Visiting Grandma’s Chickens

The photos are dark and gloomy, not exactly the Christmas photos that most people post at this time of the year. It was raining on Sunday, and we made our round delivering Christmas presents, and oddly I didn't take any picture of the presents. Grandma's garden looked gloomy, it was still drizzled when I was…

Visiting Grandma Last Weekend

I have converted some of these images to black and white for the Black & White Photography assignment. I'm glad I shot them in color, and post production conversion to black & white instead of shooting them in monochrome, or black and white.  It has been a while since I did a panning shot, and…

Assignment 24: Black & White Photography

This is my contribution to Scott’s Assignment 24: Black & White Photography. I've decided to shoot in Raw and in color, then post production conversion to Black & White in Lightroom 4.  I thought it would be interesting to see vibrant subjects in Black & White so I went to visit a small backyard chicken…

Thanksgiving Feast Lao Style

We travel every year to Bo's parents for Thanksgiving.This year Lee dressed her part as the Native American, but in reality we were like the Pilgrims that traveled the Mayflower journey to settle in North America.  We just came many moons later. As Laotians and Laotian Americans living in the US, we are thankful to…

Grandma’s Chicken

We visited Grandma's today, and got there before one of her customers picked up these eggs.  She has several regular customers that would come by when they want fresh eggs. Max was glad to visit again.  He killed several of her chickens the last time Grandma kept him when we were out of town.  Bo…

Visiting Grandma

The last time I visited Grandma's Garden was in May, her vegetables have grown since then.  I didn't get to take many photos, it threatened to rain while I was shooting video and then the sky opened up.  It was thunder and lighting and I didn't think it would be ideal to use the rainsleeve…