A special category of kite aerial photography is taking shots of other kites in action. It is a difficult and challenging enterprise, requiring skill and patience: it’s about precision flying among many kite lines each of them eager to send your kite and camera crashing to the ground, while hoping the camera is aimed correctly … Read more
The pandemic is slowly receding and two of KAP Jasa kite club members – fully vaccinated, of course – finally got the opportunity to fly kites abroad! We were invited to Zagreb by the president of the Croatian Kite Association, and on a hot June weekend we packed some kites and drove to meet our … Read more
River Krka, the largest river of Dolenjska – Lower Carniola – is the second-longest that flows in its entirety in Slovenia, and the largest tributary of river Sava in Slovenia. Krka springs out of Krka cave at the end of a pocket valley near the village of Krka., and flows through Suha krajina region in … Read more
We went back to Kozler forest in the Ljubljana Marshes landscape park – but this time we didn’t plan a kite aerial photography session. We invited a couple of friends to show them what a show can show kites make! photo Aleš Obersnel Masterpieces of Dr.Agon kites chief designer and kitemaker Janez Vizjak, together with … Read more
Our Old Blue Rokkaku was getting really old, and since it was the very first kite made by kitemaster Janez Vizjak of Dr.Agon kites, it was decided to preserve it before it would be lost in some freak kite accident. But we need a low-wind lifter, so master Vizjak made a new one called The … Read more
River Ižica is one of the few rivers on Ljubljana Marshes that are mostly untouched, flowing as it pleases, meandering aimlessly and freely – disorderly? – in a striking contrast to the straight, constrained, utilitarian canals that crisscross and drain the Marshes. There are many reasons for this, but the main is that Ižica is … Read more
It was a beautiful windy and appropriately sunny Sunday afternoon, and Kozler’s forest – a strictly protected natural monument on Ljubljana Marshes landscape park – is just a couple of kilometers away. Such an opportunity for a KAP session or two is not to be missed! Kozler’s forest (or Kozler’s Thicket) is the largest remnant … Read more
A chance look at the right part of a LIDAR map led to a two-part KAP session, over 500 multispectral kite aerial photos, hours of image processing, NDVI calculations and contrast enhancing, poring over maps plotting directions and trying to disentangle everything – and when it finally started to make sense a real archaeologist deflated … Read more
A couple of days ago we were enjoying a relaxed kite flying afternoon, and we did some kite aerial photography too – to catch the stunning views across Ljubljana Marshes towards Ljubljana and the Alps beyond. But as the sun was setting and the light became golden, we just couldn’t resist – and we sent … Read more
Ufff, that was a long wait … we were experiencing KAP withdrawal symptoms as we are laser-focused on the first international kite festival IKF Slovenia 2022 that we are organising. Our last real KAP session was back in January, and two attempts in April ended in failure (no wind, low light conditions). So we were … Read more