Bull by the horns and all that....!!

[prittstick]

Hi ..Just joined so a forum newbie but a kite oldie.

Always wanted to take aerial pics with a small rocket or basically anything that could get aloft!

After many fanciful thoughts over the years and to be honest doing nothing about them ! I recently had my chance...!

My wife and I are keen metal detectorists here in the south east corner of the UK and our hobby has lead us into history in general and archaeology as well!

Ok so after a detecting survey of a field near us led after many detecting man hours to 35 Roman coins we thought MMmm something in this field!

Geophys ( arnt we lucky with our contacts eh!) discovered an enclosure! Archaeology continues but with the dry weather I thought this may show the archaeology and the

best

way to look would be from above..Looked on ebay for a camera initially that was man enough for the job.....Found a web page that listed cameras suitable and found a

Cannon Ixus that took time lapse photos.... What I needed apparently.

I then looked for camera rigs and found an ebay guy selling not just a harness but a kite as well! I snapped them up , took delivery and post my first ever KAP picks

after first converting the AVI pics from the IXS to jpeg images!

Thank you and onwards and upwards

Tim

[John Barresi]

That's awesome Tim.

I'm not a KAP guy myself, but I love seeing the work of others!

Did you see this article from issue 71 of Kitelife?

http://kitelife.com/magazine/issue71/kap71/content.php

Same author has sent us something for this next issue as well, to be released on the web first week of August.

[Baloo]

Cool how you can see the lines on the ground where there was something sometime.

Welcome to the forum, keep us posted with how you get on.

[prittstick]

Looking forward to my first Kitelife mag! I took a 6 month sub..

Thanks for the link..

p

[John Barresi]

Thanks for the support, much appreciated.

Not available yet, but our next issue will be at - http://www.kitelife....agazine/issue73

Again, it'll be ready for viewing in the first week of August...

We typically post news/updates to our Facebook page (below), but I'll make a note to try and remember to post here on the forum as well.

http://www.facebook.com/kitelife

[prittstick]

Thanks for the support, much appreciated.

Not available yet, but our next issue will be at - http://www.kitelife....agazine/issue73

Again, it'll be ready for viewing in the first week of August...

We typically post news/updates to our Facebook page (below), but I'll make a note to try and remember to post here on the forum as well.

http://www.facebook.com/kitelife

Is it purely a emag then ? I would be a little disappointed if it was

Thank you...

p

[John Barresi]

Is it purely a emag then ? I would be a little disappointed if it was

That's correct, and we're quite clear about that...

From the very first paragraph on our home page:

Looking for information about kite flying? You've found it! Kitelife has been a leading source of kiting information since April 1998, as a bi-monthly Internet publication and archive with a dazzling array of articles, plans, event coverage, commentary, videos and photos. Kitelife is a "lifestyle" publication, bringing you the splendor and personalities that make up modern kiting.

Click here for our full archive of online magazines!

Also, from our subscription info:

We go out of our way to ensure that the general content of KL is and will continue to be available to anyone, free of charge. Our belief is that by presenting an infinite kite media mecca, we can only grow from the increased exchange of information and inspiration. We are able to keep the main archives open to general visitors free of charge thanks to the support of our official Kitelife Subscribers... If you find our services, archives and mission valuable to yourself and the kiting community, please consider signing up today. It may not seem like much, but every subscriber makes a tremendous difference!

As thanks our subscribers receive:

• Access to exclusive subscriber drawings held every 4-6 weeks which generally feature ready to use kite and accessory packages from our sponsors, typically valued at $100-$400.
• Uninterrupted access to the Kitelife video archives, featuring over 200 full length competition and demonstration routines gathered from all over the world during the last 20 years, as well as exclusive tutorial and festival videos available nowhere else.
• 100MB of storage in the Kitelife PhotoFiles on line albums where you can display your favorite photographs and share them with visitors to our site.
• Special recognition in our Kitelife Forum by way of an "Official Kitelife Subscriber" graphic seen in your postings.

Frankly, the prime benefits of being subscriber are the prize drawings and full access to our massive archive of videos (including picture-in-picture tutorials)... Ultimately, subscriptions help us keep expanding our efforts in promoting, displaying and making kiting more readily available to others in all of its fullness through online media, education and on-field presence at events all over the country.

That being said, we also have a unconditional 30 day refund policy on all subscriptions... Again, Kitelife is my passion, and one of many vehicles for kiting... No games in that, just doing what we do, sharing the passion and keeping the roof overhead.

Let me know if I can facilitate with anything, or answer any questions, anytime.

[prittstick]

All good and I agree with everything you say...( funny how this has turned into a subscription, post versus email thread! :-) )

Whatever you say I prefer my magazines and subscriptions in paper form..It suits me just fine to take a paper mag wherever I go and leave it wherever I like and to read it without booting anything up...I would pay twice possibly three times as much for a hard copy of your publication..

Its like flying a virtual kite. It is for me...

p

[John Barresi]

Fair enough, I totally understand.

Have you found our out of print kite mags yet?

All in PDF - http://www.kitelife.com/library

[prittstick]

thumbs up..:-)