May - 2021

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

The Spark and the Rainbow

Our Old Blue Rokkaku was getting really old, and since it was the very first kite made by kitemaster Janez Vizjak of Dr.Agon kites, it was decided to preserve it before it would be lost in some freak kite accident. But we need a low-wind lifter, so master Vizjak made a new one called The Spark: a 2 m by 1,55 m Sanyo Rokkaku, The venerable Blue Rok (left) and The Spark We went to Ljubljana Marshes kite proving grounds for the first KAP session of The Spark - and what a test fl

A Strange Creature Above the Marshes

We went back to Kozler forest in the Ljubljana Marshes landscape park - but this time we didn't plan a kite aerial photography session. We invited a couple of friends to show them what a show can show kites make! photo Aleš Obersnel Masterpieces of Dr.Agon kites chief designer and kitemaker Janez Vizjak, together with a Trilobite and an Octopuss, lit up the cloudy skies. CMYK lifter with the Squid and the Jellyfish As soon as the first large kite soared, the kids went "Wooooo

Order and Disorder

River Ižica is one of the few rivers on Ljubljana Marshes that are mostly untouched, flowing as it pleases, meandering aimlessly and freely - disorderly? - in a striking contrast to the straight, constrained, utilitarian canals that crisscross and drain the Marshes. There are many reasons for this, but the main is that Ižica is not unlike goddess Athena :-) This 12 km long, slow-flowing, muddy-bottomed river actually springs in her almost full form straight from the rock - th

Triple Bill Above Kozler's Forest

It was a beautiful windy and appropriately sunny Sunday afternoon, and Kozler's forest - a strictly protected natural monument on Ljubljana Marshes landscape park - is just a couple of kilometers away. Such an opportunity for a KAP session or two is not to be missed! Kozler's forest (or Kozler's Thicket) is the largest remnant of a bog forest on Ljubljana Marshes. It represents the last phase of the evolution of a marsh, with tall trees (oaks, hornbeams, pines, birches etc.)

Not All Roads Lead to Rome

A chance look at the right part of a LIDAR map led to a two-part KAP session, over 500 multispectral kite aerial photos, hours of image processing, NDVI calculations and contrast enhancing, poring over maps plotting directions and trying to disentangle everything - and when it finally started to make sense a real archaeologist deflated us with a laconic "probably not Roman" ... Well - probably my ass. Here is the story. It all began with this: From a beautiful and free onlin

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.