Well, this KAP session didn’t go as planned. Here is how it ended, with me fishing the kite and KAP rig out of the water: How that happened is a little longer story… The Mishap The pictures above show Breton Bay, one of the many small bays and inlets in Southern Maryland. Leonardtown, Maryland sitsContinue reading “Kite Fishing (And Not in the Good Way)”
Category Archives: Lessons Learned
First KAP Session with an R/C Rig
The first weekend after finishing the build of my R/C KAP rig, the wind was good enough to test it out. I decided to go to St. Mary’s College, which I’d KAPed one time before, but I hadn’t gotten pictures from quite the best angles. The new rig would allow me to see what theContinue reading “First KAP Session with an R/C Rig”
St. Mary’s College
St. Mary’s College is a small school scenically situated on St. Mary’s River a few miles from where it empties into the Potomac. I had made a couple attempts to fly here in prior weeks without much success. The first time out, the wind seemed plenty strong all day but then died right when IContinue reading “St. Mary’s College”
Lancaster Park – Take Two
One week after my first KAP attempt, I returned to the same park with 200 more feet of line (for 700 feet total) and a new camera — a Canon PowerShot Elph 160. It was equipped with a simple intervalometer script provided by CHDK. The goal this time was to get the camera as highContinue reading “Lancaster Park – Take Two”
My First KAP Session
The day had finally arrived. I finished building my Mini Dopero kite a little over a month before, and now I’d finished building my first picavet rig to lift an old Android phone up into the air. I’d flown the kite several times by that time and was feeling pretty confident with it. The phoneContinue reading “My First KAP Session”
Southern Maryland Kite Aerial Photography 