Banakas | Photography

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.

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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 …

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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.

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Mae Taeng on Elephants During a day tour that included a stop a an Orchid Garden, the Long Neck Tribe, and Elephant Park, we had the opportunity to ride elephants through the Mae Taeng District of Thailand. While I wouldn’t recommend this trip, due to the rushed feeling we got from our tour guide, I   Read More …

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Karen Long Neck Tribe The people from the long neck tribe are refugees from Burma who were accepted and supported by the Thai government for the tourist money they bring in. They are not allowed to go outside of the refugee camp. They are meant to live and work there, only in that small village,   Read More …

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Tuk-Tuk Ride This is just one of the many modes of transportation around Chiang Mai Thailand. After an evening of shopping at the Night Bazaar in Chiang Mai, Thailand, my son walked up to the driver of this Tuk-Tuk and told him to take us home. He was exhausted.

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This shot was taken using a NIKON D5000 at ISO 200, f/4, for 1/2sec Lincoln Memorial A few days prior to this shot being taken, a vandal had defaced the Memorial by splattering green paint on the leg and marble base of the 19-foot-tall statue of Abraham Lincoln. As of this shot, the paint was   Read More …

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I have just released my first calendar. Available now for purchase is a beautiful 12 month 2014 calendar. The calendar consists of images that I have taken from around the East Tennessee area over the past several years. Think of this as a hand-picked collection of some of my favorite images from around East Tennessee.   Read More …

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