June - 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

A Hidden Swamp

On Kostanjevica hill north of the village of Bevke on the western part of Ljubljana Marshes landscape park something strange is hiding in the middle of a dense spruce forest. This hole in the forest is a really bizarre natural phenomenon, a quirk of geology, hidrology, and biology: an isolated raised bog called Mali plac. This raised bog formed at least 15.000 years ago in a bowl-shaped depression on the west side of Kostanjevica hill, at the junction of (semi-permeable) dolo

A River of Many Secrets

River Ižica that slowly meanders across Ljubljana Marshes is a regular target of our kite aerial photography efforts. There are many reasons for that, and it being close, on a flat open marsh with acceptable wind patterns is probably even more important than the other one: the thousands of years of human history that have unfolded along its banks. On a very hot and pleasantly windy summer day we were there again. Targeting nothing in particular - not the UNESCO World Heritage

Kite Catcher

A special category of kite aerial photography is taking shots of other kites in action. It is a difficult and challenging enterprise, requiring skill and patience: it's about precision flying among many kite lines each of them eager to send your kite and camera crashing to the ground, while hoping the camera is aimed correctly The CMYK pilot, the Trilobite and the Octopus flying above Ljubljana Marshes There are masters of this art (like Wolfgang Bieck) and we are nowhere clo

Kites Over the Hot Roofs of Zagreb

The pandemic is slowly receding and two of KAP Jasa kite club members - fully vaccinated, of course - finally got the opportunity to fly kites abroad! We were invited to Zagreb by the president of the Croatian Kite Association, and on a hot June weekend we packed some kites and drove to meet our dear friends, our guides in the world of kites (there probably would be no KAP Jasa kite club if we'd never met Žuža and Žare!) ... We came just in time for a kite making workshop for

The Dreamy Beauty of Southern Carniola

River Krka, the largest river of Dolenjska - Lower Carniola - is the second-longest that flows in its entirety in Slovenia, and the largest tributary of river Sava in Slovenia. Krka springs out of Krka cave at the end of a pocket valley near the village of Krka., and flows through Suha krajina region in a beautiful deep valley flanked by fields, meadows, vineyards and scattered villages. Its name, Krka, is pre-Roman, either from krkā; 'swampy', or a simple onomatopoetic, mimi

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.