{"id":102300,"date":"2025-04-22T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=102300"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:30:06","slug":"lao-new-year-2025-wat-buddha-khanti-snellville-ga-sunday-photos-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/lao-new-year-2025-wat-buddha-khanti-snellville-ga-sunday-photos-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lao New Year 2025 – Wat Buddha Khanti – Snellville, GA – Sunday Photos – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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~ LAO NEW YEAR \u223d
\nWat Lao Buddha Khanti
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Snellville \/ Stone Mountain GA | Sunday April 20, 2025<\/p>\n

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Sabaidee everyone, here are 100 photo highlights while I work on the rest.\u00a0 I’ve been really behind on things, and normally I post photo recaps with waaay more images, but hopefully these can sum up the wild and crazy vibe of this year’s LNY in Snellville!\u00a0 If you notice, these photos are also a tad bit different from my normal super glossy pretty photos.\u00a0 For this year I wanted to focus on the realness of our crazy+vibrant Lao culture. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So that meant deep depth of field photos showing the fun and the environment. Our events can be a sensory overload for sure.\u00a0 Here’s the experience in random order!<\/p>\n

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Besides the somewhat heavy GFX combo I was shooting early in the day, it was a bit liberating not carrying all of my big gear, and using only light cameras with basic kit lenses.\u00a0 As you can see from the water fight\/war zone photos it was a good call not bringing the 200mm f2, 105mm 1.4 or 85mm 1.2.\u00a0 Yes I am capable of taking images that don’t rely on bokeh. \ud83d\ude09 More photos to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

~ LAO NEW YEAR \u223d Wat Lao Buddha Khanti \ufe35\u203f\ufe35\u203f\u0b68\u2740\u0b67\u203f\ufe35\u203f\ufe35 Snellville \/ Stone Mountain GA | Sunday April 20, 2025 -\u02cb\u02cf \u0f3b\u2741\u0f3a \u02ce\u02ca- Sabaidee everyone, here are 100 photo highlights while I work on the rest.\u00a0 I’ve been really behind on things, and normally I post photo recaps with waaay more images, but hopefully these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,339,359,7],"tags":[173,202,353,286,51,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-102300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-lao-culture","8":"category-lao-food","9":"category-lao-thai-khmer-new-year","10":"category-photos","11":"tag-color","12":"tag-event-photography","13":"tag-fujifilm-gfx-50s","14":"tag-lao-culture","15":"tag-lao-new-year","16":"tag-portraits","18":"post-with-thumbnail","19":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t