{"id":109917,"date":"2025-06-30T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=109917"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:25:43","slug":"atlanta-international-night-market-chamblee-2025-saturday-photo-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/atlanta-international-night-market-chamblee-2025-saturday-photo-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta International Night Market \u2013 Chamblee 2025 \u2013 Saturday Photo Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Atlanta International Night Market<\/span><\/h1>\n

Chamblee, GA | June 28, 2025<\/p>\n

www.atlnightmarket.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Performances:<\/p>\n

DJ EZZY B \u2022 Vince the Voice \u2022 Ankita Jaikumar \u2022 Laotian American Society (LAS) \u2022 Colorful Hat Circus \u2022 Damali Bacchus \u2022 Ntxhais Hmoob Kajsiab \u2022 Alex Ahn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Event coverage by Boon Vong<\/p>\n

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Hello everyone, thanks for the views on my previous post on the AINM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For this, the second and last day of the night market I thought I would change things up a bit. Here’s my photo story recap in good old fashioned blog form. Yep you have to read along whilst you scroll to snag a photo or two. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert, it rained yet again! But here’s my day in photo and word form. It was great running into folks, thanks everyone for smiling and wanting to be in photos.<\/p>\n

After finishing and posting Friday’s photos at 2am EST I still got up at dawn. After a brief walk at the new Suwanee Park and photos of the sunrise I drove to Oakwood and got an oil change that my car was bugging me about.<\/p>\n

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(Not Chamblee) Suwanee Town Center on Main at Sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s the sunrise at the new Town Center on Main Park. A festival here would be very impressive, but the parking and other logistics would be tough yet again. I guess folks would still have to park at the old one and walk across the street. I know the plans currently only include a small food truck space up in the little cul desac.<\/p>\n

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(Not Chamblee) Suwanee Town Center on Main at Sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n

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(Not Chamblee) Suwanee Town Center on Main at Sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n

Photos of the Park right when it Opened<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos of the Park at Sunset<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, back to the Night Market photo story. I got to the festival around 3pm. After walking from my car near the Marta station I was already drenched. This humidity is almost as bad as Savannah in the summer.<\/p>\n

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At this moment there were not many clouds, but you knew the weather was a-brewing…<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shout outs to Vince the Voice for always being a supporter of my work! (Also I’m so awkward on camera, and thus not a shameless Youtuber)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Please check out the amazing artistic music from Magic Eastern Ensemble<\/p><\/div>\n

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For Saturday I rigged up one of my old cameras up high on the City Hall railing (thanks Josh).\u00a0 It was triggered remotely with a PW radio trigger and was there to keep me from the trouble of going into the building and all the way up the stairs just for a photo.\u00a0 It seems like creators these days have a team and I’m just 1 small person so this definitely helps!<\/p>\n

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If you have any old DSLRs laying around unused, they work great as remote stills only cameras.\u00a0 Here’s my post on that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That’s me!<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Did I even think about putting a plastic Publix grocery bag (that I specifically brought for today) over the camera before I left? Of course not! This crazy heat really does something to my concentration out in the world.\u00a0 What happened to the poor camera in the rain, oh you shall see…<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the Vietnamese tent for letting me use it as a pretty backdrop and cultural mashup!<\/p>\n

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Nice folks from the Alif Institute. I highly recommend going to their Arab Festival in October.\u00a0 It’s an outside market with vendors, amazing middle eastern\/Mediterranean type of cuisine, and NONSTOP Dancing! Here are my photos from last year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Thank you for the hibachi burrito! It was really good!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shout outs to DJ Ezzy B for also supporting my work! I would definitely like to learn how to DJ, if only to make mixes for myself while I drive around solo in the fall<\/p><\/div>\n

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I also put the RP on a monopod and triggered it remotely with a PW.\u00a0 I wanted to shoot a bit different today and the high vantage point and 24mm pretty much gets everything in focus.\u00a0 I didn’t really shoot too many portraits today as my goal was the colors and vibe. Plus it was easily as hot as Dragon Boat in September<\/a>–maybe hotter.<\/p>\n

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Apologies to LAS for missing the performance! I see you guys all the time anyway. ;}<\/p><\/div>\n

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So nice running in Christine and Sung! She operates and creates at Rebel Teahouse in downtown Decatur.\u00a0 Check out the community<\/a> she and others have helped build and nurture over there.<\/p>\n

And oh that “camera emoji” that’s on my lanyard is an actual digicam if you didn’t know!! Here’s my review<\/a> on it.\u00a0 I can’t believe it only costed $5 back then. It was available in Pink too.<\/p>\n

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And here are Vivitar Retro Keychain Camera photos.\u00a0 The pics are both awful and charming!\u00a0 The quality is on par with an old flip phone camera, so it’s quite retro.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Christine and Sung:<\/p>\n

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Yes, my people tan\/burn quite easily<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just look at this random couple’s feast!!! Well done sir.<\/p>\n

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Thank you dear for the rejuvenating fruity drink<\/p><\/div>\n

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So cool to see these acts.\u00a0 I know how hard the grind is from the times I provided photography for the Universoul Circus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Just look at the clouds in the bg<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’ve lived in Georgia long enough to know those types of clouds and brutal summer heat just adds up to an early evening thunderstorm<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shout outs to this energetic young lady that I bug for photos often now. \ud83d\ude09 Their Hmong Dance group Ntxhais Hmoob Kajsiab is super fun, and my favorite thing are the smiles and fun that they exude in every performance I’ve seen.\u00a0 Since I’ve covered this stuff for so long, I know the effort it takes to practice, dress up and drive a few hours, find parking, and dance in an un-optimal time window.\u00a0 It’s definitely a labor of love just to promote and showcase one’s culture and heritage for sure.<\/p>\n

My posts on Hmong New Year in Georgia<\/a> over the years.<\/p>\n

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Also while we are here, the “H<\/em>” in Hmong is silent.\u00a0 Similar to how the “S<\/em>” in Laos is silent. Or how Khmer is pronounced like “Kamai.<\/em>” The “K<\/em>” in Khabib Nurmagomedov’s name is silent as well. He’s the fighter that beat the daylights out of Conor McGregor a few years back.<\/p>\n

Why all this? \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af Because: French\/English\/Cyrillic\/or just written language in general. English is hard enough already right?! I didn’t make up these rules, and am still learning myself daily!<\/p>\n

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And here are the photos of the Hmong Dance Group with that storm just looming to the east.  What doesn’t make sense is the weather app on your phone is useless in days like this.  Just assume that in Georgia, if it’s blistering hot, and if there are clouds, it’s going to rain somewhere.  Also sorry some of the up close photos aren’t as sharp as they could be, I was shooting with an adapted manual focus Nikon 70-200 on the R8.<\/p>\n

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After I changed shooting positions, I came over to stage left and saw a RAINBOW in the sky!<\/p>\n

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I adjusted the curves to better show the rainbow!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I adjusted the curves to better show the rainbow!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I adjusted the curves to better show the rainbow!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I also shot some video on my phone while I was taking photos at the same time.  Yes I know it’s not optimal, but I’m used to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t

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