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Date |
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
Speaker |
Tom Kaminski |
Location |
Farrand Hall, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Parking: |
Time |
Doors open at 7 and program starts at 7:30 pm |
Cost |
Free |
Title |
Hooked on Hummingbirds |
Topics |
Avian Video Center producer Tom Kaminski's highly acclaimed video reveals hummer behaviors that the naked eye never sees. Spectacular slow motion, freeze-frame and real time footage shows them flying upside down, catching insects, fighting, nesting and brooding. A number of scenes show them engaged in generally unreported behaviors, including male threats aimed at nesting females and other threat displays that can only be described as hummer ballet. Shot in California, Southeastern Arizona and Costa Rica, it shows more than a dozen hummer species, as well as the American kestrel, red-naped sapsucker, hooded oriole, cactus wren, vermillion flycatcher and many others. An earlier version of the video was a finalist in the national Telly Awards competition. |
About the Speaker |
Rancho Palos Verdes-based Tom Kaminski owns and operates the Avian Video Center , Great Vacation Videos and MediaSphere, a corporate communications company. He also is a board member of the Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society. His production credits include Hooked on Hummingbirds, Planet Galapagos, Fiji: Paradise Found, and other nature and travel videos. He launched his three businesses in 1997 after 30 years in broadcast journalism, college teaching, and corporate communications. Kaminski began his career as a cameraman and, later, radio and TV reporter and news anchor for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. He subsequently served in corporate communications capacities for Northrop Grumman, Rockwell, and other major firms, where his responsibilities included multi-media productions. A native of Riverdale, Maryland, Kaminski holds an MS degree in Mass Communications from San Diego State University. He and his wife, Jan, reside in Rancho Palos Verdes. |
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