Banakas | Photography

This shot was taken using a NIKON D5000 at ISO 200, f/18, for 1/1sec Waterfall on The Roaring Fork

This shot was taken using a NIKON D5000 at ISO 400, f/11, for 1/500sec Wild Eagle Soars over Dollywood and the Mystery Mine. If you’ve never been, Dollywood is quite the experience. It’s a small theme park nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains and the scenery is just beautiful. A lot of theme   Read More …

Categories: Other Places

Yesterday, June 23 marked the day the full moon was the closest it was going to be to Earth at any time this year. Last night I decided (just like almost everyone else with a camera) to get out and take shots of this Super Moon. In my opinion it looks just like any other   Read More …

Categories: Things

Dolly’s Nights of Many Colors This shot was taken using a NIKON D5000 at ISO 200, f/9, for 7.80sec How To Photograph Fireworks Currently at Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, TN, they are celebrating 6 weeks of “The Great American Summer” with extended hours and a fireworks show called “Dolly’s Nights of Many Colors”. For a   Read More …

Categories: Other Places, Things

The Fourth of July is just around the corner and now is a good time to write-up some tips for shooting your local fireworks display. What Should I Bring With Me? Tripod Do not leave home without your tripod. This is probably one of the most important tools that you need to capture fireworks shots.   Read More …

Categories: Articles, Featured, Things

Working around waterfalls can be very dangerous, so I will warn you to take all precautions while working around them. 3 minutes? Really! That’s all the time you need to read what I have to say below the image. Point of View Your point of view while shooting a waterfall can make, or break you   Read More …

Dry River Bed Last summer I took a hike to Piney Falls, just west of Spring City in East Tennessee. The temp that day was 106 degrees and little did I know, that the river had pretty much dried up. This shot was taken from the middle of the river bed looking over the top   Read More …

Categories: Other Places

Downstream From Baby Falls Sometimes I don’t really have anything to add to an image. Today is one of those days. This is a nondescript set of cascades downstream from Baby Falls along the Tellico River. After looking at this image for a little bit, I started to see what looks like an alligator starting   Read More …

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