Wedding Portfolio - Images by SangAmaya Images

Magnum in motion

Panama Days "Boca Chica"

Panama, Boca Chica- A sleepy fishing town located north of Panama City surrounded by islands where the fishing is awesome and the are beaches untouched.

Indigenous Indians live and work for the landloard of this island. The Indians left thier home village to pick up work in the small town of Boca Chica, Panama.

Tet festival, Vietnamee Lunar New Year, San Francisco

Little Saigon celebrates Tet, Vietnamese Lunar New Year, in San Francisco California on Jan. 18, 2009. This years Tet festival is known as year of the buffalo and was held on a beautiful day in little Saigon.

Written by TP Nguyen
Photos by Kirstina Sangsahachrt

Women and little girls dressed in ao dai, Vietnamese traditional dress, along community members such as the Vietnamese Youth Development Center were among the thousand people came from all over the bay area to visit. The food was abudant and Lee's sandwiches hooked it up with coconut pancakes and promoted their café sua da, while bbq sandwiches were also a popular snack. Although the festival was small covering only a few blocks between Larkin and Eddy Street, it had most of the typical elements of a Tet festival. Common to Tet festivals are the Yellow chrysanthemum flowers in red pots colored the street vendors. There were also famous Cherry blossom branches decorated with red money envelopes to symbolize new beginnings and prosperity. The yellow Saigon Flag with 3 red stripes was posted everywhere. The yellow symbolizing the race's skin while the red represents blood. Famous singers took center stage, and the elders got a front row seat with their hats and umbrella's to block the sun. With so much good food and in a peaceful environment in the heart of the tenderloin, it was hard not to have a good time. For the most part I have to say, the Festival was small and sweet, yet like just like Vietnamese people.

by TP Nguyen








This is the year of the Water Buffalo or Ox which signifies prosperity through fortitude and hard work as told in the Chinese Zodiac.

Happy New Years " Chuc mung nam moi".

.

Mercury News Wins an Emmy

San Jose Mercury News Photographer Dai Sugano produced the documentary video Uprooted that recently received an Emmy in the news and documentary section.

Please watch the video
http://www.mercurynews.com/emmys/ci_10533173

Uprooted
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/2007/12/23/uprooted/

"Uprooted," which looks at the displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, was nominated for new approaches to news and documentary programming in the documentary category. Sugano is the photojournalist and multimedia producer; Hernandez and Migielicz are the executive producers; and Julie Patel is the reporter.

A performer's journey from Peking Opera Stardom to Silicon Valley

This a story about a famous Peking Opera family emigrated from China trying to keep the tradition alive in Silicon valley. As a freelance job for the mercury news photographer Lipo Ching and myself set out to create amazing portraits of these stars and found a great story behind it.


http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10612154?nclick_check=1

Video/production/editing by Kirstina Sangsahachart
photos Kirstina Sangsahachart and Lipo Ching

The Big Bang Machine- countdown

In Geneva, A giant machine called the Large Hadron Collider is built entirelly underground at the CERN research centre straddling the Franco-Swiss border is where International physicists plan to smash particles together to create, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the event that started up the cosmos.
This 20-year project will be launched wednesday Sept 10th. It is the biggest experiment ever to be conducted to explore the how the universe was created. Physisits hope to answer questions like the existance of matter which can not be seen "dark matter" and mirocospic black holes. The Particles will be traveling near the speed of light when they colide. Basicly they hope to recreate the conditons right after the "big bang". WOW! very impressive. Scientists have garenteed that their experiment will be safe and hope to gain valauble knowledge.

My question is are we tampering with the wrong black hole? what if we find something so mind bowing it will change the world as we know it? Or destroy it. This is dangerous grounds we are stepping on if something should go wrong the world migh be swallowed whole. I guess this is a chance we might have to take. Now that this project is underway I really want to see what comes from it. Its a scene straight from a science fiction movie. This massive machine will reval its powers on wednesday so stay tuned.


The question is will the world be englufed into a balck hole once the machine is turned on?


Watch video of Atom Smasher
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=90338&newsChannel=scienceNews