July 16, 2003
KAPs of our Innocence
As I occasionally do, I spent this evening picking through cardboard boxes sloppily crammed with bundles of photo negatives. I would like to bring it to some order, but the photos arrive far faster than they get sorted. I did a very crude categorization of the photos I took between 1999 and 2002. One of the categories was Kite Aerial Photography.
Below is one of my favorite shots, scanned at 4000dpi, cropped and adjusted, and ultimately reduced in resolution and size. Still looks pretty sharp. Also, I post a zoom-in which demonstrates how much detail the scanner can actually pull up from this scratched negative. (Thank God for the Clone Tool and Healing Brush)
The funny thing about these photos is that they are among the best we took in our many flights, but actually, the rig was a version 1.0 model, with no aiming system and some really kludgy gearing.
The photos were taken along the Pacific Coast, south of Half Moon Bay. 31die always liked to take the backroads from Palo Alto, over the hills, to the coast.
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