Banakas | Photography

Spent a part of the evening working on some Gift Certificates, that are being donated by my wife’s massage business, for an upcoming fund-raiser. After looking around the bowels of the internet for a little while, we never found anything that seemed to work for us. So, I broke out the camera and did a   Read More …

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Problem Solved So what’s a photographer to do, when there is work to be done? This afternoon, instead of shooting the micro ecosystems we have in the yard, it was time to start mowing the yard and preparing it for spring / summer. But I still wanted to play with the camera, so I decided   Read More …

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Together we stand strong! I was out in my yard this afternoon with my camera and my Nikon 55-200mm DX Zoomlens taking photos of birds and the blossoms of the Bradford Pear trees. After I had lost the light that I was trying to capture with the blossoms, I decided to get very low and   Read More …

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Comet PanSTARRS officially named Comet C/2001 L4 was discovered in June 2011 and this month it is now visible with the naked eye. There was a very small window of opportunity to see this comet as it can only be seen during the twilight time just above the horizon. About 30 minutes after sunset, the   Read More …

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Happy Valentine’s Day — I wish you all a very happy Valentine’s Day! This shot was taken using a NIKON D5000 at ISO 200, f/1.8, for 1/500sec

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The Man in the Moon is always watching you. This afternoon I came home and while sitting at the kitchen table, looking over my daughter’s homework, I noticed the moon shining through the branches of the trees and decided that would make an interesting composition. To me the naked branches of the trees have a   Read More …

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This shot was taken using my 1.8 50mm lens. This quick lens makes for great depth of field, causing the foreground and background to blur while a portion of the leaf is in focus. I thought this shot was interesting due to the contrast between the color of the bark of the shingle and the   Read More …

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