I keep track of my adventures on this web page, and post the images I like best on Flickr.com

Reclame: Een luchtfoto laten maken? dat kan!

NOTE I am in de process of moving my Kite Aerial Photography pages to a dedicated website: http://www.fotovlieger.nl/

OPMERKING: alle pagina's die gaan over het maken van foto's m.b.v. een vlieger worden binnenkort verhuisd naar een aparte website: http://www.fotovlieger.nl/

PAGE MOVED: http://www.fotovlieger.nl/project/201005_nesselande_newport

A quick KAP session (about 15 minutes) between greenhouses (during KAPiNED/10). 3 KAPers (Simon, Amy and I), 3 kites, 3 cameras and a lot of glass.

A beautiful subject, great warm light, but poor immediate surroundings. I hope they invite me to take pictures at a great location

This is where I live…

While I was KAPing quietly at Maassluis (Nieuwe Waterweg), the Svanen (HUGE crane ship) passed by…

The Erasmusbrug (“Erasmus Bridge”) is a cable stayed bridge across the Nieuwe Maas (English: New Meuse) river, linking the northern and southern halves of the city of Rotterdam

Big buildings on the “Kop van Zuid” on a beautiful early spring morning. These images were taken with a camera lifted by a kite.

The Willemsbrug is a bridge next to the Erasmusbrug in the centre of Rotterdam, spanning the Nieuwe Maas. It links the northern part of the city with the Noordereiland and (in combination with the Koninginnebrug) the district of Feijenoord.

These images have been moved to http://www.fotovlieger.nl/project/201003_waterway

I like those big structures… The Thialf is so large, that it is almost impossible to fly over it with a kite without breaking the rules. Thialf, Heerema's largest deepwater construction vessel (DCV), and is capable of a tandem lift of 14,200 t.

These images have been moved to http://www.fotovlieger.nl/project/201003_mv2_b

Some more land for The Netherlands… 365 million m3 of sand to be moved. KAP conditions were not optimal: feeble wind, grayish sky. I'll be back!

The Maeslantkering is one of the devices designed to stop the sea in case of dangerous storms. I hope it works: the floor of my house is 6 meter below sea level…

This thing is HUGE

These images have been moved to http://www.fotovlieger.nl/project/201002_kinderdijk

Beautiful sunshine, great view, clear sky, unreliable wind

These are the first photos taken with my new radio controlled rig. And the last ones taken with my trusted Canon A710IS: The line went slack when I was not paying (enough) attention, the camera went for a swim The receiver and servos survived the fresh Maas water. The camera's optics did not…

Fresh snow, beautiful sunshine, clear sky, almost no wind…

My first photo series…

I just bought a beautiful new kite: a Rokkaku, size almost 2 meter . I Originally wanted to build it myself, but that would make it more expensive, lower quality, and less beautiful. Now I can concentrate on the camera frame and taking pictures…

I bought it in a kite shop in Schiedam, NL: http://www.depaddestoel.nl. Nice shop, friendly advice: highly recommended!

• KAP on Flickr, my photo stream
• KAP Forum

• http://www.xs4all.nl/~josdeb/Vlieger%20fotografie.html
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~pdj/rok.htm
• http://verlin.tripod.com/Rokkaku1.html
• Lots of details: http://members.cox.net/kiter/rok/rok6.htm

Picavet Cross (source: http://www.kaper.us/basics/BASICS_cheapKAP.html

Good details: http://www.kaper.us/basics/BASICS_picavet.html

• http://www.pcka.org/Know%20Your%20Kite.html
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~pdj/bridling.htm

• switch to manual focus, infinity
• underexpose (1/3 or 2/3 EV)
• fixed aperture?
• interval

• test wit pendulum (less motion blur?)
• modify servo for 180+ deg (pan with 2 servos in series or use gears to get 360 deg ?)