Notes on Kite Aerial Photography: Photo Gallery
Views of the Santa Cruz waterfront toward the east (left) and
west (35K jpg left and 24 jpg right, Canon 24-mm, June 1997).
On a Sunday in June 1997, Claudia and I found ourselves delivering son Thomas to a camp near Santa Cruz. After a poignant farewell we headed to the Santa Cruz waterfront for a bit of R&R before heading back to Berkeley. The stretch of oceanfront drive near Natural Bridges was a topic of one of my earliest gallery pages and Claudia was interested in seeing what it looked like. I enjoyed revisiting the site as well.
On
arrival we found a very slight breeze from the west and I flew
the Sutton 30 for awhile. It was clear that the Sutton wasn't
going to lift anything so I traded it for the carbon-framed
Rokkaku. The Rok flew quite happily and didn't exhibit its
occasional tendency to overfly so after 10 minutes or so I sent
the Canon Rebel skyward with its 24-mm lens.
Views
of our flying site along the oceanfront road (42K jpg left and
39K jpg right, Canon 24-mm lens, June 1997).
I'm rather fond of the
view on the left. In it the water is clear enough to reveal large
boulders and once you see them you can understand their effect on
the surface froth (best seen in the attached jpg.) The image also
contains our parked Plymouth van (upper right) and the park
adjacent to it (my flying site.) This bluff must be one of the
more interesting urban edges in the country.
Closer
views of Santa Cruz's oceanfront urban edge (40K jpg left and 35K
jpg right, Canon 24-mm lens, June 1997).
Here are two lower level
views of the bluff. On the left you can see me standing along the
fence line. The sea has undercut the bluff at this location and
each wave produces an entertaining show as it enters the undercut
and thunders back out.
More
bluff shots (40K jpg left and 32K jpg right, Canon 24-mm lens,
June 1997).
The lefthand shot shows
an interesting pattern of "desire paths" through the
ice plant groundcover. On the right is the froth from waves
pounding a small point in the bluff .
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