February - 2020

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

Doing Archaeology, Finding Beauty

A part of Ljubljana Marshes northeast of the village if Ig towards Škofljica is a truly fascinating place ... Mainly because thousands of years ago the Pile-dwellers lived here in houses built on stilts over the ephemeral lake. As much as eight distinct pile-dwellings were discovered here in an area just 1 by 0,5 km, inhabited from 4.600 to 3.400 BCE. The pile-dwellings of Ljubljana Marshes are a part of the transnational Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps UNESCO Worl

A Kite Above a Nuclear Reactor

In the sixties Slovenia was ready to go nuclear, and the efforts culminated in the 730 MW Nuclear Power Plant near Krško, built jointly by Slovenia and Croatia, that went online in 1981. . But the first step in going full nuclear was acquiring a small research and training reactor called TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomic) Mark II. This 250 kW light water reactor has a core of around 70 fuel elements consisting of 20 % enriched uranium distributed in zirconiu

A Roman Road and the Power of Multispectral Analysis

Check out this set of kite aerial panoramas shot in different wavelengths - that all conspire to show an ancient Roman road. The first is a visible light panorama of a part of Ljubljana Marshes south of Ljubljana, Slovenia, shot with a Nikon P330. Can you spot a Roman road hidden in the middle of the image? No? The second image shows the red chanel of a near-infrared panorama, shot with NIR-modified Pentax WG-10. Is the 2.000 years old road visible now? The third is a false c

Playing with Infrared - and MASAG α in the Air

Marshes are a perfect target for infrared kite aerial photography, as the interplay of plants and water create an intricate web of patterns when seen in near-infrared light. This can be used for monitoring of such a fragile ecosystem, because the NIR/visual photography brings out small differences, either seasonal or random, like water level changes, spreading of invasive plants, agricultural impact etc. Full-spectrum photo of a part of a meander at Zagradec marsh That said,

Doing Kite Aerial Photography in India

While we had so much fun flying kites in Gujarat, we are *KAP * Jasa, a kite aerial photography-oriented kite club, And surely we've had some cool KAP sessions down there! Most of the time the wind was not suitable for flying a camera, and when it was, patangs on manjhas were threatening anything that flew too high. But when it was all good, it was really good. And at times - spectacular ... Let's start with our second KAP session, that was actually a kite aerial video sessio

Flying Kites in Gujarat

What a time we've had ... Dancers at the opening ceremony of IKF Gujarat 2020 in Saputara. Photo by Nikunj Raghvani. Team KAP Jasa was again invited to Gujarat, India - to represent Slovenia at of the largest kite festivals in the world, International Kite Festival Gujarat 2020. The festival took place in Ahmedabad and numerous other cities of Gujarat from 7th to 14th January, leading up to the great holiday of Uttarayan. And it was a-ma-zing! Slovenia at the opening ceremony

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.