It was a hot afternoon with a steady breeze, and I had a couple hours available, so I decided to head to Chancellors Run Park. It is a site I have flown at many times before, but I haven’t taken good aerial photos there recently. The last time was with my old PowerShot SD1400IS, whichContinue reading “High Above Chancellors Run Park”
Category Archives: Lexington Park
KAP at Home
Ever since I started doing KAP last year, I’ve wanted to see what my neighborhood looks like from the air. Actually, I had a good idea already, since I’ve been flying my FPV (first-person view) radio-controlled airplane from an open area at the end of my road. But the camera only does low-resolution analog video,Continue reading “KAP at Home”
Back to Chancellors Run Park
A couple weeks since my last outing, the leaves on the trees were a bit more colorful, and Chancellors Run Park was calling me for another KAP session. My goals for this time out were: Take some pictures towards the north, where there should be some interesting things to see. Capture some Fall colors. IfContinue reading “Back to Chancellors Run Park”
New Kite, Old Park
I had been thinking about making a new kite for a little while. The Mini Dopero has a nice wind range, but it struggles to stay in the air (much less lift a rig) in light winds, and of course it has an upper limit too, of about 20 mph. So the question was whetherContinue reading “New Kite, Old Park”
One More Try at Lancaster Park
I decided to return to Lancaster Park again. If you read my last post, you’ll know that I had a lot of lessons learned. The purpose of this session was to try to incorporate some of those lessons. Plus, I knew from my first time out that looking north from this park had the potentialContinue reading “One More Try at Lancaster Park”
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 