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Hey Chris, I love your work!! I can't help but think that you have an unfair advantage over the rest of us somehow......like using the chopper to get these incredible aerials. I, in my youth, use to take hand held air to air shots while skydiving.....That is another story for another day. I like your images however you are getting them. Always well composed, great action, line and color. Hope to see more soon, Brad

Brad, while I wouldn't mind having a chopper, this photograph and most of the others I have posted on Photo.net are taken from kite-lofted cameras. A kite, unseen in the image, supports a small, radio-controlled cradle that holds a Canon SLR. I can position the camera by walking around and/or letting out or retrieving kiteline. I aim the camera and fire its shuttler using the radio while I stay at the ground end of the kiteline. The camera can rotate through the compass, tilt from horizon to nadir, and change from portrait to landscape format.

As a matter of (questionable) pride all of the images are presented full frame. I compose my images by watching the camera and imagining what it would see. The whole process entertains me to no end.

Details are available at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap

Cheers,

Cris

Cris,

 

Great site about Kite photography. I am jelous of your talent and creativity with the kites and camera. Your shots are truly stunning- please keep posting them for us to enjoy.

 

Steve

Great picture! Very interesting regarding the use of the kite.

Great shot, noce angle (from a plane?)

nice view

Wow; what a combination of skill and ingenuity. I've seen kite photography before, but nothing as ambitious or effective as this.

Cool effect! Well-composed and very well-seen.

Love this shot. Almost like an abstract. The wave has an almost 3D quality to it.

Bravo photo! Bravo technique!

Now that I've been kicking around photo.net for almost a year I've had to come back and revise my rating of this one upwards.

 

I know that gushing in praise isn't terribly helpful, but this is an incredible result. Keep up the good work.

after reading your technique, i was amazed to learn this is full frame. definitely a great/unique approach. just wondering how many frames you go through before turning out one with nice composition? bet using the digital helps out a lot. cool stuff for sures.

this is amazing. I'm a sufer and a photographer, and I'm inspired by your ingenuity and patience. you've captured the waves and the surfers from an angle that simplifies composition to it's basic elements and gives us a view of natural beauty that we haven't seen before. but I'm sure you're aware of that ,aren't you. beautiful photos.

the show keeps going on and on