Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kite Aerial Photograph: The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. See www.phipps.conservatory.org/.
See my KAP Pittsburgh set
Taken using my gentled auto led, on my BBKK.
Thank you to my flicker KAP group colleagues for the repeated advice to "get closer": Motivated by this, we went out on the morning when a Wind Advisory had been forcast for Pittsburgh. My wife fortunately calmed my worries about launching in such windy conditions, and so we were able to fly much closer than ever before to the Phipps (as usually there is never enough wind here, in the 'wind shadow' of the building). Fortunately, all went well (although the kite did do an amazing frightening loop at one point), and we managed to get several very nice, closer, photographs! And we got the kite down well before the much higher winds & tornado watch later in the afternoon - there were gusts > 30 mph shortly after we were flying here - see this wind graph for that date from Carnegie Mellon University only a few block away.
Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kite Aerial Photograph: The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. See www.phipps.conservatory.org/.
See my KAP Pittsburgh set
Taken using my gentled auto led, on my BBKK.
Thank you to my flicker KAP group colleagues for the repeated advice to "get closer": Motivated by this, we went out on the morning when a Wind Advisory had been forcast for Pittsburgh. My wife fortunately calmed my worries about launching in such windy conditions, and so we were able to fly much closer than ever before to the Phipps (as usually there is never enough wind here, in the 'wind shadow' of the building). Fortunately, all went well (although the kite did do an amazing frightening loop at one point), and we managed to get several very nice, closer, photographs! And we got the kite down well before the much higher winds & tornado watch later in the afternoon - there were gusts > 30 mph shortly after we were flying here - see this wind graph for that date from Carnegie Mellon University only a few block away.