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
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” you have to get used to the new era and find your rhythm. The wind was quite fresh at times and also the clouds looked as if
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 and Palpa in Peru. The Paracas culture and the Nazca culture are considered to be the originators of the lines. The Nazca Plain shows straight lines, triangles
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