Over on the kite discussion page Pierre Lesage asked for help with an infrequent but nevertheless vexing KAP problem.
“What is the best way you have found to bring down the kite line in a heavy wind situation when you cannot “walk” the kite down? (standing on a small platform or too many obstacles to walk [...]

For some reason it has always been agreeably easy for me to get stereo pair images to ’snap’ into 3D by crossing my eyes or going walleyed. I should probably credit the many occasions when I ignored my Mother’s “stop it — your eyes will freeze like that” admonitions. In any event, I often scan [...]

There has been an interesting thread on the KAP Discussion page about motion blur and this led me to think about the keys to reducing motion blur. Many of these have come out in the comments – separate camera from kite, set aperture priority to achieve highest shutter speed, use a good suspension, Pekabe blocks [...]

This Sunday I took an end-of-day break from taxes and wandered over to campus for some quick photographs. From this session I posted this photograph on Flickr:

Sather Tower at UC Berkeley taken with the 28-mm equivalent lens of the Canon SD800is
The post sparked some questions regarding technique. Read on to see my response.