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Andrea Kaus Photos

Action Photography: If it moves, I'll shoot it

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Summer Dailies 2006

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It's a challenge for me and an opportunity to learn from others. If you want to see some truly amazing photography (not mine), check out the other photographers' galleries at the link above. You can also check out their comments and suggestions for my images by clicking on the photo and looking below it for "comments." Feel free to leave your own too.
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Duet<br /> <br /> (Sept. 29) Are these house finches too? Or some other kind of finch?<br /> More here:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98815232">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98815232</a>
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Duet

(Sept. 29) Are these house finches too? Or some other kind of finch?
More here:
http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98815232

  • No dogs allowed<br /> <br /> (Sept. 30) The Prescott Public Library opened the doors today to its gorgeous new building, really its rennovated, expanded, and rejuvenated old building. It was a great occassion, but dogs that belonged to the people who worked on the construction and rennovation were no longer allowed inside. They waited patiently outside. Here is the scene before:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1951598/1/99554844">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1951598/1/99554844</a>
  • Duet<br /> <br /> (Sept. 29) Are these house finches too? Or some other kind of finch?<br /> More here:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98815232">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98815232</a>
  • On the brink<br /> <br /> (Sept. 28) Just a house finch, but these are what is left of the agave blooms. Somehow the finches like the pods. This fellow was serenading a female on top of the stalk on the right earlier. <br /> <br /> An alternate shot is here -- I just could not figure out how to crop it:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98616912">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98616912</a>
  • Waiting for the Fall<br /> <br /> (Sept. 27) I would love to say that I saw this leaf and positioned myself to get the bird and leaf together, but I didn't. I didn't even see the leaf until I brought the photo up on the computer. Fluffy little fella, isn't he? I don't know what these birds are but they are tiny.
  • Hibiscus<br /> <br /> (Sept. 26) I don't know why, but I've always thought hibiscus flowers were slightly risque . . . well, actually, I do know why. I changed the title of this, because you never know what kind of searches bring people to one's site!<br /> <br /> The alternative shot is here:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98198853">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1/98198853</a>
  • Just plain dumb -- me, not Gus. <br /> <br /> (Sept. 25) Okay, chalk one up for stupidity. I took several shots, mediocre I hope, and forgot to put a card in. Worse, I didn't really notice until I got home. So I have to borrow from yesterday, because . . . that's what's on the card. Just dope slap me now.
  • Everybody's a critic<br /> <br /> (Sept. 24) I had nothing by eveningtime, so I went to my go-to guy, Gus. He was unimpressed and let out a huge yawn.
  • High School Dreams<br /> <br /> (Sept. 23) I had the opportunity to take some head shots for a local high school theatre class today. While I was waiting for the last kid to show up, I took a shot of one of the students intently watching his classmates rehearse a scene outside. If this group of kids was any indication of what high school students are like today, I would sign up to work at a high school in a heartbeat. Smart, funny, and thoughtful -- all of them.
  • oh, for light and a bigger lens . . .<br /> <br /> (Sept. 22) Desperation in the face of fading light and no shots for the day. This is a HUGE crop. All I can say is that the flowers are a pretty color, if out of focus.
  • Agave<br /> <br /> (Sept. 21) To be quite honest, I took this yesterday afternoon, but I've got zip for the day and am going to be out this evening. So I'm stealing from yesterday's shots.
  • Circumspect: Friend or Foe?<br /> <br /> (Sept. 20) UC Riverside Botanical Gardens.<br /> <br /> Here's an alternative shot:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/3/96794260">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/3/96794260</a>
  • Red alert<br /> <br /> (Sept. 19) Our ground squirrels are much scruffier than Thusie's tree squirrels. This guy has a bad hair day with his tail:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/2/96518492">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/2/96518492</a>
  • Troublemaker<br /> <br /> (Sept. 18) Actually I love ravens. This guy was trying to take the cap off of a solar powered light when I happened by. I did use Thusie's suggestion of adjusting the EC, but not enough. I had to play with it a bit in photoshop, and the detail showed up better as bw. I probably should clean up the sky a bit, but I'm thinking of using this for Halloween somehow.
  • A bird's eye view <br /> <br /> (Sept. 17) A little blurry, but looks like a good morsel for a bird. This is pulled back a bit:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/3/95949485">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/3/95949485</a><br /> <br /> I finished the sheepdog trial shots as well. I was trying to put them in some sort of semi-logical order:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1882483/1">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1882483/1</a>
  • Get your kicks on Route 66 . . . <br /> <br /> (Sept. 16) Today we went to the Route 66 Rendezvous in San Bernardino, CA. While we were having breakfast on the bleachers, this car got pulled in as the sponsor's choice in front of this painted board. After the presentation, the driver pulled back into the cruise traffic, and that's when I had the chance to take this fun shot. I've only started to process the images, but here's the start of the gallery:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1898272">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1898272</a>
  • Mooned by a Mocker<br /> <br /> (Sept. 15) For heaven's sake, I may annoy the birds, but they don't have to be rude about it. <br /> <br /> This is take 2 (cropped) following community suggestions. Riverside also has singing lamp posts along with the mooning mockingbirds:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/3">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/3</a>
  • Never trust your camera<br /> <br /> (Sept. 14) This was a bit of an exercise. I tried this on several settings, from aperture to time value priority and some automatic ones. All seemed way off to me, both in the playback and in the shutterspeeds or fstops. I think the meter only saw the grey sky and this dot of a hawk in it (this is a huuuuuuge crop). So I set it to what seemed a better mix, i.e., as high a shutterspeed that I thought would support the lowest f-stop, and it was the only shot that wasn't white sky with a black hawk. Don't laugh -- my lens won't go lower than f-5.6 when fully extended. It's not very fancy, but it takes a beating and keeps on ticking.
  • Self portrait<br /> <br /> (Sept. 13) I have a cold so I sat out class this evening. I'm somewhere in the midst of this chaotic photo though.
  • Waiting for the Fall<br /> <br /> (Sept. 12) This is a building at Ashcroft, a ghost town that is being restored near Aspen, CO. <br /> <a href="http://www.aspenhistory.org/ac.html">http://www.aspenhistory.org/ac.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/ashcroft.html">http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/ashcroft.html</a><br /> <br /> It is now part of the USFS (I think) and protected, but when I was a little girl, we used to picnic here and play in the fallen down buildings, including locking each other up in the old jail. <br /> <br /> The photo was taken yesterday. I'm feeling vacation lag today. There are more shots here: <br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037/1</a>
  • Purple Haze<br /> <br /> (Sept. 11) The photo is from yesterday and a little stroll through the Aspen Music Garden. There are more from the garden in the temp gallery:<br /> <a href="http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037">http://chaosgraphics.smugmug.com/gallery/1841037</a>

  • Andrea Kaus (ChaosGraphics)

    on October 1, 2006

    Thanks for the clarification -- these are actually "Arizona" house finches and I thought their beaks looked a little thicker than the ones here in California. The photo looks a little dark on my monitor here . . . it looked quite bright on my laptop screen.

  • LS

    on October 1, 2006

    ditto comments below. these are more red than the finches we have by me. LS

  • Mom4squirrels

    on October 1, 2006

    How come I didn't see this the other day? Hmmm. This is a very nice shot of the house finches. I like the golden light and their different poses...concentration and torn leaf in the beak...makes it interesting...sharp too!

  • Thusie

    on October 1, 2006

    I missed this yesterday>>> Finches. Like the guy on the top branch, nice eye 'contact' there.

  • Vandana Raman

    on September 30, 2006

    i think the male house finch, male birds are always so much more colorful than the wo-birds!

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