July - 2019

THE WORLD, VIEWED FROM A KITE

Welcome to the website of aerial photography enthusiasts, taking photos from the air in a natural, organic and gluten-free way: with a kite.

Island at the End of Summer

The Power of Bora

Kite Science: Assessing Water Pollution from the Sky

Prehistoric landscaping

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 we stumbled upon the ancient and sacred art of landscaping. Termite mounds of Namibia. Those intrepid eusocial insects were probably the first landscapers on the planet. Courte

The First KAP Jasa Kite Adventure!

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, those that didn't fly and if they did they ended being eaten by a dreadful kite-eating tree. We thought we really should do something about this - and fill the void in the sky ... We h

KAP JASA TEAM

KAP Jasa stands for Kite Aerial Photography - Janez and Saša. An ingenious name, isn't it?

Janez is the chief pilot, kite designer and maker, photographer and DTP wizard.

Saša is a co-pilot, know-it-all wannabe, pulisher, writer and editor.

We started KAP Jasa in July 2017, some months after the first try of taking pictures with a mobile phone taped to a stunt kite went rather awry. Our first true KAP kite was a 200 cm blue Rokkaku Dako, drawn ands sewn by Janez, and so delicately made it can lift a compact camera in a 5 km/h breeze. A 160 cm Royal 69 Sled followed, suitable for stronger winds, and a 333 cm Great White Delta is the latest addition. All kites are made by Janez on his venerable Ruža sewing machine.

Those kites carry various photo and video equipment: a Braun Jumper II and a Denver 5020TWC action cameras for video, and a Canon A810 compact camera and a Nikon 1 J1 mirrorless camera for stills.