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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 2010-08-19 11:06:16 -0700, Val Hallah said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mera-kite.html So, what's new? http://activetectonics.asu.edu/kites/06eq.html http://thurly.net/wpd http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ruin_edit2.jpg http://tinyurl.com/2fmoee -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
Per Savageduck:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ruin_edit2.jpg Google Chrome opens that photo very nicely: click on any area and it zooms to that area. Click again and it un-zooms to the original view. -- PeteCresswell |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 2010-08-19 16:41:40 -0700, Nervous Nick said:
On Aug 19, 6:28*pm, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Per Savageduck: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Francisco_in_r... Google Chrome opens that photo very nicely: *click on any area and it zooms to that area. * Click again and it un-zooms to the original view. -- PeteCresswell That is an awesome photo. FF deals with it just fine. I assume it was taken shortly after the 1906 earthquake. Yup. That shot was not exactly a kite shot. That was from an "airship" The shots from the other link were made by flying a camera from a kite. http://activetectonics.asu.edu/kites/06eq.html http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ruin_edit2.jpg I was just making the point that kite, or balloon aerial photography is not new, and sometimes those glass plates could produce some amazing resolution. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite- by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
Savageduck wrote:
On 2010-08-19 11:06:16 -0700, Val Hallah said: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mera-kite.html So, what's new? http://activetectonics.asu.edu/kites/06eq.html http://thurly.net/wpd http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ruin_edit2.jpg http://tinyurl.com/2fmoee To add more fuel to the fire--back in the 1930s Univex (of Univex Mercury single-fame-35mm fame or infamy) made a very cheap Bakelite camera that was extremely small (smaller than most people's hands) which used tiny rolls of film made by Univex, naturally, and perhaps labeled Size #0. Some magazine, most likely Popular Mechanics, published a little article in 1938 or 1939 showing pictures taken from a kite with one of these things. Needless to say, the pictures were horrible. It was activated by some sort of timer, perhaps the kind used on gasoline-powered free-flight model airplane engines of the time. Horrible pictures, but a triumph for cheap. Disclaimer: I was 10 years old in 1939 so my memory of some of the details is sketchy, but I stand by two statements: It was one of the junk Univex jobs, and the pictures were horrible. Incidentally, PopMech in the 30s and on through WWII published a very large number of DIY articles showing how to build enlargers, tripods, film processing equipment, lighting equipment, etc. They also reprinted many of these articles in separate books. I finally gave up and passed my collection on to my son, who considers them to be interesting historic documents rather than things he could make. Now ends your trivial history lesson for the day. Allen |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 2010-08-23 15:12:47 -0700, Grimly Curmudgeon
said: We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Savageduck saying something like: the shots from the other link were made by flying a camera from a kite. http://activetectonics.asu.edu/kites/06eq.html That's exactly how various navies used to lift a man to observe enemy shipping. The manlifter kites were pretty well developed at the start of the 20th C. The photographer, George Lawrence was quite the 19th/20th Century innovator in many fields. http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/ http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-200...2summer130.pdf -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 2010-08-24 00:08:46 -0700, otter said:
On Aug 23, 5:12*pm, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember http://www.flickr.com/photos/billkes...in/photostream / (Not a great picture, but it is Barstow.) Barstow, not the rectum of the World, more like the colostomy bag of the World. It must be the over abundance of the dreaded Toyota Prii ( is that the plural?) in that parking lot, that has effected your judgement regarding image selection. Where is a great red shark when you need one? -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite- by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
otter wrote:
On Aug 23, 5:12 pm, Grimly wrote: We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember http://www.flickr.com/photos/billkes...n/photostream/ (Not a great picture, but it is Barstow.) :-) Not even Barstow but same deal: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...etail/?page=12 |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
"Savageduck" wrote in message news:2010081911354722503-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom... On 2010-08-19 11:06:16 -0700, Val Hallah said: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mera-kite.html So, what's new? http://activetectonics.asu.edu/kites/06eq.html http://thurly.net/wpd http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ruin_edit2.jpg http://tinyurl.com/2fmoee -- Regards, Savageduck What a remarkable shot! Thanks for linking to it, I'm saving a copy. I presume "captive airship" means tethered balloon. |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 2010-08-25 20:31:20 -0700, "Neil Harrington" said:
"Savageduck" wrote in message news:2010081911354722503-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom... On 2010-08-19 11:06:16 -0700, Val Hallah said: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mera-kite.html So, what's new? http://activetectonics.asu.edu/kites/06eq.html http://thurly.net/wpd http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ruin_edit2.jpg http://tinyurl.com/2fmoee -- Regards, Savageduck What a remarkable shot! Thanks for linking to it, I'm saving a copy. I presume "captive airship" means tethered balloon. In George Lawrence's case it means a massive kite system. http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/ -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
"Neil Harrington" wrote in message
... I presume "captive airship" means tethered balloon. It means an airship hijacked Somali pirates. -- Peter |
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