Shopping Cart Sculpture

Great use of light.

This is incredibly clever, where did u get the idea?

Mmmmm, love those patterns...

Appear a bit chaotic. Neither pleasing nor intriging.

Nice catch. Making me feel good to see art out of everyday's object... Composition is strong in this picture. I'll put this image up against portraits of Effel Tower in any second. Very well done Cris.

this is bad ass. i like it a lot. keep it up man.

Not to mention well conceived and well composed. Kite shots, huh? So what's the method? Do you simply select the best after the kite lands? Or can you see what the camera sees via telemetry?

There are a bunch of ways to skin the cat. Some folks send up a camera withan intervalometer and let it click away at a fixed interval. Others use a onetime shutter release (spring timer, ice cube) and can capture aerial images forless than a $20 investment. I belong to the slightly more expensive radiocontrol group. Here I can control the angle and direction of the camera using ahandheld radio. Within the radio-controlled category some folks use a videotransmitter to serve as an electronic viewfinder. I have built one but never useit -- too complicated plus it distracts from flying the kite. This is not to saythat I employ a 'spray and pray' technique. Instead I try to use dead reckoningand imagination to line up the shots. Practice helps.

There is more information on my kiteaerial photography WWW site.

I like the concept of this photograph, yet I find it visually a little bit confusing (not a lot but a little). I was thinking that if more of the actual carts had been included, and the shadow cropped a little bit, there might be a clearer point of reference. Please feel free to ignore my comments if they're not helpful. I really enjoy your photographs.