YOUR Kite Aerial Photography!

The Odd, Strange or Mysterious...

At one end, you have people who decide on a whim to hoist a cheap digital camera from a single line attached to a kite. Any old kite that has enough lift. The 10 second timer goes off sometime during the kite's climb, and hey! An aerial photo!

At the other end of the spectrum, the KAPer might be a serious photographer who patiently pans and clicks his expensive digital camera via a radio transmitter.

The kite might be an enormous Dopero or Rokkaku, 'nailed to the sky' in a light breeze. A 4-line Picavet suspends the camera cradle and radio gear from the flying line rather than the kite itself.

Do YOU Do KAP?

Good photographers tend not to just give away their best work, so I'm not actually asking for that here... Let's go for the odd, strange, mysterious, arty, humorous, inventive - anything but a quality landscape ;-)

Go for it, 10 second timer guys! (and girls)

Mind you, if you really would like to share a terribly serious top-notch 'cliffs rising over stormy coastline' or some-such, then I'll still let it through...

Aerial Pictures Left By Others

Click below to see some intriguing aerial photos from other visitors to this page...

Now, how's this... From time to time I will feature my favorite contributed image on the Home Page of this high-traffic website! Also, the image will stay up on the Home Page until another one takes my fancy. It could be there for weeks or even months!

Thinking Of Contributing? Please Read...

Visitors to this Kite Aerial Photography page will really appreciate any extra info you can supply. The quirky aerial pictures are 'the main thing' sure, but people will love it if you type in a short description of how everything came together to get that shot. What kind of KAP rig did you use? (if you can even call it that!) Which of your kites did you use? What was the camera, and how did you operate the shutter? And so on.

Now, a couple of tips for best results...

Aerial pictures straight from your camera can be uploaded successfully. However, transferring these large raw digital images can take many minutes over a slow Internet connection. Re-sizing the image to around 100Kb or so will still result in a high-quality image on a computer screen. If you haven't done this before, try using Piknik, a free photo-editing service that runs in your browser.

For maximum impact on my site, a photo that's taller than it is wide works best. This way, when my site re-sizes the photo to fit the page, it will appear as large as possible since there is no limit on depth.

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