Christmas-KAP
Kite Aerial Photography. The ever present self portrait (my wife and I).
Had a fun Christmas KAP session on the top of Spencer Butte. I had flown the rig a week ago on the top, but I had some technical difficulties with my rig and there wasn't any fog :)
Here we're sitting on a steep basaltic outcrop on the south side of the butte where an incense cedar is hanging on in the fractures. Several rare endemic ferns and mosses hang out-on the steep south slope along with a disjunct population of western rattlesnakes (with the exception of some of our basaltic buttes in the Willamette valley rattle snakes are restricted to eastern and southern Oregon). The view is looking east with several of the high cascade volcanoes on the horizon. The valleys of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers are buried in a thick freezing fog related to a stable temperature inversion -- with a boundary around 1500 feet. The fog is being pushed out and eroded by dry northeast wind but it will hang on for another day or so.
More photos later. I used the accelerometer trigger but managed (in spite of this handicap) to get several intact panoramas at different elevations -- including some nice perspectives of the top of the butte and the south slope.
Christmas-KAP
Kite Aerial Photography. The ever present self portrait (my wife and I).
Had a fun Christmas KAP session on the top of Spencer Butte. I had flown the rig a week ago on the top, but I had some technical difficulties with my rig and there wasn't any fog :)
Here we're sitting on a steep basaltic outcrop on the south side of the butte where an incense cedar is hanging on in the fractures. Several rare endemic ferns and mosses hang out-on the steep south slope along with a disjunct population of western rattlesnakes (with the exception of some of our basaltic buttes in the Willamette valley rattle snakes are restricted to eastern and southern Oregon). The view is looking east with several of the high cascade volcanoes on the horizon. The valleys of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers are buried in a thick freezing fog related to a stable temperature inversion -- with a boundary around 1500 feet. The fog is being pushed out and eroded by dry northeast wind but it will hang on for another day or so.
More photos later. I used the accelerometer trigger but managed (in spite of this handicap) to get several intact panoramas at different elevations -- including some nice perspectives of the top of the butte and the south slope.