Spencerville Mill, Spencerville, Ontario - KAP 2013-20
May 1, 2013.
Spencerville is a small village in eastern Ontario, less than an hour's drive from Ottawa. It is just north of Prescott and adjacent to Highway 416. It sits on the South Nation River.
I went to Spencerville for the first time about a month prior to this session. I was delivering three prints which I had entered in a juried photography competition/exhibit at the ArtScene Gallery located on Spencer Street (the main street) in Spencerville. Passing the Spencerville Mill, which I had checked out first on Google Earth, I decided that this was a good place for a KAP session. After the delivery I tried to fly my ROK but the wind was very strong and gusty (perfect direction though) so I had to abandon without having attached the camera.
When the photography show ended (I received 2nd place for Walk on the Beach by the way) I went back to retrieve my prints along with friend, and part-time KAP assistant, Ted Welch. You can barely make us out in images 4 & 5, where Ted is playing with a resident's dog. I believe the KAP assistant's job description says "... while keeping distracting or dangerous interference away from the photographer". The wind was much better this time except blowing from the south and parallel to the river which would have been my second favourite choice. Nevertheless the KAP session went ahead using my FLED kite and the results are quite worthwhile. There is another angle of the mill that I would like to try which requires wind from the west or alternatively getting access to private property on the opposite side of the river. The location also warrants summer and winter aerial photography.
These photographs were taken using a remote-controlled camera suspended below a kite line (Kite Aerial Photography - KAP).
Read MoreSpencerville is a small village in eastern Ontario, less than an hour's drive from Ottawa. It is just north of Prescott and adjacent to Highway 416. It sits on the South Nation River.
I went to Spencerville for the first time about a month prior to this session. I was delivering three prints which I had entered in a juried photography competition/exhibit at the ArtScene Gallery located on Spencer Street (the main street) in Spencerville. Passing the Spencerville Mill, which I had checked out first on Google Earth, I decided that this was a good place for a KAP session. After the delivery I tried to fly my ROK but the wind was very strong and gusty (perfect direction though) so I had to abandon without having attached the camera.
When the photography show ended (I received 2nd place for Walk on the Beach by the way) I went back to retrieve my prints along with friend, and part-time KAP assistant, Ted Welch. You can barely make us out in images 4 & 5, where Ted is playing with a resident's dog. I believe the KAP assistant's job description says "... while keeping distracting or dangerous interference away from the photographer". The wind was much better this time except blowing from the south and parallel to the river which would have been my second favourite choice. Nevertheless the KAP session went ahead using my FLED kite and the results are quite worthwhile. There is another angle of the mill that I would like to try which requires wind from the west or alternatively getting access to private property on the opposite side of the river. The location also warrants summer and winter aerial photography.
These photographs were taken using a remote-controlled camera suspended below a kite line (Kite Aerial Photography - KAP).
