March 22nd is World Water Day, so KAP Jasa went to Ljubljana Marshes in search of the last remaining wet meadows: Iški Morost or Iška moor. (A north-south view of eastern part of Iška moor. Wet grasslands transitions to shrubland to flood forest.) Within the Iški morost nature reserve, some of the finest examples of … Read more
Not all kites are workhorses. Some are pure fun: This is our Giant squid called Liggie, a showkite. Sewn by Janez, plan by master kitebuilder Ivo Van Olmen. As a showkite, Liggie the Squid can’t fly by itself; it is attached to the line of a lifter and let to wiggle in the wind. Here … Read more
First flight of our new KAP kite; 2×2 m French military design; 3,3 square meters of fabric, 738 grams including spars. It is extremely stable and has an enormous pull, so a lot of hopes are riding on this kite aerial platform. Alas, the wind was just barely enough to lift it (<5 km/h), so … Read more
We always say kite is a great scientific tool and that kite aerial photography can lead to actual discoveries (great masters at West Lothian Aerial Archaeology proved that so many times) – and now this! (TL;DR: did we discover something in the river? Probably not.) As we checked our kite aerial photos of river Unica … Read more
KAP Jasa proudly presents – Millie! Millie is our latest – and so far the largest – KAP kite, of French military design. 2 meters high, 2 meters wide, 3,3 square meters of fabric, 738 grams including spars. Measured, cut and sewn by master seamster and chief kite pilot Janez (“Ja” in KAP Jasa 😊).
Water, ice and snow create those eerily beautiful patterns in Planina karst field, Slovenia. Check out this video, and this one with enhanced wind howl. Kite aerial photos taken with Canon A810 and Nikon 1 J1, video with GoPro 3, all on a great white delta kite.
KAP-ing in winter is hard. The cold, the wind, the snow … And it’s beautiful. River Unica flows through snow-covered Planina karst field, Slovenia. Kite aerial photo, Nikon 1 J1 on a Royal 69 sled kite
In late 19th and early 20th century the Austro-Hungarian Empire took on a huge river engineering project in Ljubljana Basin – they chained the mighty Sava river into a straightened channel running north-northeast of Ljubljana from Tacen through Šentjakob all the way to Litija. But Sava wouldn’t be tamed. In the nineteen thirties it broke … Read more
This is river Sava near Šentjakob, Slovenia, shot with Nikon 1 J1 on a Rokkaku kite. In september 2010 it swelled enormously during the torrential rains and its truly exceptional flow – exceeding 1.200 cubic meters per second – of this barely tamed river destroyed almost 600 m of the left bank channel wall, reclaiming … Read more
This cute little church is dedicated to a rarely chosen saint, allegedly martyred in AD 304. It presides over a small, intimate graveyard, lined with typical cypress trees, perched high on the Karst ridge. Built in 11th century almost 250 meters above the valley, every visit is a not-so-subtle allegory of the final ascent to … Read more