KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia

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KAP Jasa is the largest kite club in Slovenia and a culture NGO working in public interest. We dabble in kite making, kite flying, kite festivals, kite workshops, kite aerial photography, kite art, and kite science. Official website: https://kapjasa.si

A kite aerial view of a kite festival on a beach. Blue sky, dark blue Adriatic sea, sandy beach, beachfront hotels. The sky is full of colorful kites of all sizes and shapes.
A deltoid kite with an appliqué of a ski jumper in a fuchsia jumpsuit, a black helmet and number 13, flying in a blue sky with scattered white clouds.
Kite aerial shot of flooded Planina polje. Left and centre brownish still water with trees protruding from it, green meadows on the right, a village, brown forest-covered mountains in the distance.
Kite aerial shot of dry Lake Cerknica. Brown dry vegetation on a flat field, a meandering green-blue river, snow-dusted mountains in the distance under a blue winter sky.
A "christmas tree" constructed from photos of LED kites on a black background, with "2026 will blow you away!" written in bold white letters.
Einstürzende Neubauten, Haus der Lüge (1989)
A top-down kite aerial photo: brown autumn meadow, green spruces, a meandering stream.
A kite aerial photography exhibition in a tent at Dieppe kite fesitval; eight photos hang on a metallic frame, two visitors are looking at them.
Top-down aerial photo shot from a kite, showing a brown plain with a meandering stream, flanked by a green spruce forest.
Traditional balinese "janggan" kites - white with extremely long red-black-white tails - in the partially clouded sky.
Aerial shot of Lake Cerknica. A brown peninsula juts into the waters, a green forested island is in the middle of the lake, and green meadows and forests are all around.
Aerial photo of Urbino, Italy. Old brick houses, a palace, and a Cathedral among green hills.
Aerial photo of a part of Baroque Ljubljana - the green castle hill, the white Seminary building, the Cathedral, a green river, a tree-lined market place.
Aerial view of a snow covered plain, a meandering river, and snocapped mountains in the distance, all under a bright blue winter sky.
Aerial photo of coloruful kites in the blue sky above a white salt desert in Gujarat, India.
A lighthouse from the air, on a green peninsula with some houses, beside a blue sea.
An old walled church built of stone, just outside a village on a hill in a valley below a precipitous mountain. Green forest and meadows, red roofs, white stone.
A collage of eight square kite aerial photos: a green shore of a lake, a yellow-brown marsh, a meandering river, a peninsula jutting into a blue sea, a prehistoric hillfort, a sunset over a green plain, a panorama of Urbino, an intermittent lake
Colourful kites of all shapes and sizes flying in the blue sky above a sandy beach hugged by a turquoise sea. Shot from above, with a camera attached to a kite line.
A drawing of a beach near Castellon de la plana, Valencia, Spain - blue sea on the right, green land on the left. There are sailing boats and windsurfers on the sea, and the sky is filled with airplanes, balloons, paragliders and kites of all colours: FESTIVAL DEL VIENTO.
Straight down kite aerial photo of the intermittent Lake Cerknica, Slovenia. Green and brown hues of water, floating plants, grasses and shrubs dominate the scene, a path winds across to the shore line.
A kite aerial photo of Ljubljana cathedral the main marketplace and the seminary, with the castle on the Castle hill and the Old town behind it. White and pastel façades, red roofs, green trees around and on the hill, blue sky above.
A train of kites shaped like typical aliens with black body and colorful heads (yellow, white, blue, red) on a blue sky, above a whote concrete roof with a word "SAUVETAGE" written on it.
An aerial photo of an Iron Age hillfort with a little church - on a hill in a valley surrounded by mountains. The church has a red roof, its walls are white. Brown grass and leafless trees cover the hill and the valley. A kite line cuts across the photo.
A LED kite in a shape of an astronaut flying in a black sky. The LED lights are changing colours in waves.
An aerial photo of a green-blue lake in the middle of a deep green pine forest, with some meadows on the left. Hills and mountains in the m
Gommateshwara statue in Karkala, Karnataka, India - a huge granite idol of Bahubali. A grey coloured statue of a naked man with a serene smile. Vines are climbing up his legs, torso, and arms. It stands in the middle of a double enclosure, a grey stone fence immediately around it, and a reddish laterite wall further away. The late afternoon sun is gracing the statue from the right, the sky is blue and cloudless. A couple of Jain devotees are paying respects to the sacred statue.
Two giant kites, a colorful Manta ray and a blue Merlin, soar into the blue sky above the white salt of the Rann of Kutch desert, Gujarat.
Orange-hued late afternoon sky above Old Ahmedabad, full of little paper kites (millions of them), shot during the Uttarayan celebrations in 2023. The flat roofs are crowded with people flying kites. "Here we go again!" is written across the sky, at the bottom left is the logotype of IKF Gujarat kite festival, at the botttom right the logo of KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia.
A black background with colorful drawings of various kites, clouds, comets, raining louds, birds and other creatures of the sky, with a big "HAPPY 2025!" in the middle, and the name of KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia at the top.
A large banner with letters I "heart" Gujarat lifted by a kite into the blue sky of Ahmedabad-A green mat covers the floor, white tents line the area. Shot during the International Kite Festival in 2023.
An aerial photo shot from a kite showing a lake, a road crossing it, a small circular green island in the middle. The lake is surrounded by brown and green fields, and hills in the distance. Blue sky with scattered white clouds.
A giant kite in the shape of an olm ("human fish") sharing the blue sky with a couple of other kites.
Kite aerial photo of a hillfort. Green grass covering the hill, darker greeen forest lining the ramparts, a white road and a small white old church with a red roof.
Same NDVI map, but in colour, mostly green and yellow with patches of red (indicating thriving grass), and the location of the underground structure in blue and violet (indicating poorer soil above the foundations)
A black-and white NDVI map of the meadow. Straight lines (in black) form some regular shapes that may be the foundations of a building hidden underground.
A 720 nm near-infrared aerial photo of a meadow. Due to quirks of the sensor the image is purple-pink. Vehicle tracks criscross the area. A person stands in the middle.
Two photos of a camera on a Picavet rig in a blue sky above a brown field. A kite line is visible, a system of pulleys and connecting lines, and a cruciform wooden platform on which the camera is attached.
A fragment of a white marble Roman tombstone set in a yellow-ochre wall of the church.
Kite aerial photo of a green meadow. A church of St Andrew is visible on the left. A couple of houses and some fields in the distance. A kite line crosses the view.
A NDVI map of the same meadow. Mostly violet and purple colour (indicating higher values), and a rectangular structure in orange colour showing the location of buried remains of a building.
Aerial photo of a green meadow without discernible features (basically a uniformly green rectangle).
Illustration - cross section of a field showing buried walls and covered trenches. Plants growing above a buried wall are yellow and withered, plants growing above a trench are thriving, taller and green.
A NDVI index map of a field. Good soil shown as yellow, orange and red, poorer soil as green and blue patches. Difference between plots of the field stand out.
Math formula for NDVI index explained in the post.
Illustration - difference in reflectance of various parts of a spectrum correlating to plant's health. From left to right: a dead leaf reflecting all parts equally poorly, a withering plant reflecting somewhat more green and near-infrared, a healthy plant reflecting a lot of near-infrared light.
A modified Pentax WG-10 camera with a 720 nm near infrared fillter attached, sitting on a white table.
A sky blue Rokkaku hexagonal kite on a green meadow
A giant kite shaped like an olm ("human fish", Proteus anguinus) flies into the blue sky above the white Rann of Kutch salt desert, India.
Kite aerial photo. Crumbling white walls of an ancient hillfort, roughly hexagonal in ground plan, contrasted by the green grass and colourful autumnal trees inside and around it.
A byellowish-brown meadow that is actually a dried-out bottom of an intermittent lake. Shadows of a kite flyer holding the kite line, and of a camera on a so-called picavet rig, used for kite aerial photography, attached to the line.
An evening sky above the roofs of Ahmedabad old city, India, is full of 'patangs' - small paper fighting kites - during the Utarrayan festival.