in Athens the other week. Walking around downtown is so different now. The old yellow gingko trees are long gone, and I used to remember them raining down leaves and the distinct smell as we walked to the comic […]

Peachtree Corners Exotic Car Meet – Sept 2024

Peachtree Corners Town Center | Sept 29, 2024 Pretty cool way to start my Sunday morning at an informal exotic car meet in P’tree Corners, which fun trivia is Gwinnett’s newest and biggest city.  🤔 Dusted off the GFX since I hadn’t used it in a while, and it’s definitely still the dynamic range king. […]

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 […]

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 […]

New Suwanee Town Center Park at Sunset

Big thanks to Vivian and Sean for coming over to hang out!  Showing some of the images we got on the adventure in reverse, because at the end of the day we were blessed with a pretty great sunset at the new Suwanee Park.  It took a late evening rain storm, but that’s usually how […]

Car Meet – Tint World – Lawrenceville – 2024-06

The other day I stopped by a cruise in before heading out to grab some Chinese food for dinner.  Lots of nice cars and bikes!  It was great chatting with everyone.  I’ll plan on coming back, since during the summer it seems like folks disappear or have other plans–but there’s always a car meet somewhere, […]

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 […]

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)! […]

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 […]

Lao New Year – Conley, GA 2024 – Saturday Photos

∽ 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 […]

Miss Cambodia Georgia – CAAG – 2024

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 […]

Nikon 85mm 1.4D + GFX 50S

Last week I thought I would give this combo another try–a now “vintage” Nikon 85mm 1.4D adapted to the GFX with the simple dummy adapter.  Last year I wasn’t too keen on the 67mm “equivalent” focal length when mounted on the medium format GFX sensor, but for this colorful spring I thought it would be […]

Vintage Cameras in the Spring

These are from a few weeks ago, but I wanted some nice “product” photos of some of my vintage cameras.  Just nice to have, and it always makes me appreciate the design and styling of these photographic tools.  And yes the Polaroid 100 still has a pack of Fuji FP-100C in it, a rare and […]