{"id":11090,"date":"2006-04-10T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/04\/kite-aerial-panoramas.html"},"modified":"2006-04-10T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T09:05:41","slug":"kite_aerial_panoramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/kite_aerial_panoramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite aerial panoramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I wondered whether someone would attach a digital camera <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/11\/jack_naylor_jan.html\">to a pigeon<\/a>.  No luck so far, but how about <a href=\"http:\/\/scotthaefner.com\/kap\/360panos\/\" \/>360\u00b0 panoramas taken from kites<\/a>?  Photographer Scott Haefner has <a href=\"http:\/\/scotthaefner.com\/kap\/360panos\/howmade\/\" \/>rigged up<\/a> a Nikon Coolpix with fisheye lens to a kite, from which he snags shots like this one of Stanford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scotthaefner.com\/kap\/360panos\/image.php?i=hoovertower.mov\">Hoover Tower<\/a>.  Images go through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kekus.com\/\" \/>PTMac<\/a> &amp; PanoTools on their way to Photoshop and final output.<br \/>\nFinding this work led me to learn about kite pano pioneer <a href=\"http:\/\/robroy.dyndns.info\/lawrence\/\" \/>George Lawrence<\/a>, whose 17-kite &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/robroy.dyndns.info\/lawrence\/kitelines97.html\">Captive Airship<\/a>&#8221; helped <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/i?ammem\/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a34514)):displayType=1:m856sd=pan:m856sf=6a34514\">document the aftermath<\/a> of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.  Scott plans to try to <a href=\"http:\/\/scotthaefner.com\/kap\/?page=1906\">replicate the shot<\/a> using modern equipment, while another team plans to recreate the shot using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronkleinphotos.com\/Lawrence.html\">a replica of the original camera<\/a> and a helicopter.  A number of Lawrence&#8217;s photos are currently on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmoma.com\/exhibitions\/exhib_detail.asp?id=222\">SFMOMA<\/a>.<br \/>\nBy the way, through the magic of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_R._Lawrence\">Wikipedia<\/a> I learned that Lawrence was the great-grandfather of Adobe blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/typblography\/\" \/>Thomas Phinney<\/a>.  Small world!<br \/>\nPS&#8211;So, maybe the pigeon-cam thing has yet to pan out, but you can still glimpse the world from the perspective of a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2006\/03\/0328_060328_bears_video.html?source=rss\">bear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anivegvideo.com\/Armadillo.html\">armadillo<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anivegvideo.com\/AVV.html\">other critter<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/05\/video_from_a_bears_v.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I wondered whether someone would attach a digital camera to a pigeon. No luck so far, but how about 360\u00b0 panoramas taken from kites? Photographer Scott Haefner has rigged up a Nikon Coolpix with fisheye lens to a kite, from which he snags shots like this one of Stanford&#8217;s Hoover Tower. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}