We’ve just returned from an amazing kite & KAP experience on the magical adriatic island of Prvic, Croatia. Prvic and the islands of Šibenik archipelago Prvic is a small island not far from the coast with less than 500 inhabitants, and – after the hordes of tourists leave – it’s a true mediterranean pocket paradise. … 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
While KAP Jasa kite society is mainly doing kite aerial photography, we do kites too … We have made a couple of KAP workhorses (a venerable Rokakku, a couple of deltas, Millie the french military kite, a fled and a Royal 69 sled), but we designed and made some showkites too – to fly them … 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
Yes, we do visit the intermittent Lake Cerknica often. And for a good reason; it is one of the natural wonders of this part of Europe, and it’s a changeling. Every season – no, every month, every week, sometimes even during one day! – it shows a different face. A new, wondrous, unknown, beautful face. … Read more
It’s beer o’clock somewhere, right? This is the main building of Union Brewery – Pivovarna Union – the brewery of Ljubljana (and, according to one member of KAP Jasa team, the producer of the best, if not the only beer in the world – others are just fizzy drinks with low alcohol content). It’s logotype … Read more
We gave up. We admit – we tried, but we failed. We must concede defeat. Stržen creek flows through the dried-up Lake Cerknica. The intermittent Lake Cerknica is one of the greatest karst wonders of the world, an exceptional and fragile ecoysytem, a true mystery of Nature. People living by the lake were using its … Read more
River Mura is the last large lowlands river in Slovenia that still retains its pristine character. Slowly flowing across the Pomurje plain Mura is a biodiversity hotspot, a Natura 2000 area hosting many endangered fish, birds and plants species. In 2018 the river and its floodplain was registered as a UNESCO biosphere reserve; it includes … Read more
As soon as we – Homo sapiens – emerged from them gloomy caves and started to live under the sun, we joined a selected group of animals that had had enough of constant adapting to the environment, and chose a different strategy: to change the environment in order to better suit their lifestyle. And thus … Read more
So now that our Kite society KAP Jasa is all set, we got busy thinking how to do some community outreach, how to bring the kites – kite making, kite flying, and kite aerial photography – closer to the people. In Slovenia there is no kite tradition, apart from those kites your father bought you, … Read more