3 Blue Elephants In memory of a kite maker and friend.

How to make 5 new kites out of one I have been thinking for a long time about reducing the size of my box system, which consists of… Read more: New Triple Box Kite

A New Year means new hope, new light, new thoughts and new paths to the goal. I wish all visitors a good start to the year 2025. And… Read more: A new year

A new kite and a makeover Let’s start with the redesign: I had already made the hexagon kite with the Dortmund coat of arms a little smaller, but… Read more: New kites

Although a little late, I would first like to wish all visitors a Happy New Year 2024. After weeks of waiting for better weather-either it was raining or… Read more: Kappy 2024

Rendsburg-Picavet with miniature blocks As a long-time user of a pendulum, I had long wanted to give the Picavet suspension a try. I have tried this suspension a… Read more: Rendsburg-Picavet with miniature blocks

Survey: Active Kapers

is often associated with harvested fields and bales of straw. Here in Dortmund, the grain harvest was repeatedly delayed by the wet weather. The straw bales also lay… Read more: The end of summer

What was foreshadowed last year at the KAP meeting in Fanø actually happened: the lens of my Canon S110 extended only reluctantly and then unfortunately did not retract… Read more: KAP camera does not work anymore

A few pictures from our holiday during the Kite Fliers Meeting 2023.  These are both aerial shots and pictures of kites in the sky, real kites, with sticks… Read more: Fanø 2023

After I had paid close attention to the correct clamping when reassembling, the new cotton cody flew quite excellently. Of course, you have to take into account that… Read more: Cody flies over Fanø

The short-winged cotton Cody has successfully completed its first flight. With an overcast sky over Fanø, it rose almost flawlessly in 4 Bft. I adjusted the bridle a… Read more: Maiden flight in hazy weather

In a post from 23.03.2016 I expressed at the time the intention to complete a cody made of cotton as a new project until the kite festival in… Read more: Cody War Kite – Standard Wing (Short Wing)

Rape brings colour to the landscape! Since April and May are the rape blossom season, I went in search of some beautiful motifs for my aerial photographs. On… Read more: Rape blossom time

I gave my kites a thorough inspection and found that they needed some reworking. No wonder after years of use and lack of care. Today I tested the… Read more: Cody test flight

When the weather outside is not exactly conducive to kite flying, let alone KAPing, you can take good care of your equipment. That means you can now make… Read more: Winter time is (re)construction time

Even though there was no news from me for a while, I was still active: here are a few pictures I took in the meantime. The weather was… Read more: More kite aerial photos from summer and autumn

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… Read more: Summer in Dortmund

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… Read more: FANØ WORLDWIDE KAP MEETING 2022 – Part 2

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… Read more: FANØ WORLDWIDE KAP MEETING 2022

Finally some new aerial photos. After a general lack of enthusiasm and having overcome a viral infection, I finally managed to pull myself together and send a kite… Read more: New pictures in old surroundings

in between is certainly not entirely wrong. I don’t really know why I haven’t been flying and taking aerial photographs so often recently. I just didn’t have the… Read more: A sign of life…

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,… Read more: Dortmund (Industrial) Monuments, Part 2

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… Read more: Dortmund (Industrial) Monuments, Part 1

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… Read more: Testing a new camera -2. attempt

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… Read more: New year – old location

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… Read more: Malakow-Tower at Fürst Hardenberg Colliery

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.… Read more: KAP in Dorstfeld and at University of Dortmund

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… Read more: Stormy conditions

Finally I managed to do it again: I was able to pull myself together and take some KAP pictures of the autumnally coloured Grävingholz. As a “new pensioner”… Read more: Dortmund Autumn

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The Nazca Lines, often also written Nasca Lines, are more than 1500 huge, only from the air visible and recognizable scratch pictures (geoglyphs) in the desert near Nazca… Read more: Nazca lines in Dortmund too?

This time a view over “my” quarter in the north of Dortmund. My house is also on it. ? On the left side in the foreground the allotment… Read more: Dortmund from above

The north of Dortmund can certainly be described as green. In fact, there is not only industrialisation and remnants of coal and steel here in the Ruhr area,… Read more: The north of Dortmund

The KAPiFanø meeting announced below unfortunately cannot take place this year and has been postponed to 13-20 June 2021. Due to the corona crisis, the Danish government has… Read more: KAPiFanø 2020 is postponed

The banner has recently arrived on its worldwide journey and is now just a stopover on its way to a major event in the KAP community: the KAPiFanø… Read more: Great events cast their shadows

2 more photos I took during this year’s World Wide KAP Week I have chosen motifs in the neighborhood, because I did not feel much desire to drive… Read more: WWKW 2019-even more photos

       

This year’s WWKW has already started on September 14th and will continue until September 29th. Thus, there are 3 weekends, and of course the rest of the week to… Read more: World Wide KAP Week 2019

Now when the weather is starting to get a bit more pleasant- not just for taking aerial photos- I’ve managed to catch some aerial photograph by use of… Read more: Dortmund from above