July is coming to an end and despite full-bodied promises I still haven’t taken any aerial photos. That means, despite the prevailing temperatures, I have to go out into the countryside and fly a kite in weak winds and take a few pictures. Maybe the wind is not so bad and I am just spoiled […]
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Today I’m showing a few more aerial shots to show something more of Fanø. The kite meeting has officially started, the weather has improved enormously and the beach is filled with kites. I will soon write a separate article about the kites and the line decorations that are used nowadays in contrast to earlier times,
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At the moment we are on the Danish North Sea island of Fanø, as has been the case for a few years now. This is where the 38th Kitefliers Meeting is taking place. In the first few years we spent most of our time kite-flying on the beach, but in the last few years more
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I can still remember that I was not very successful in my last KAP attempts at the blast furnace plant on Phoenix-West. Because there was too little wind, the kite did not reach the desired height and I only had pictures that did not show the plant completely. That should be different today. And indeed,
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A monument from the imperial era The 55.50 metre high water tower made of sheet steel, over 110 years old, has a capacity of 2000 cubic metres of water. But today, serious damage to the steel structure urgently needs to be repaired. On the one hand, the water tower is a water reservoir; on the
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In September 2019 I made my first attempt to use my Sony A6000 as a KAP camera. To do this, I had to build a bigger RIG, think about how it could be released and have the courage to send my latest – and most expensive – achievement into the sky. The results didn’t quite
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Now it’s time to start the new KAP year. After all, it was already mid-February when I finally managed to go flying again. And I can’t even blame it on wind and weather, but solely on my convenience. Despite all the plans, this year’s equipment is still exactly the same as in 2020, but why
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For today’s KAP photos I had chosen the Malakow-Tower at the Fürst Hardenberg Colliery. Malakow towers are imposing, brick towers made of stone, reminiscent of a castle. They got their name from Fort Malakow on the Crimean peninsula. Many early Malakow towers were demolished and only a few examples remain in the Ruhr area. The
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For years I didn’t pay any attention to it on the way to my workplace, it was just a path with a few benches and a beautiful view. Only when I searched for aerial photographs on Google Maps did I see that the path on this small hill above the Emscher in Dorstfeld had more
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Because my experiments with the Sony A 6000 on Saturday were not quite crowned with success, I didn’t want to do any more experiments on Sunday, but rather fall back on tried and tested equipment. After all, I had managed to get the A6000 up in the air with the help of the Flare-kite, despite
