My cousin is in town for a bit helping his girlfriend move and trying to find a job up here and it was really nice getting to see him tonight. We met up, had some fast-food-type japanese eats then went up to the Marriott Marquee (which is at the top of the hotel and rotates [...]
***** Howard laughed at me today because as it turns out, I have really good timing and am able to get shots at the moment of impact. I laughed at him because I think he forgets I’ve been a photographer for the past nine years. Wow. Nine years. That kind of sounds like a long [...]
The one inconvenient thing about shooting film and keeping a blog is that I can’t really post the days’ photos unless I finish the roll and get them processed and scanned the same day. Not going to happen. Oh well. My friend Nguyen came to visit for the weekend. We did a lot of wandering [...]
My mother grew up in the poorest living conditions alongside her nine brothers and sisters. Living in what was essentially a grass hut with a dirt floor in Ca Mau, a village located near the southern-most tip of Vietnam, she never had the luxuries that I was able to have while growing up. With so [...]
I asked my good friend, Uyen, if she would be willing to translate this for me. It was written by my dad while in Singapore at a Vietnamese Refugee camp on the back of one of his photos that was in the previous post. After a few days of reading and re-reading, this is what [...]
Fort Lauderdale News METRO Wednesday, February 13, 1980 Safe from the sea, now they need a home By Russell Clemings Staff Writer Nearly a month after they left Nha Trang, Vietnam, and six days after their food and water ran out, the 23 Vietnamese refugees were drifting in circles in the South China Sea. As [...]
On the way to Café Grumpy I passed a sidewalk with pretty good-sized splotches of sort of fresh blood. It was certainly a good enough amount to deduce the fact that it was not caused by a paper cut. And next to the blood spots was a plastic bag full of something bloody. Awesome. I [...]
Just wanted to get a few words in before I forgot what I did in the past two days. I’m at work right now and this morning helped out with a casting for a beauty shoot. I met some models that were in fashion spreads I’ve seen before in Elle and Vanity Fair so it [...]
My brain is in overload. In a good way. Bart, Howard’s first assistant went over about four days worth of information with me today. I don’t think that was the plan but it somehow happened that way. I learned a lot of technical details about where everything was, how things worked, power packs, light tubes, [...]
Today when I was lost and walking in the wrong direction, I happened to stumble upon the New York Public Library. This makes me think I wasn’t really walking in the wrong direction, I just didn’t know I was supposed to go there. Anyway, at first glance I saw this: …it’s a poster that reads [...]
Hi! My name's Huong (pronounced "Hung") and I'm a photographer, writer, wife, and paranoid germaphobe who lives in Roanoke, VA. Traveling, good reads, and witty people with lovely brains are a few of my favoite things, but photography and writing are what this web log is about.
