Author: Bullet-Point Ben

Making your own kite might sound a little dorky.

However, a few points to consider:

• This kite is 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
• It’s called a Rokkaku.  Rok for short.
• It’s a Japanese fighter kite
• It can easily lift a camera for taking pictures
• It has an angry face on it.

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I’m trying to use the kite/camera rig to get the perfect “how the heck did you take that?” picture of the Boise river / capital building /foothills, and hopefully a few people floating down the river too.   So yesterday I went over to Barber Park and played around with the camera/kite combo for about half an hour.

• If I’d angled the camera about 30 degrees to the left I would have gotten a great picture of table rock and the river – much closer to the “perfect picture” I was after. But I think this looks cool anyway.
  
  
• Apparently they’re growing something on the roof of this building.
  
  
• I really need to put together a suspension system so the pictures aren’t so blurry all the time.

• New kite: the Sutton FlowForm 8.  The 8 is for 8 sq ft of material.  Serious Aerial photographers use the FlowForm 30, an 8′ Rokkaku, a Powersled 81, or some other enormous kite.
  
  
  
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• The basic setup – an eye-hook bolt tied to a $20 kite. I set the camera to take a picture every 2 seconds
  
  
  
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