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KAP 2008-43: The Citadel, Halifax, Nova Scotia – August 1, 2008

Posted in Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial, aerial photograph, aerial photography, Citadel, Citadel Hill, Dartmouth, Halifax, Halifax Harbour, Halifax Nova Scotia, Halifax NS, harbour, KAP, Kite Aerial Photography, Nova Scotia, NS, The Citadel on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Citadel was my second stop to KAP on my one day visit to Halifax. Light was poor, but when you are only in town for one day and the wind is good, then you do what you can.
These images were created by suspending a camera in a remote-controlled rig on a kite line. The [...]

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KAP 2008-42: Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – August 1, 2008

Posted in Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial photograph, aerial photography, Bedford Basin, Bedford Institute, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, boats, coast guard, Halifax, Halifax Harbour, Halifax Nova Scotia, Halifax NS, KAP, Kite Aerial Photography, MacKay Bridge, Nova Scotia, oceanography, vessels on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After returning from holiday in the midwest USA I made a quick trip to visit one of our daughters in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since I would have most of the day I arrived by myself but with the use of my daughter’s car I took my KAP gear and did two quick KAPs on the [...]

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KAP 2008-41: Grundahl Park, Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin – July 25, 2008

Posted in Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial photography, badger, badger kite, cancer, charity, Craig Wilson, fundraiser, Grumpy Troll, Grundahl Park, KAP, KAP'n Craig, Kite Aerial Photography, kites, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, Mount Horeb, Mount Horeb WI, Mount Horeb Wisconsin, Mt. Horeb, Mt. Horeb WI, Mt. Horeb Wisconsin, Park, Rob Huntley, WI, Wisconsin, Wisconsin badger on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I post these images simply to mark the occasion of meeting Craig Wilson, the famous and infamous kite aerial photographer of Madison, Wisconsin. Craig and I agreed that this KAP should be written off as a non-KAP. The light was so poor this evening and 98% of my shots were blurred (higher ISO would have [...]

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How to Make Tiny Town Miniatures!

Posted in Articles, Kite Aerial Photography, tagged Kite Aerial Photography, KAP, kite photography, aerial photography, Ottawa River, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, covered bridge, winter, ruins, river, Ottawa Ontario, E.B. Eddy, Gatineau Park, Quebec, Rob Huntley, bridge, photoshop, wharf, Aberdeen Pavilion, Cattle Castle, Lansdowne Park, Lansdowne, Frank Clair Stadium, stadium, boats, covered, landscape, Ottawa River Parkway, train, museum, car, tutorial, tips, tricks, ideas, demo, demonstration, fake, tilt-shift, miniature, tiny town, train lines, harbour, Vancouver, Vancouver harbour, passenger train, freight train, crane, slide show, Fishermans Cove, aerial photograph, cove, Fishermans Wharf, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth NS, Dartmouth Nova Scotia, shops, boardwalk, Boondocks, dining room, lounge, tiny tow, Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg Nova Scotia, Lunenburg NS, Lunenburg, NS, Fisheries Museum, Fisheries, Atlantic, ships, yachts, farmhouse, farm house, abandoned, derelict, old, rustic, western, red, red car, traffic circle, traffic, circle, roundabout, traffic roundabout, arrows, Wales, Conwy, Conwy Wales, Champlain Bridge, cars, Canadian War Museum, war museum, Lebreton Flats, grass roof, roof, camouflage, camouflaged roof, bunker, Frank Clair, Lansdowne Park Ottawa, World Wide KAP Weekend, World Wide KAP, Aberdeen, The Cattle Castle, bubble, soccer bubble, sports dome, soccer dome, sports, soccer, dome, winter scene, winter landscape, Wakefield, Chemin Pine on January 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This post demonstrates a process known as “Fake Tilt-Shift” carried out in PhotoShop or other image editing software.
After a mere two weeks of playing with the creation of these miniatures, I don’t imagine I’ve become an expert yet. However, I took the opportunity to share what I’d learned with my camera club, the Camera Club [...]

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KAP 2008-40: The Badlands, South Dakota. July 23, 2008

Posted in Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial photography, Badlands SD, Badlands South Dakota, Bigfoot, Bigfoot Outlook, Bigfoot Viewpoint, car, FLED, hills, KAP, Kite Aerial Photography, outlook, parking lot, rock formations, scenic, scenic outlook, scenic viewpoint, South Dakota, travel, viewpoint, Wall SD, Wall South Dakota on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wall, South Dakota was our stop-over for a couple of nights while we took the opportunity to make several visits to the Badlands. After an evening taking in some driving and bison viewing, we set off the next morning to do some hiking. KAP gear was always at the ready and in the trunk of [...]

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KAP 2008-39: Dakota Mill & Grain, Wall, South Dakota. July 22, 2008

Posted in Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial photography, badlands, dakota mill, Dakota Mill & Grain, Dakota Mill and Grain, feed storage, fertilizer storage, KAP, Kite Aerial Photography, railway, SD, South Dakota, train tracks, Wall, Wall Drug, Wall Drug Store, Wall SD, Wall South Dakota on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

While visiting the badlands we stayed in Wall, South Dakota.
This is Dakota Mill & Grain, Inc. in Wall, South Dakota. My KAP objective was the infamous Wall Drug store on the main street (in the upper left corner of the first photo). Numerous power lines made launching a kite in the downtown area iffy, at [...]

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