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Funny. These views shot with a camera attached to a kite are pretty much exactly like what our hearts see – and feel – when we stroll around this amazing place.
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The island itself is at first sight deceptively unremarkable. Deceptively. Once there you realize immediately why the noble families of Šibenik – Faust Vrančić included – chose Prvić for their base of joie de vivre and dolce far niente …
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These were shot at the last possible moment during the 12th Creative Days of Faust Vrančić festival – the wind finally showed up on Sunday afternoon, just before we had to leave.
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It’s always nice when a kite with a camera catches other kites up there in the wind …
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How peaceful and detached they are, aetheral creatures, almost not of this world …
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We shan’t go into turbulences that rule above this gentle island again – we took the kite through seven rolls this time, couldn’t pull it above the eighth – we just want you to feel like we did there.
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We tried to convey all this with poems, with detailed description, with droning about the architectural ensemble of Prvić (a strictly protected cultural heritage) and the natural beauty of Šibenik archipelago … but words can’t really do it.
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So images must do – and even they are struggling.
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As were struggling the intrepid kite aerial photographers, contorting themselves into most unnatural shapes to coax the kite higher up …
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… just in front of the Faust Vrančić Memorial Centre.
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Six sacred groves of Prvić: planted by Hercules, watered by Athena;, Apollo making them grow1 … watching from above where only birds, kites, gods and hearts dare.
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Is it Nature chiseling the people of Prvić in her image, or does the island and the air above it glow with such exceptional warmth because of them?
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Who knows …
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Who cares …
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… when everything glimmers …
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Some things last a long time.
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Some things last forever.
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Are these views but shadows of what our hearts see flying above the island?
Yes …
Come, see Prvić with your own eyes, touch it with your own hands and feet.
Kite aerial photos shot with Insta Ace Pro on a radio-controlled picavet in autoKAP mode (this picavet was a present from our dear friend Sandro Macchi – SMAC), carried into the sky by a Dr.Agon kites‘ Original Blue Rokkaku.
- Young Faust Vrančić wrote a poem about the coat of arms of Vrančić family:
Ljiljana šest što cvijet im iz debla Vrančića cvate
Radini zasadi Alkid, a Palada vodom ih zali;
Krijepi ih onaj što sve s visina promatra – Febo.
A crude translation: six lilies flower off the Vrančić family trunk; Alcides (Hercules) planted them, Pallas (Athena) watered them, and Phoebus (Apollo) is making them grow, watching from above.
The poem is interesting, as young Faust humorously, vainly and defiantly paraphrased a very sacred text, Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians. He took a line (1 Cor 3:6; I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.), made it praise his family (strength, wisdom), and replaced God with Phoebus Apollo – standing for Renaissance, Scientific revolution, Age of Enlightenment …
Quite edgy for the late 16th Century – especially as Faust later became a Bishop, and later still a member of the order of Barnabites, Clerici Regulares Sancti Pauli … 🙂
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I love your shots. It.s always a pleasure to see the world from above and realisiert what U see in the picture that U thought it could be before.
I sometimes think it.s sorry that I didn.t carry on with my KAPing experience.
Keep going on!
Thank you, Ulli! 🙂