Banakas | Photography

One afternoon, I loaded the kids up into the car and took a drive. As I was driving I came across this stretch of the road and after I drive past this particular spot, I thought it would be a cool picture. At the time I decided not to turn around since it was during   Read More …

Categories: East Tennessee

I have no idea as to what building this is, but I liked the way this shot looked.

Categories: Other Places

The temperature is falling this time of year and we start to pull out all the winter clothes from our closets (or in South Florida, they trade their flip-flops for socks and tennis shoes). With the changes in seasons, comes new photo opportunities. The same locations can be shot each season with different results. Today   Read More …

Categories: People

Mary Goose died in 1690, making this headstone over 320 years old. At one time it was believed that this was the burial place of Mother Goose. That is not the case. This is actually the headstone for Issac Goose’s first wife… I was going to write up a summary of how this is not   Read More …

Categories: Other Places

This is one of the first shots that I took using my new ND 3.0 (10-stop) filter. This is my first time using a filter and I’m quite happy with the results.

Everytime I see this image, I keep waiting to see if Bob Ross is going to pop in and start adding more paint to the painting. When I was a child I used to watch “The Joy of Painting” and be amazed how he could just add colors in different places onto his canvas and   Read More …

Categories: East Tennessee

My new lens (Nikon 50mm 1.8 D) was delivered today and since the kids are already in bed, I decided to use our dog as my model for my first shoot. The 1.8 allows for a much smaller depth of field. I can’t wait to get out and use it on other things other than   Read More …

Categories: Animals

Since I’ve started to get more invested into photography as a hobby, I’ve learned a lot, a lot about photography, light, colors, composition, exposures, shutter speed, and a bunch of other technical facets of photography. But, I’ve also learned a lot about my surroundings and they way I look at things. Some of those things   Read More …

Categories: Things

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