Banakas | Photography

Thai Statue I don’t remember exactly where this statue was located, but it was during our Shopping District Tour outside of Chiang Mai Thailand, that we came across it.

Roaring Fork River This is a shot of the Roaring Fork River in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Taken in November 2013.

What is Clipping In Lightroom the histogram will show a spike to the left if under-exposed and to the right when over-exposed. When the concentration is bunched up against the edge of the histogram, we know that significant detail has been lost in the image. This loss of detail is referred to as clipping. Tiny   Read More …

The United States Capitol Dome A close up of The United States Capitol Dome at night. Did you know: The dome is not made of stone. It was built using cast iron and carefully painted to look like the stone used to build the Capitol Building.

Pano of The Udvar-Hazy Center The Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is the companion facility to the Smithsonian Institue’s National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Opened in 2003, its two huge hangars. And I mean huge! The Boeing Aviation Hangar and the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, display thousands   Read More …

A Bridge To Cross Years ago, my family and I visited this very spot while visting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mind you we only live a short distance away and this is considered, “playing in our own backyard” when we visit. We actually don’t visit this enough. But, on that trip my wife,   Read More …

Burgess Falls In July Taken in July on a day that a group of my friends and I visited several waterfalls in the middle of Tennessee.

  Tha Phae Gate I was hanging out in front of the Starbucks at the Tha Phae Gate in Chiang Mai Thailand, when this young girl showed up and just sat on the sidewalk. I’m not sure where she came from or what she was doing, but she just stood out to me for some   Read More …