00699 KAP pics

From the new rig (not that it makes that much difference to the view):

 

I've made a new rig piece to make it easier to put together, but, having gone through the convoluted process of conceptualisation, planning, sketching, 3D implementation and production through powdered resin sintering, I just can't be bothered to lace it all up. Perhaps I should have made something to help me get off my arse.

00698 KAP rig

Here's the new KAP rig, 3D printed and working very well indeed. The hangups are nice and light and really easy to use.

And here's the whole kit together:

The only down side is that, as I could have predicted, I'm going to have to do another version with the sticks poking out the top, rather than the bottom, at it tends to twist up the picavet lines when it's packed away.

Did the house as a test the other day and it came out ok. Just need to get back in to the swing of angling the camera right.

    

00697 KAParoo

New rig (pictures to follow) means similar pictures, but much more riggy than before.

The hangups are also excellent and are displaying (as you would expect), a greater degree of hanginess:

 

That last one has Billy Bragg's house in it. That's the kind of celebrity this pastime attracts.

00693 3D printed KAP rig

We're going on holiday soon and it seemed like a good idea to revamp the collapsible KAP rig I've been toting round for years.

There's a simple model that the poles go in and, first in the video, there's a slightly more elaborate one, with which you can store the poles when transporting the rig. I'll do pictures when it arrives.
There's also new hangups - ditto with the images.

00662 KAPPAGOGO!

The combination of Autumnal winds and holidays have led to an upsurge in the frequency of the resurgence in KAPing. Madness is too small a word for it. Perhaps a longer word would be better. And maybe one with a different meaning.

First there was the mostly insane Fort Cloncque, Alderney:

Then Fort Tourgis, Alderney again:

Then, more recently, Moonfleet Manor Hotel on the South Coast of England by Chesil Beach

 

Clearly, holidays bring out the KAPer in me. I should do it more often. 

00659 KAP!

The Gopro has breathed life back into something that I though had gone by the by. Tiny kite, tiny rig, tiny camera.

 

If I had massive pockets, I'd call it pocket sized - but then I could say the same of my car.

00365 KAP!!!!!

You betcha.

I never really left, you know:

I have to go back and thank Tom for being such a willing model.

Or poser.

I'm not sure which yet.

00328 Rakey, rakey

Did I say I had a new rake? Poring through catalogues of rakes online was coming a little too close to browsing rake-porn, so I bought a child's rake (portable and surprisingly manly, not) and mum gave me her old gravel rake. Good old mum. Did a bit on the beach, KAPed it up etc.

I wonder how many other people are suffering from "image processing backlog blues". Just me again? Thought so. The bigger, wider versions of this are in the queue (isn't that a weirdly spelt word?).

00327 Old and new

Although I try to avoid going over old ground, the last time I KAPed the Vazon causeway it was really gust and it was with my old steam powered camera. So here we go again, old on the left ... it's pretty obvious, really:

Aaaah, yes, much better.

00324

Much though I avoid making my blog into a link farm, this piece about Cris Benton and his KAPing is really engaging:



In fact it's just another reason for me to re-kindle my desire to have "awesomeness" added to the dictionary as a real word (with the definition reading, "may cause Geek").
Of course, to make it a bit more worthwhile I did head out with Kev yesterday to help him sort out his kite. And as I rushed to help him keep his fingers as kite line stripped the flesh from his digits, I remember thinking, maybe I should care less, then I'd get better images than this:



Don't even talk to me about the shots he got.

Oh, you're not. Suit yourself.

00321 Spontaneous causeway KAP

Went for a walk at the weekend and found a bit of wind, a setting sun a causeway, KAP gear and a sympathetic wife. She's so nice to me. Look what she let me do.

Although I don't know why she looks at me with sad eyes when I do it. Maybe she's ovecome by the awesomeness.

00306 Straight

ish

00305 Lihou from the kite

Went to Lihou with Kev with the intention of KAPing - his idea, good one too.

Overcast weather. I'm normally thinking, flat light sucks, but since doing the Strobist thing, now I'm thinking that it's just a different kind of light.

Anyway Kev took two gazillion images, give or take. I stuck with 239, it's a nice round number and it reminds me of the time when something or other happened to me involving the number 239 (a story which I often dine out on).

Here's some from the day:

The house is the one that I was going for, but I like stone walls and I can't seen to stop photoshopping and vignetting. It's an infection I picked up from Flickr, I'm sure of it.

Kev's stuff is here and my my, isn't there alot of it.

Also I started looking at page views and stuff every day since the "9V tradgedy" started getting loads of hits. Look:

Man, I love statistics. I keep thinking that I'll start collecting data from some part of my life and then analyse it. The other part of me tells me to make another blurb book, something nice to put in the loo.

00285 Staff Picks

So I looked at the list of books picked out by the staff at Blurb and mines on it.

'Course, I don't know if it's any good, seeing as I haven't got mine yet.

But it's on the way.

Tee hee.

00284 Ordered

I put up the book on Blurb and ordered a copy. I'm obviously obsessing too much over this, otherwise I'd have time to do and write about something interesting.

Here's the book's page.

idle hands

Sand and water cre...

By Lenny

Book Preview

00282 Booky booky

It's getting close to the time when I can hit the "order book" button, which is proper nice.
I'm just struggling through the last bits that bother me, like whether the images will print out as I want them to, what colours (if any) to use and what words to put in.
When it's all done, it'll be 160 pages long. That might be too big for most people, but for a cheap hardback photo album, it'll suit me just fine.

00280 Another KAPer

So I was out with Kev (aka Ningaloo on flickr) yesterday. He's borrowed my flowform while he waits for his. We headded up to Fort le Marchant and this is the result of his first outing:

Darn site better than my first attempt. He used a Pentax Optio S10 hung using a Brooks KAP kit (really nifty piece of gear) and he's waiting for the arrival of a "Becotized" Sutton 16 (flowform).

Oh, here's mine:

Man, I picked a bland subject - Hackney Marshes. Those were the days. Those were the days of boring KAP shots.

00277 Dan & Lizzie's Wedding

So we went to North Yorkshire for Dan & Lizzie's wedding and along the way I stopped to float my boat(s):

Which was cool, as it was on a proper river and everything. So that meant real pooh stick racing, rather than letting them drift with the wind. As usual the really nice looking ones lost.

Then there was the time-lapsey stuff of the wedding, which worked out pretty well:



And lastly there was the KAP (sadly no wind on the wedding day). This was the place we were staying:

Reasonable productive, I'd say.

Oh ... and Dan and Lizzie got married, of course.