{"id":32,"date":"2007-05-15T00:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquewhite-badger-125150.hostingersite.com\/kites\/2007\/05\/15\/looking-northwest-from-mission-bay-park\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T00:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:23:47","slug":"looking-northwest-from-mission-bay-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/2007\/05\/15\/looking-northwest-from-mission-bay-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Northwest from Mission Bay Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking Northwest<\/a><\/span>
\nOriginally uploaded by Bassoon Man<\/a>.<\/span> <\/span>I have been extremely fortunate in connecting with members of the San Diego Kite Club (I’m a member too). This is now the second time I’ve gone down to fly with them: the first time was their New Year’s Day Kite Festival.<\/p>\n

<\/span>This event, held on Saturday, May 12, 2007 was their monthly fly. Unfortunately, I got stuck in traffic on my way down (it’s about 75 miles from home) – the freeway was a veritable parking lot all the way from Oceanside to Rancho Santa Fe. Why? Who knows? It was just a mess. As a result, I arrived later than I had planned but that didn’t matter – it was a beautiful day (although the winds could have been a bit stronger). I managed to get my remote controlled KAP (kite aerial photography) up for a it’s first “real” voyage. The first time occurred many weeks ago at the Huntington Beach Kite Party – unfortunately, the winds were so poor that day that by the time I had launched my rig, the camera batteries were nearly spent and I only obtained a few photos. Today; however, was different – I managed to get about 200 pictures. While I have not posted the vast majority of them (they were boring), I did learn several things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I need to keep the camera pointed more parallel to the ground – I got a LOT of pictures pointing down.<\/li>\n
  2. The KAP feather that I bought from Jones’ Airfoils works REALLY well – I was rather amazed at how few of my shots were blurred when compared with previous KAP outings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As I’ve noted previously, the day was terrific and I was glad I made the trip.
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    Looking Northwest Originally uploaded by Bassoon Man. I have been extremely fortunate in connecting with members of the San Diego Kite Club (I’m a member too). This is now the second time I’ve gone down to fly with them: the first time was their New Year’s Day Kite Festival. This event, held on Saturday, May … Continue reading Looking Northwest from Mission Bay Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,50,58,77],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kites","tag-huntington-beach-kite-party","tag-kap","tag-mission-bay","tag-san-diego-kite-club"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}