Before we start with this, a celebration is in order: this is the 100th article on our new site. Yay!
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The first one was published on July 17, 2022, just after the IKF Slovenia in Murska Sobota. Hurray to us, now let’s begin.
While half of KAP Jasa were running around Gujarat, Janez held ground at home – or better, he held the kite line, as he was true to our core business: kite aerial photography
At the southeastern corner of Lake Cerknica, where the winds are treacherous when blowing in the right direction.
And the snow-sprinkled wetlands look like an impressionistic painting.
This time there was 50+ km/h wind up to some 100 meters, and zero above.
Cindy delta went up first – but even the dynamic spreader couldn’t handle that flow …
So it went back down, and Janez then took out the old Royal 69 sled.
This kite was the second KAP kite Janez made almost eight years ago, and it remains our only KAP kite that can face such a fierce wind.
The old faithful sled did its job perfectly.
The point of flying above the same spot a month or so apart is that the subtle changes that are hardly perceivable on a day-to-day basis, are cleary visible.
A month after the winter fairytale there is obviously much more water in the intermittent lake, as the snow melted. Lake Cerknica is slowly growing and is, if the Spring rains will deliver, bound to attain its regular full size, 26 square kilometers.
It is, after all, the largest intermittent lake in Europe.
But, to be honest, it is the beauty, the magic of this place that attracts the kites.
This time it was not about documenting the constant rhythm of changes, it was not about Lake Lougeon. of Strabo, nor the cartesian waterworks of Valvasor’s imagination, nor it was about the steel bird that fell into the lake.
Sometimes the beauty on itself is enough. Just a lake; the water, the sun, the sleeping plants, the remnants of snow – and an eye in the sky, hovering and recording so that other, earth-bound eyes could see.
A microscope resolved the universe in a drop of water to us. A telescope brought the stars closer, and unveiled immense expanses as unimaginable as our world is to a paramecium.
We count, we measure, we uncover and discover – not despite the beauty and in defiance of magic, but to see and to experience more.
Every new view makes them even more profound.
We seek that – more beauty, more magic – and a kite gracefully helps.
It is resonating with all this.
And all this resonates with us.
Kite aerial photos shot with Insta 360 on Cindy delta and Royal 69 sled kites, both made by Dr.Agon kites.