Finally a good wind forecast made us pack the gear, and there were favourable conditions for some near infrared aerial archaeology … So we drove again to “our” place near the medieval castle Kalc in the upper Pivka valley, to determine where exactly – and if at all – once stood an Iron age settlement … Read more
Urban KAP – flying a kite with a camera in the city – is always fun … the wind is completely unpredictable, the turbulences are having a blast, the high rises, power lines, streets and people are just waiting for a kite to crash into them … and every tree is of course an evil … Read more
Just east of Ljubljana, between the villages of Dol and Podgrad, there is an interesting natural phenomenon – a triple river confluence. In a couple hundred meters two rivers flow into Sava river, first Kamniška Bistrica from left and then Ljubljanica from right. Looking west towards Ljubljana We tried to get this triple confluence from … Read more
Well, since we are a bit crazy, guess what we did after an exhausting day of flying kites at the 4th IKF Slovenia – Vrhnika 2020? We went out and fly some more! We chose our favourite spot in the middle of Ljubljana Marshes landscape park, and this open space allowed us to do some … 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
Zaplana is a hilly karst plateau southeast from Ljubljana, above Vrhnika. It is a remote, peaceful and wild part of Slovenia, where small settlements and lone homesteads dot the meadows, and deep forests are covering most of the hills. There is an ongoing effort to revitalize an old farming homestead, preserving ways of life as … Read more
As experts in kite making and kite flying (ha!) we were called to assist in shooting a video of a beautiful project: a virtual global kid choir under the auspices of the famous choir conductor Stojan Kuret performing a piece by composer Tadeja Vulc. This global virtual choir is composed of three choirs, a girls … Read more
Vinica is a small, cozy town in the extreme southwestern corner of Slovenia, in the beautiful region of Bela Krajina – White Carniola, perched on a cliff above the border river Kolpa that separates Slovenia from Croatia. While the town is sleepy today, it has had quite a tumultuous history … and so it boasts … Read more
So we are really into archaeology, and we are thrilled that a kite can be a really useful tool for discovering and monitoring of archaeological sites. Aerial archaeology has been a thing for a couple of years now, and we gladly jumped aboard the hype train – uncovering a Roman villa, documenting a prehistoric landscape, … Read more
Well, that’s not quite true, to be honest – we launched a cool kite project that will be the subject of the next post – but our last KAP session was on April 2nd … and we were experiencing severe withdrawal syndroms. It was an unpretentious, nice, cozy little KAP session on Ljubljana Marshes; the … Read more