We spent a pleasant Saturday afternoon at Pt. Reyes out toward Drakes Beach and Chimney Rock. A persistent marine haze was the major KAP story. My digital cameras really don’t do very well with haze under good conditions. So I worked on images that opposite the sun and took a large number of surf and [...]

I seem to be one a bit of a panorama jag these days and I think it relates to two specific shortcomings of my current digital KAP rig. My ‘go to’ rig these days is the Canon SD800is cradle. It is fun and convenient to fly. While I enjoy the camera’s relatively wide 28-mm equivalent [...]

The Makers Faire event is not principally, or even in large part, about kites. But it should be a pretty cool gathering anyway.
This is the second year that the Makers Faire has been organized by the MAKE Magazine folks at O’Reilly Publishing. I worked with them way back when the magazine was a conceptual idea [...]

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.