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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:06:16 -0700 (PDT), Val Hallah
wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mera-kite.html Let's see.... I flew a Brownie Box camera on a string of 4 box-kites 47 years ago. Using a string dipped in potassium-nitrate to make it into a slow-burning fuse. It would eventually, many minutes later, burn the string that was stretching the rubber-band attached to the shutter release. You timed the delay by the length of the string-fuse. He's 47 now, he got his first camera when he was 12. That's 35 years ago. Yet he invented aerial kite photography. The only reason I did it was because so many had done it before me with much more elaborate equipment. Fancy "Cody Box-Kites" being the preferred lifting device for kite aerial photographers. I was an extremely precocious child. I wanted to see if I could do it even more inexpensively using whatever I had at hand. The paper box-kites, 4 of them for enough lift for that heavy Brownie-cam, cost me a whopping $3.00 at the time. That put a hefty dent in my piggy-bank. I would have made the kites, but I was too anxious. 4 of them would have taken a long time. The cotton string and rubber-band from a junk-drawer, the potassium-nitrate from my home-brew chemistry kit. Back then you could buy just about any chemical you wanted from the local drug-store. Oh, I forgot to mention. I also added a wind-vane made of a discarded aluminum pie-pan to the back of the camera. So I could point the camera in whatever direction to the wind that I wanted. Yeah, sure, he was "the inventor of 'kite-ography'. Google for KAP (kite aerial photography) if you want to get a history lesson of cameras being flown on kites. I bet Al Gore is this guy's brother. You know Al? The chap that invented the internet. The pomposity of these foolish brits never ceases to amaze. |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT), DanP
wrote: On Aug 19, 9:08*pm, Joel Connor wrote: I bet Al Gore is this guy's brother. You know Al? The chap that invented the internet. The pomposity of these foolish brits never ceases to amaze. The guy is French. And Al Gore is American. DanP The report is coming from british sources, you fool troll. And I guess it is far beyond your comprehension of how someone who was born in France can't be a sibling of someone born in America. Can this DanP troll get any more stupid? |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:19:33 -0700 (PDT), DanP
wrote: On Aug 19, 9:44*pm, Joel Connor wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT), DanP wrote: On Aug 19, 9:08*pm, Joel Connor wrote: I bet Al Gore is this guy's brother. You know Al? The chap that invented the internet. The pomposity of these foolish brits never ceases to amaze. The guy is French. And Al Gore is American. DanP The report is coming from british sources, you fool troll. And I guess it is far beyond your comprehension of how someone who was born in France can't be a sibling of someone born in America. Can this DanP troll get any more stupid? The guy's name is Nicolas Chorier. You either have not read the article or you believe it could be a British name. With Al Gore you had shot yourself in the foot. DanP Your own words shoot yourself in the foot. Country of origin has nothing to do with citizenship. Now, have you ever done any KAP? Or are you just here to troll for attention on totally unrelated topics? No wait, don't bother to answer that. Going by 100% of your history, it will be clear that you're going to make something up with zero proof, just like you always do for more attention for yourself while residing in your mommy's basement. Bye bye troll. |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite- by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 20/08/2010 12:38, Val Hallah wrote:
On Aug 20, 11:21 am, wrote: On Aug 20, 6:48 am, Val wrote: On Aug 19, 10:08 pm, Joel wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:06:16 -0700 (PDT), Val Hallah wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-The-stunning... Let's see.... I flew a Brownie Box camera on a string of 4 box-kites 47 years ago. Using a string dipped in potassium-nitrate to make it into a slow-burning fuse. It would eventually, many minutes later, burn the string that was stretching the rubber-band attached to the shutter release. You timed the delay by the length of the string-fuse. He's 47 now, he got his first camera when he was 12. That's 35 years ago. Yet he invented aerial kite photography. The only reason I did it was because so many had done it before me with much more elaborate equipment. Fancy "Cody Box-Kites" being the preferred lifting device for kite aerial photographers. I was an extremely precocious child. I wanted to see if I could do it even more inexpensively using whatever I had at hand. The paper box-kites, 4 of them for enough lift for that heavy Brownie-cam, cost me a whopping $3.00 at the time. That put a hefty dent in my piggy-bank. I would have made the kites, but I was too anxious. 4 of them would have taken a long time. The cotton string and rubber-band from a junk-drawer, the potassium-nitrate from my home-brew chemistry kit. Back then you could buy just about any chemical you wanted from the local drug-store. Oh, I forgot to mention. I also added a wind-vane made of a discarded aluminum pie-pan to the back of the camera. So I could point the camera in whatever direction to the wind that I wanted. Yeah, sure, he was "the inventor of 'kite-ography'. Google for KAP (kite aerial photography) if you want to get a history lesson of cameras being flown on kites. I bet Al Gore is this guy's brother. You know Al? The chap that invented the internet. The pomposity of these foolish brits never ceases to amaze. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dacre I do not defend Daily Mail and Paul Dacre. The mistake of calling a French man the inventor of KAP is not British pomposity. It would had been if they mentioned the first photographer to do it, Douglas Archibald. And mentioning American pomposity (Al Gore) destroys the whole point. DanP reomposity....it seems he has a strong US influence....;-) I don’t see how anybody can go to America, work there for six years and not be enthralled by the energy of the free market. America taught me the power of the free market, as opposed to the State, to improve the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people. Including all those ruined by subprime loans... -- Bertrand |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite- by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
Joel Connor wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:06:16 -0700 (PDT), Val Hallah wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mera-kite.html Let's see.... I flew a Brownie Box camera on a string of 4 box-kites 47 years ago. Using a string dipped in potassium-nitrate to make it into a slow-burning fuse. It would eventually, many minutes later, burn the string that was stretching the rubber-band attached to the shutter release. You timed the delay by the length of the string-fuse. He's 47 now, he got his first camera when he was 12. That's 35 years ago. Yet he invented aerial kite photography. The only reason I did it was because so many had done it before me with much more elaborate equipment. Fancy "Cody Box-Kites" being the preferred lifting device for kite aerial photographers. I was an extremely precocious child. I wanted to see if I could do it even more inexpensively using whatever I had at hand. The paper box-kites, 4 of them for enough lift for that heavy Brownie-cam, cost me a whopping $3.00 at the time. That put a hefty dent in my piggy-bank. I would have made the kites, but I was too anxious. 4 of them would have taken a long time. The cotton string and rubber-band from a junk-drawer, the potassium-nitrate from my home-brew chemistry kit. Back then you could buy just about any chemical you wanted from the local drug-store. Oh, I forgot to mention. I also added a wind-vane made of a discarded aluminum pie-pan to the back of the camera. So I could point the camera in whatever direction to the wind that I wanted. Yeah, sure, he was "the inventor of 'kite-ography'. Google for KAP (kite aerial photography) if you want to get a history lesson of cameras being flown on kites. I bet Al Gore is this guy's brother. You know Al? The chap that invented the internet. The pomposity of these foolish brits never ceases to amaze. Oh, please don't assume the Daily Mail is representative of Britain. No more than Fox news represents the USA. What's quite interesting (assuming the text above was copied from the site) is that the story text is now substantially different, and doesn't carry the phrase "he invented aerial kite photography". And yet there's no mention of an edit ;-) BugBear |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
"Ofnuts" wrote in message
... On 20/08/2010 12:38, Val Hallah wrote: I don’t see how anybody can go to America, work there for six years and not be enthralled by the energy of the free market. America taught me the power of the free market, as opposed to the State, to improve the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people. Including all those ruined by subprime loans... There is a difference between free market energy and greed. A very fine line, but it is there -- Peter |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite- by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 21/08/2010 04:01, Peter wrote:
"Ofnuts" wrote in message ... On 20/08/2010 12:38, Val Hallah wrote: I don’t see how anybody can go to America, work there for six years and not be enthralled by the energy of the free market. America taught me the power of the free market, as opposed to the State, to improve the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people. Including all those ruined by subprime loans... There is a difference between free market energy and greed. A very fine line, but it is there .... and crossed everyday. -- Bertrand |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
"Ofnuts" wrote in message
... On 21/08/2010 04:01, Peter wrote: "Ofnuts" wrote in message ... On 20/08/2010 12:38, Val Hallah wrote: I don’t see how anybody can go to America, work there for six years and not be enthralled by the energy of the free market. America taught me the power of the free market, as opposed to the State, to improve the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people. Including all those ruined by subprime loans... There is a difference between free market energy and greed. A very fine line, but it is there ... and crossed everyday. Banks, ATMs and convenience stores, etc... are also robbed everyday. Should we eliminate them? -- Peter |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite- by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
On 21/08/2010 14:21, Peter wrote:
There is a difference between free market energy and greed. A very fine line, but it is there ... and crossed everyday. Banks, ATMs and convenience stores, etc... are also robbed everyday. Should we eliminate them? I wasn't talking abojut robbery. But since you address the subjet: when the poor use violence to rob the rich, it's illegal, when the rich use small print to rob the poor, it's legal. -- Bertrand |
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The stunning aerial photos taken with just a camera and a kite - by the inventor of 'kite-ography'
"Ofnuts" wrote in message
... On 21/08/2010 14:21, Peter wrote: There is a difference between free market energy and greed. A very fine line, but it is there ... and crossed everyday. Banks, ATMs and convenience stores, etc... are also robbed everyday. Should we eliminate them? I wasn't talking abojut robbery. But since you address the subjet: when the poor use violence to rob the rich, it's illegal, when the rich use small print to rob the poor, it's legal. Small print illegal. If a poor person buys a house he cannot afford, whose fault is that. If you bought a camera you could not afford and you could not buy food for your family, would that be the fault of the camera salesman? - The credit card company -- your bank because you withdrew your money to buy the camera? For what reason would it not be the fault of the purchaser of the home. The concept is accepting responsibility for one's own acts. What may be illegal was packaging these high risk mortgages and selling them as mortgage backed securities, without adequate disclosure. Some of those derivatives were so complex that it's almost impossible to decipher what exactly they are. What also may be illegal, civilly wrong, was selling derivatives while taking a short position without disclosing the seller had more to gain if the derivative went bad, while making a healthy profit on the sale. -- Peter |
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