Kite Aerial Photography - Simon Harbord


Welcome to my pages - loosely devoted to the pursuit of kite aerial photography. Every box in the table below is a link to a page describing some aspect of the pursuit, a particular aerial photography shoot, or simply me expounding on some more (or less) philosophical theme associated with KAP.

If you enjoy these pages, please e-mail me.

This site has been on the go over 8 years now, and I'd like to thank all the people who have mailed me with comments over that period, I've been pleased to receive them all, I do try to respond to all notes within a few days.

I've recently made the decision, for various reasons, not to continue to host all of these pages directly. I've made the links point to a web archive site for many of the pages. This should appear fairly seamless in use. This allows me to take down a lot of the pages at Freeserve and claw back some webspace for other projects. You may notice in use that some of the pages have occasional missing images, and some of my nice backgrounds seem to have disappeared. Whatever - the choice was between radically cutting back the site, or using this approach.

With that I'll leave you to browse


WHAT'S NEW ?
NOTE : NEWEST STUFF IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LIST AND THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE

25 March 2001 - finally updated and radically simplified my links page.
10th July 2001 - Hard to believe its so long since I posted. Added a new page on risk taking and KAP.
18 July 2001 - I'm going whale hunting on Sunday, read here why.
22 July 2001 - And read here what happened.
11 August 2001 - The Moscow state Circus came to town, I paid a couple of visits.
16 September 2001 - A short page on a visit to a local aquarium.
23 September 2001 - A page describing a gorgeous 2.4 GHz video camera/transmitter just made for KAP.
5 January 2002 - A trip out in the snow to get some shots of a stone circle.
21 April 2002 - Lost my account at fsnet (that'll teach me not to update the website for a long while) so the newer pages on the site went down. I've set up a new account but the address of those newer pages is harb87 instead of harb86. Hopefully for most visitors this will be seamless, but if you did bookmark any of the newer pages you would have to update the link.
That's the techie stuff out the way, I have quite a few new pages nearing completion so keep an eye out over coming days.
16 May 2002 - posted 2 pages, one I wrote some time ago last year. The other more recent, from a nostalgic trip down south a few weeks ago.
25 May 2002 - A page of diverse images from several KAP forays in recent weeks.
1 June 2002 - A tall ship visits Aberdeen harbour.
6 June 2002 - Discovery, an Antarctic survey vessel.
31 July2002 - Another trip to Orkney.
8 December 2002 - A page on my trip to California for the International Kite Aerial Photography Convention KAPiCA 2002
15 May 2003 - A page of miscellany, first put together a few years ago, finally updated and posted.
26 June - A return to the Angel of the North provokes some thoughts on "going digital".
7 Feb 2004 - A trip to Northumberland for New year
7 August - At last, the trip report for KAPiSco
January 05 - Experiences with developing small automatic KAP systems.
April 05 - AutoKAP adventures continue.
April 06 - turned over about 70% of these pages to archive links to free up space on my Freeserve server for other projects

Here is the table of links to all the pages on this site.
REMEMBER - NEWEST STUFF AT THE BOTTOM


Short biog. piece on myself

Introduction to KAP

Fyvie Castle

Killburn White Horse

Stonehaven War memorial

Aberdeen Cathedral
Farm days
Castles of Grampian

Castle Fraser

3d Stuff

The Angel of the North

KAP Strategies (Long)

A busy week

Some KAP technique animations

Robotic KAP

A micro KAP system

A KAP controller

Breda House - A KAP tale


The ultimate rig - A KAP dream

A gallery of misc KAP images

Some Thoughts on Rig Design

An Orkney Odyssey

A Trip to Dorset

KAP WWW links

Visitor's Gallery - send pictures

Old days with blimps

A face in the sand

A thought

A couple of musings on KAP

A chance to feedback

Some thoughts on kites

KAP connection?

Corgarff Castle

Opportunistic KAP

Portsoy Traditional Boat Festival

KAP failure.

Glenbuchat evenings

A visit to the circus

The merry month of May

Building an aerial viewfinder

A trip to North Wales

2D KAP turned into 3D

An iron age farm

A 3D view of Little Moreton Hall

Visits to Fetternear

Orkney Revisited

A trip to Lincoln

Year 2000 fun

A new type of KAP

A visit down south

Let's Shop !

A favourite rig

A return to Fyvie

Sideways to the sun?

A grand weekend

A day with the TV crew

A holiday in Cyprus

Taking risks in KAP

Whales

The Moscow State Circus

The Macduff Aquarium

Video systems come of age!

Out on a cold day.

Some circular thoughts.

Down south.

A diverse collection

A Tall Ship

Discovery

Orkney again

KAPiCA 2002

Bits and pieces

Digital dillemas

Northumberland

Bonus album

KAPiSco memories

A simple rig

Further AutoKAP page

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This page prepared 1998 - 2005
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Simon Harbord 2005

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