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Monique + Leo: A Beautiful Long Beach Wedding. Part Two.August 28th, 2010No need for words here. Enjoy the rest of the photos in part two! BTW, lots of pictures with this entry so you’ll want to give this post a little longer to load! Date: August 21, 2010 Venue: Earl B. Miller Japanese Garden Ceremony Location: Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, California Reception Location: Hak [...] |
No need for words here. Enjoy the rest of the photos in part two! BTW, lots of pictures with this entry so you’ll want to give this post a little longer to load!
Date: August 21, 2010
Venue: Earl B. Miller Japanese Garden
Ceremony Location: Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Reception Location: Hak Heang Restaurant, Long Beach, California
Monique + Leo: A Beautiful Long Beach Wedding. Part One.August 24th, 2010Amazingly enough, it has been a pretty mild summer here in Southern California compared to past years. Because of that I was hoping for those wonderfully mild temperatures to stick around since it is after all, August, but it appears that mother nature decided to play tricks on us and brought on some sweltering temperatures [...] |
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Tags: California State Long Beach, Earl B. Miller Japanese Gardens, Long Beach, Monique and Leo, Southern California, Wedding
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Amazingly enough, it has been a pretty mild summer here in Southern California compared to past years. Because of that I was hoping for those wonderfully mild temperatures to stick around since it is after all, August, but it appears that mother nature decided to play tricks on us and brought on some sweltering temperatures just in time for Monique and Leo’s Wedding. I suppose it could have been worse and rained on us, but thankfully it didn’t, so I’m going to be thankful for that as it was still a beautiful Saturday afternoon for a lovely couple to be married.
I want to add that I consider myself and my team fortunate to have had the honor of documenting such an important day for such an incredible couple. Monique and Leo, you guys rocked the wedding and it was such a pleasure to have spent the day with you and all your wonderful friends and family. I only wish you two the best on your new journey in life and hope that we have captured your memorable day as you saw it. So without further adieu, here are the first set of your photos. Enjoy!
Date: August 21, 2010
Venue: Earl B. Miller Japanese Garden
Ceremony Location: Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Reception Location: Hak Heang Restaurant, Long Beach, California
A Cambodian New YearApril 21st, 2010Sou sdey, chnam tmey! Which for those of you who don’t speak Khmer, translates into Happy New Year! Yes I know, it’s April not January or even February like Chinese New Year but there’s a reason for that. Cambodians celebrate their New Year from April 13-15th (or whatever weekend falls close for those not in [...] |
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Tags: Cambodian New Year, El Dorado Park, Khmer Arts Academy, Long Beach
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Sou sdey, chnam tmey! Which for those of you who don’t speak Khmer, translates into Happy New Year! Yes I know, it’s April not January or even February like Chinese New Year but there’s a reason for that. Cambodians celebrate their New Year from April 13-15th (or whatever weekend falls close for those not in Cambodia) as those dates typically land at the end of the harvesting season.
Traditionally the New Year is celebrated with blessings that involve wiping powder on peoples faces and water fights while the hard working farmers take a moment to enjoy the fruits of their harvest and relax before the rainy season begins. Now as you can imagine, the celebrations are quite a bit different here in the States and abroad than they are in Cambodia but the partying is still there nonetheless. Here in Long Beach, the celebrations started with the 6th Annual Cambodian New Year Parade which took place on April 4th followed by the annual New Year Celebration at El Dorado Park on the 10th. Now normally I would have been out there documenting the celebrations with my camera, but this year I told myself to just simply enjoy the party instead of taking photos of everyone else enjoying it. But with that said, I couldn’t stop myself from snapping a few photos so here are some shots from the New Years Parade and a few more from KAA’s performance at El Dorado Park. Enjoy!
And as always, you can find the rest of the photos from KAA’s performance at SOJOURN FOTO’s Online Gallery.
A Dirt Lot + A Cambodian Exile + Cain and Abel = “Expulsion”March 23rd, 2010A family torn apart by war only to be reunited in a far away land. A brother’s jealously leads to the death of another. A dirt lot in the City of Long Beach plus the creative minds of the Collage Dance Theatre and Khmer Arts Academy equals modern day story of those two tales: Expulsion. [...] |
A family torn apart by war only to be reunited in a far away land. A brother’s jealously leads to the death of another. A dirt lot in the City of Long Beach plus the creative minds of the Collage Dance Theatre and Khmer Arts Academy equals modern day story of those two tales: Expulsion.
And if you’d like to see the rest of the photos from Expulsion, you can find them here!