Vrhnika is a cute and vibrant old town some 20 km southeast from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Every summer the local culture and tourism institution organise months-long festivities called Summer in Vrhnika, ranging from concerts and plays in the open theatre to movie nights, football games, and kids parties. Last year they invited us to show how … Read more
We did it again! One of the most important task of a kite club is nurturing and spreading the culture of kite flying. So we were very excited when the Ivan Cankar Instutute of culture, tourism and sport in Vrhnika – a town some 30 km southwest from Ljubljana – called us and asked if … Read more
While we had so much fun flying kites in Gujarat, we are *KAP * Jasa, a kite aerial photography-oriented kite club, And surely we’ve had some cool KAP sessions down there! Most of the time the wind was not suitable for flying a camera, and when it was, patangs on manjhas were threatening anything that … Read more
What a time we’ve had … Dancers at the opening ceremony of IKF Gujarat 2020 in Saputara. Photo by Nikunj Raghvani. Team KAP Jasa was again invited to Gujarat, India – to represent Slovenia at of the largest kite festivals in the world, International Kite Festival Gujarat 2020. The festival took place in Ahmedabad and … Read more
True, our main business is kite aerial photography, not flying show kites. But kites are beautiful and fascinating and fun flying on their own too, especially if they are big and colorful and when they fill up the sky. That’s why kite festivals are such a big thing in many parts of the world; large … Read more
Kite aerial photographers are prone to exaggeration, and World Wide KAP Week 2019 is no exception: it’s a week that lasts for three weeks. So as we went to the Ljubljana Marshes Landscape Park to test the Giant Wiener Doggo Kite, we had just enough time to do a quick kite aerial photo session. The … Read more
Every year – around the time when Autumn announces itself – kite aerial photography afficionados participate in the World Wide KAP Week. This year WWKW 2019 lasts from 14th to 29th of September (yes, KAPers do exaggerate things), and flying the camera is a must. Our first try didn’t go as expected – the wind … Read more
KAP Jasa kite club was invited to take part in the 12th Con il naso all’insù international kite festival in Rosà, Italy, that took place from 16th to 17th March this year. An impeccably organized kite fest – mainly due to the efforts of the intrepid Guilherme Linares Palau and the Proloco Rosà team – … Read more
So, we were doing kite aerial photography for a year, we (“we” being Janez, of course) made some kites, mainly heavy lifters – when some kite flying friends from Zagreb casually said: “Arrange for a vacation in the first half of January. You are going to a kite festival in India!” Yeah, right. But then … Read more