Kite Aerial Photos

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46 Comments (Kite Aerial Photos)

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  1. Tim McGinty said on April 27, 2002 at 11:30am

    DUDE! Those pics are tight! Thanks for sending them to me. I have wallpapered that first bird’s eye view circular shot of Point Bonita. This is Tim, the really tall PB docent that was watching you all fly that kite out on the lighthouse side. I’m sure you remember. Those pics are great. I am sending them on to my friends across the country. It’s really neat to see that area from a different angle, lens, everything. Very cool. I hope that the guys at the visitor center save some of those photos. Great stuff. Thanks again for sending them, and come out again! Tim

  2. Matt Haefner said on April 29, 2002 at 4:53am

    Scott-The pics are great! Waiting to see more of them posted.

  3. samar said on April 30, 2002 at 6:13am

    I just say oh my God!!! thats wonderful!! really can t beleive !!Thank you very much

  4. Rhonda Brown said on April 30, 2002 at 11:21pm

    I wanted you to know that I think your pictures are awesome and that you should be doing this for a living!!!!! Anyway, I came, I saw, I asked if you were a pro photographer and they said that you didn’t feel your work was good enough. I am here to tell you that as a property manager, I have paid (quasi)professionals to do lesser art! Think About It! :) Take Care and Keep Up The Great Work. How Ingenious on the Kite Photography!

  5. anton ardjanggi said on April 30, 2002 at 11:38pm

    Nice Job!

  6. anton ardjanggi said on April 30, 2002 at 11:40pm

    Great pics by great photographer!

  7. Jen Haefner said on May 1, 2002 at 1:48am

    Scott-You are so talented and really have a gift! You sell yourself short and you are amazing at taking goreous pictures. I think you should try to get these kite pictures into a gallery somewhere. You are an artists and should be sharing this with others(besides friends and family) who would appreciate and LOVE your talent also! I’m not just saying this because you’re my “other” brother-you have something special and it’s SO incredible! Thanks for sharing with us, I feel priviledged to get to see your work. Keep doing the things you love! PEACE, Jen

  8. tom said on May 4, 2002 at 6:46am

    Scott, Too cool! Care to share techniques? Tom in Key Largo, FL PS this would be great off a boat over shallow reefs down here!

  9. Linda said on May 7, 2002 at 1:15pm

    Hi there from the Ozarks. My sister and brother-in-law just sent me your website to see and it is fantastic. They are tour guides for the lighthouse and are always talking about how beautiful it is. You have truly captured the very best of it and the surroundings. Thanks for sharing your photography.

  10. Michael D. Murphy said on May 17, 2002 at 1:51am

    Great shots! Methinks I may have a new use for my Nikon 950! Can I do this with my stunt kite? Stunt cam! Oh no, another gadget project…. Seriously nice pics. Love the panoramas.

  11. Brooks Leffler said on May 17, 2002 at 3:57pm

    Very commendable group, Scott! Congratulations!

  12. Brooks Leffler said on June 10, 2002 at 3:17pm

    Nice mix of fisheye and normal lenses. You sure do get around fast in three months!

  13. Koral Ahmet said on June 21, 2002 at 1:01pm

    Wonderful pictures and nice rig. I use a simple pendulum for hanging my digital camera. The picavet system looks too complicated. Is it worth switching? Looks like California is the place to be for KAP. Shame Redlands doesn’t have the same thrilling locations as Santa Cruz.

  14. Sean McMahon said on September 25, 2002 at 1:52pm

    what is the maximum height you can achieve with this. Is it possibe to get to 850’ elevation in a central business district?

  15. h said on November 10, 2002 at 11:52am

    this is the best, ever. i’ve been flying kites for years and toyed with the “camera up there” idea but i didn’t want to see my SLR smashed to bits on the rocks. the shots are phenomenal and i’m going to persue this idea again. thanks, h.

  16. Tom said on November 11, 2002 at 10:44am

    More money than brain$. Yes, the pic$ are great, but who was your $ponsor. To hang that much gear off a kite i$ stupid. What next, a low level rocket launch?

  17. chris said on November 15, 2002 at 10:54am

    I hope you ignore the comments from that negative guy, Tom. Your pictures and site are great, keep up the good work!!

  18.   said on November 16, 2002 at 6:24am

    That is too cool. The possibilities are endless.

  19. Tom Melanson said on November 21, 2002 at 9:07am

    A wild and very creative idea! Pix are good too!

  20. tang??r altanay said on December 9, 2003 at 2:45am

    i like most of them it they are realyy good. love from turkey

  21. Akihiko said on April 27, 2004 at 1:38pm

    Funny Great works. Thank you.

  22. robert said on April 29, 2004 at 10:39am

    interesting work – do you do contract work for the public ?? how much would you charge ?

  23. Paha_L said on June 29, 2004 at 2:11am

    Cool photos. Big expirience. This is my first KAP from Russia after i read lette in jounal DP http://photofile.ru/default/do.php?aid=129312&np=y

  24. M Burke said on July 1, 2004 at 2:15pm

    Love the pics of Shelter Cove. :-)

  25. Chris Gillespie said on September 8, 2004 at 9:06pm

    For the first time, I have some idea of what it is like to be a bird. Wonderful. Thank You.

  26. Charles Hancock said on October 21, 2004 at 12:43am

    Excellent photos, exhillirating art.

  27. Ellen Carnahan said on October 27, 2004 at 4:23pm

    Your photos are incredibly beautiful - very inspiring! I would love to see more of your geological photos.

  28. zAg said on November 8, 2004 at 8:00pm

    CrAtivity Come to the phOtOgraphy….Only oNe wOrd I jUst wAnT tO sAy..AmaZinG….

    peAce…
    zAg…

  29. most inspirational and more said on November 10, 2004 at 2:15am

    when inspiration and the visual exceed the courage then the image made before the excape is the one that we linger to survive and see later, we hope. Thanks, i survived to see and enjoy both. Thanks, very much.

  30. frances said on November 21, 2004 at 7:36pm

    Fantatic Thank you for a beatiful view of things I’ll never see.

  31. Mike said on November 21, 2004 at 8:33pm

    I love the Bryce pics!! They also opened RIGHT now with zero hesitation!. Good job!!!

  32. Randy Hammer said on November 23, 2004 at 5:58am

    You have a wonderful hobby. Thanks for sharing your amazing and beautiful pictures with the world.

  33. Claudia DE Chile said on December 25, 2004 at 7:43pm

    es verdaderamente hermoso lo que se puede admirar desde las alturas, es una l?°stima que no todos podamos apreciarlo.

  34. photo_student said on January 13, 2005 at 8:11am

    does the photographer choose when the picture is taken while on the kite or is it automatic?

  35. MATA said on February 18, 2005 at 10:28am

    THANK YOU

  36. steven jones said on February 26, 2005 at 6:14am

    My mother grew up in this town of Deauville, I personally havent visited in a few years. Looking at the pics touched me and gave me a tearful moment of retuening and remembering.

  37. Joan & Lloyd said on March 18, 2005 at 7:40pm

    The pictures of Alivso and Drawbridge took us back 30 years ago when we lived on a boat in the Alviso slough. Great photos and awesome web site!

  38. lauranna said on July 7, 2006 at 9:13pm

    wow wow wow i love your pics wow

  39. Kloppy from Germany said on August 27, 2006 at 1:50pm

    Hi there, searching for information about famous frenchman Yann Arthus-Bertrand I found this website and i’m very impressed by the artwork! Fantastic pics, nice locations that I didn’t expect, and nice kite work. Would like to see more in the future. Thanks

  40. Sauna said on October 26, 2006 at 6:32am

    I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!

  41. juanito said on October 28, 2006 at 7:25am

    Alguin que hable espaŅol. Ya se que no es lugar de chat, pero quiero alguien que conozca de la pagina.

  42. Somebody said on November 15, 2006 at 8:30pm

    Is this a pic taken in panama i hope so i need one for school

  43. syed yasir ahmed said on April 22, 2008 at 10:56am

    nice photographs i want to know , can you have those images with geospatial information xyz coordinates i meant to say can we use in GIS

  44. Yannis said on April 27, 2008 at 6:49pm

    These are incredible. You have an eye for the perfect angle.

  45. Ahmet Erciro said on May 2, 2008 at 1:16am

    I really enjoyed your photos. I enjoyed so much I decided to try that my self. As I live in a extremely windy city (Istanbul) Lifting a heavy dSLR might not be a problem. D70s or a D300 with a ultra wide angle or a 10.5mm fisheye lens.

    As for Syed Yasir Ahmed’s question. If you add the GPS to the kite and sync the clock in both the camera and the GPS then you can later GeoTag the photos with the GPX info from the GPS. The GPS does save the altitude information. In addition by using Nikon D200, D300 cameras you can connect the much smaller, lighter Sirf Star III gps to the camera and each time it shoots a photo also adds the GPS info to the EXIF of the photo.

    Thanks for the given information here. That really helps a lot.

    Take care,
    Ahmet

  46. MW said on July 6, 2009 at 10:46pm

    These photos are phenomenal! I have just sort of gotten into photography and I really love it in general. But these photos really opened up a whole new way of viewing things. I think the aerial perspective enhances the beauty in all the things that were shot, because I think if those things were shot from the ground they would be so much less impactual than the shots taken from the air. Well done, this is a fantastic art form and I think you have inspired me to try this beautiful way of capturing photos. Ps. These photos should be put in a gallery, trust me they are worth it.