Help 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 […]

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Chùa Hải Ấn Temple in the Spring 2024

This is how the Vietnamese Buddhisht temple Chùa Hải Ấn looked yesterday–amazingly pretty with all their flowering fruit trees.  I remember photographing the construction process of the worship hall last year in the late spring and saw that they had a ton of trees that would probably be nice in peak bloom.  This year I […]

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Photo Shoot – 2022-03-13 – Lotus Petals Dance Group

Thanks to the lovely ladies of the Lotus Petals Dance Group for wanting photos! Here are a few BTS from a fun short shoot on a crazy cold weekend in Atlanta.  What’s going on with this weather lately.  Also thanks for the doughnut! 🙂 I’ve been playing Elden Ring non stop for two weeks now, […]

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Miss Vietnam Georgia 2022 – VAC-GA Tet – 01-30-2022

Miss Vietnam Georgia Pageant and Lunar New Year Celebration Vietnamese American Community of Georgia Space Ballroom | Norcross, GA | January 30, 2022 Chuc Mung Nam Moi everyone! It’s been a few years since the last pageant and festival so it was nice seeing random folks and catching up! I missed the evening gown portion […]

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Film Throwback: Kodak BW400CN and Miss Viet Georgia Pageant 2012

Since I’ve been shooting film for the last few months I thought I would revisit some photos I shot back in 2012.  Hard to believe these pageant photos are now 10 years old.  So crazy the fast nature of life.  Anyways, if my memory is correct I was shooting mainly with my digital Nikons and […]

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Photo Outing – 01-23-2022

Last week was snow here in Georgia, and now this week is the start of the various Lunar New Year celebrations around metro Atlanta.  Hopefully both of those things signal an end to the cold weather.  For Sunday’s outing I thought it would be cool to shoot for fun with some of the older cameras–a […]

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VACGA Lunar New Year and Miss Vietnam Georgia Pageant 2019

Congrats to all the winners and participants in the 2019 Miss Vietnam Georgia Pageant!

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VACGA New Year 2014

Vietnamese American Community of Georgia New Year and 20th Anniversary Celebration | Miss Vietnamese Georgia | Wild Bill's, Duluth, GA | February 2, 2014

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Vietnamese Community of Georgia New Year 2014

Cong Dong Viet Nam Georgia | Miss Teen Vietnamese Pageant | The Grand Ballroom | Norcross, GA | January 21, 2014

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Vietnamese Lunar New Year Miss Viet 2013

Vietnamese Community of Georgia Lunar New Year Celebration and Miss Viet Georgia Pageant | February 10, 2013 | Norcross, GA

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Miss Viet Georgia / VAC Lunar New Year 2011

Extra Pix! Notes: I draw.  I take photos.  I don’t speak Vietnamese. 😉  These are the silly photos I usually end up liking. …Team Blanco, white is for winnahs!   Apparently everyone got the inception to wear white in the dream state.  Hey, those photos look familiar. 🙂

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Vietnamese Moon Festival 2010

Notes: …shooting pictures with camera B while carrying a Steadicam Merlin on camera A is pretty hard…video clips in the next post.

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