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DIY Parabolic Microphone
9
photos
Photos documenting the build of a stereo parabolic microphone for field recording. The full build description can be found here: ZZZ
Microphone Hacking
10
photos
Photos and photo sets from my excursion into microphone hacking.
Alice Mic Building
28
photos
Photos documenting the construction of several microphones based off of the Alice (Scott Helmke), Pimped Alice (Scott Helmke, Jules Ryckenbush, Homero Leal), and related microphones based at least...
SPIE Edinburgh 2016
34
photos
Photos from SPIE 2016 Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Edinburgh, Scotland
Kite Aerial Sound
22
photos
A series of experiments aimed toward developing a field recording setup that can be flown on a kite to record stereo sound from low altitude.
Utata Iron Photographer
9
photos
Photographs for Utata Iron Photographer projects
Ember Article
7
photos
Photos for an article I wrote about caring for an amputee cat.
2015 Megacam L1 Investigation
27
photos
Photographs from the investigation and servicing of the coating damage on the L1 element of Megacam's wide field corrector .
Amsterdam 2012
31
photos
Photographs from the 2012 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation conference in Amsterdam
Getty Artist's Picks - October 2013
10
photos
Ten photographs for the Getty Artist's Pick for October, 2013
Kohala Mountain Farm
17
photos
Low altitude aerial photographs from Kohala Mountain Farm
Getty Artist's Pick August 2013
10
photos
Photographs selected for the Getty Artist's Pick pool for August, 2013.
RC Airplanes
13
photos
Photos of RC airplanes, people flying RC airplanes, stuff I've done when building RC airplanes, etc. If it's RC airplane related and I've photographed it, this is where it goes.
WWKW 2013
5
photos
Photographs from World Wide KAP Week 2013
Challenging KAP - WCS
5
photos
These five photos document a particularly challenging KAP session I was asked to do on behalf of a local school.
Getty Artists Pick May 2013
5
photos
Photos I selected to submit to Getty for review, May 2013 New rules for the Getty Artist's Pick group are five photos set up as a portfolio. If a curator is interested, they may follow the links...
KAP Search and Rescue
3
photos
A good KAP camera at a good working altitude can resolve something as small as a blade of grass. This set of photos chronicles my use of KAP to locate an RC airplane battery I dropped from a plane...
Sitelle Camera Build
19
photos
This set chronicles the design and construction of two (actually three) CCD cameras for an astronomical instrument being built for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
Pacific Catamaran Rebuild Project
13
photos
In March, 2012, we bought a very VERY used Pacific Catamaran 19. At a guess this hull is roughly 40 years old, and came with at least one of the original sails. To give you an idea of what that...
VKAP Test Session 1
5
photos
This is my first try at using a video downlink on my KAP rig. For the record, yes, I have a HAM license, and yes, I'm operating my gear inside a band I'm allowed to use at an appropriate power level.
Kauhola Point Farmland
1
photo
Getty Artist's Pick 2011 October
25
photos
25 photos chosen to submit to Getty Artist's Pick in October, 2011.
T2i DSLR KAP Rig
18
photos
These photos document how I converted my Canon A650IS kite aerial photography rig to accommodate a Canon T2i DSLR with the 18-55mm kit lens. Some specs and comparisons: The original rig had three...
2011 Kona Invitational Air Show
4
photos
It's the Big Island's first airshow! Unfortunately I don't own the long glass that would let me grab the really excellent flying we saw, but I did what I could with my T2i and pre-USM 100mm macro...
Spinner Dolphin KAP
11
photos
A friend and I have been trying to photograph spinner dolphins for some time using KAP gear launched off of a boat. On the 14th of May, 2011 we finally managed to do it.
Didakites Rokkaku Setup and Tear-Down
31
photos,
1
video
As part of the Push N8 project, I got a Didakites RGB Rokkaku, a roughly 7' sail framed out with fiberglass spars. This is an overly pedantic set of photos showing setup and tear-down of this...
WWKW 2011
18
photos
World Wide KAP Week 2011
T2i Pano Rig Design
2
photos
N8 Kiholo Bay
4
photos
Nokia N8 photography at Kiholo Bay
N8 KAP Testing - Waimea
1
photo
More testing of the Push N8 KAP gear in Waimea
2011 Tsunami
2
photos
Kite aerial photography and possibly some ground photography of areas affected by the 2011 tsunami that struck Japan, Hawaii, and other areas of the Pacific. Making these photographs really brought...
CFHT Water Tunnel Tests
3
photos
In late 2010, several people at CFHT started construction of a scale model of our summit facility to do fluid dynamics testing. This shows some of the work involved in building and testing the...
N8 KAP Testing - Pololu Valley
12
photos
On Saturday, January 29th, 2011, I grabbed the two Nokia N8 phones that came as part of the Push N8 project, a cobbled together ortho rig for the N8, all my other KAP gear, and hiked into Pololu...
N8 Ground Testing
2
photos
GoPro
5
photos
Getty Artist's Pick 2011 January
25
photos
WWKW 2010
5
photos
Worldwide KAP Week 2010 - September 11 - September 19
Sunset KAP Tests
19
photos
These images are from a series done as tests late in the day, toward sunset. KAP at sunset introduces a whole mess of challenges that have tossed my normal daytime KAP techniques out the window. ...
SPIE San Diego 2010
21
photos
Photographs made while I was at the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation conference in San Diego, California, in 2010
Boat KAP
11
photos
What I hope is not just a single session of doing KAP from a boat.
Getty Artist's Pick 2010 December
25
photos
Infared KAP
7
photos
Most digital cameras have some level of response to the IR. I don't own an IR converted camera (at least not as of December, 2009) but I do have a Hoya R72 infrared long-pass filter. I've done a...
Gumstick Camera
5
photos,
2
videos
There are a whole slew of these things on the market right now. I got mine off of Ebay, without any memory, for about $15. This appears to be the going rate. Mine takes a MicroSD card for memory. ...
Getty Submission 2009 December
10
photos
Hapuna Beach
53
photos
KAP and ground pictures taken at Hapuna Beach State Park on the Big Island of Hawaii
$20 Carbon Pole Photography
8
photos
A good accessory to any KAP kit is a decent lightweight pole to hoist your camera when the kites just won't do the job. Low wind, overhanging vegetation, swirly wind from nearby buildings or...
Mauna Loa Hike - 5 August, 2009
42
photos
On August 5th, 2009, a bunch of people from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope hiked from the USGS station on Mauna Loa to the caldera near the mountain's summit. A number of us brought cameras. I...
Mauna Lani Beach Club
14
photos
Kiholo Bay
42
photos
Kiholo Bay has a fantastic reef, and Wainanali`i Pond.
Canon A650IS Testing
1
photo
Continued testing on the A650IS
Perspective Control
16
photos
There's a lot of misunderstanding about perspective control, and the movements on a view camera that would give the desired results. There are also some wonderful programs available that can mimic,...
LAMA
3
photos
LAMA is the LAser MAchining center at work. It's a fairly low-powered laser as these things go, but it's an NdYAG near-IR laser, so it's not to be taken lightly in terms of safety.
WWKW2009 - Anchialine Ponds
3
photos
WWKW2009 - Mauna Kea Beach Resort
4
photos
WWKW2009 - Ka Lae
12
photos
WWKW2009 - Ground Shots
9
photos
WWKW2009 - Saddle Road
3
photos
WWKW2009 - Puukohola
1
photo
WWKW2009 - Lighthouse
9
photos
WWKW2009 - Mahukona
10
photos
North Kohala Archaeology
6
photos
The North Kohala coastline is peppered with protected historical sites. Nonetheless the area is also peppered with lot markers from land surveys, some planted near or even inside the historical...
KAP Radio Conversion
5
photos
I picked up a Turborix 6-channel 2.4GHz radio to replace my aging AM radio system on my KAP rig. The intention was (and to some extent still is) to gut the transmitter and re-mount the components in...
Baby-Orangutan AutoKAP
8
photos,
1
video
The Baby-Orangutan AutoKAP is a project I've been wanting to do for some time. It's an AutoKAP controller based off of the Pololu Robotics Baby-Orangutan, or in this case the Baby-Orangutan SV-168.
Waikoloa Resorts
20
photos
More inland than my Anaeho`omalu Bay set, these are taken in the resort area proper.
Cryotiger Conversion
3
photos
We're converting one of our cameras at work from a liquid nitrogen cooling system to a closed-cycle cooler. We're testing with a Cryotiger system.
HQ Kite O Rama February 2009
19
photos
Hawi Headquarters threw the first Kite O' Rama of 2009 in February. It was great! A bunch of people came out, there were new faces (and new kites!) and everyone had a blast.
Filter Scans
6
photos
I use a Shimadzu scanning spectrophotometer at work in order to characterize our optics. I've also run a number of pieces of photography gear through it. These are some of the transmission spectra...
Canon A650IS RAW vs. JPG Testing
6
photos
The JPG compression algorithm on the Canon A650IS has some peculiarities that can cause artifacts in an image. Even on the finest setting, certain features can be blurred, even as other features are...
Posters
5
photos
Fun with Big Huge Labs applications! Mostly these are silly. But I like to have fun.
Canon A650IS File Formats
1
photo
CHDK allows Canon compact cameras to save raw formats. The A650IS can save in CR2 and in DNG, as well as with JPG compression. But what do you gain when using one of the other formats? These are a...
Canon A650IS Aperture Test
10
photos
A series of test images from a Canon A650IS used to determine the sharpest aperture on the lens with the lens at its widest setting. These were shot as both JPG and DNG images. Both sets agreed on...
Petroglyphs
2
photos
Photography of petroglyphs around the Big Island of Hawai`i.
Kailua-Kona
28
photos
Kekaha Kai
10
photos
Filter and Optics Testing
2
photos
CFHT
40
photos
The Canada France Hawaii Telescope, at the summit of Mauna Kea, is where I work and feed my inner geek.
Mauna Kea (Ground)
14
photos,
1
video
Photographs of Mauna Kea taken from the ground. A disproportionate number of these were taken from the catwalk on the outside of the CFHT dome.
Z-Stacking
2
photos
In much the way HDR uses a set of images taken at different exposure values, Z-Stacking uses a set of images taken at different focus points. In Z-Stacking, however, the sharpest part of each image...
Wailea Bay
13
photos
Anaehoomalu Bay
56
photos
Kite Line Winder
10
photos
A big part of doing kite aerial photography is actually flying the kite. Unlike ground photography, where you buy a good set of tripod legs and a head you like, flying a kite involves a whole other...
Random Shop Creations
2
photos
Random things I've done in the shop. Most of these are one-day, typically one-hour jobs anyone could do with a couple of machine tools.
Waikiki
11
photos
KAP photos from Waikiki Beach on O`ahu.
HQ Kite O Rama October 2008
3
photos
The only kite shop I know of on the Big Island is in Hawi, at the north end. Chris, the owner of Hawi Headquarters, along with a bunch of other kite enthusiasts, started holding Kite Day as a way...
Puu Huluhulu
9
photos
Pu`u Huluhulu is a kipuka, a forested cinder cone that was later isolated by a lava flow. It lies adjacent to Saddle Road, so it is one of the easier kipukas to access.
Lightweight KAP Rig
7
photos
This is a special-purpose lightweight KAP rig, built specifically to point the camera as close to straight down as possible. The motivation for this rig is a KAP archaeology flight that's being...
DIMM
12
photos
A set of photographs to document the installation of a differential image motion monitor on its permanent pier.
Upolu Point
10
photos
Upolu Point is at the north end of the Big Island of Hawai`i. It is also where King Kamehameha I was born, and is the location of Mo`okini Heiau, one of the most significant historic sites on the...
Aluminizing
11
photos
Large telescope mirrors are, by definition, used outdoors. The wind, the dust, the fog and the rain all give them a beating. Every three to six years, they need to have their reflective surfaces...
Keawaiki
9
photos
During my hike from Anaehoomalu Bay and Kua Bay early in 2008, I had to give several locations a miss because of time constraints. One by one I'm re-visiting the spots I missed so I can give them...
Kua Bay
35
photos
Kua Bay is one of the best KAP locations on the Kona Coast of the Big Island. It's easy to get to, it's photogenic, and it has some of the steadiest wind I've found. It also has line-eating rocks...
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - 2008
10
photos
In July, 2008, my family and I took a trip to Volcano National Park. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do any KAP at the park, but I did do a fair bit of ground photography.
Mana Road
32
photos
Aerial and ground photographs taken on Mana Road
Digital Image Noise Reduction (DINR)
5
photos
This is a second attempt to test image stacking as a method of noise reduction for general purpose photography. This technique of image stacking originated with astrophotography, which has used it...
Kiholo Bay Hike
14
photos
On the 25th of June, 2008, I hiked from Anaeho`omalu Bay to Kiholo Bay. Along the way I did some kite aerial photography as well as some ground photography, both in the visible and in the near-IR. ...
Infrared
11
photos
Infrared photography with a Canon A650 IS
KAP Rig Rebuild
26
photos
In May, 2008, I replaced my KAP camera, a Nikon Coolpix 5600, with a Canon PowerShot A650 IS. This set of photographs and descriptions documents the upgrade process, some of the decisions that were...
World Wide KAP Weekend 2008
7
photos
These are the photographs I took during the World Wide KAP Weekend 2008. This is a once-a-year worldwide not-quite get together where KAPers all over the world do their darndest to get out, get...
Digital Studio
6
photos
Kalapana
10
photos
Digital photos at the lava flows on the Kalapana side.
Pololu Valley
32
photos
Kite aerial photography in Pololu Valley on the Big Island of Hawai`i.
Mauna Kea (KAP)
19
photos
AutoKAP from the summit of Mauna Kea.
Waimea
86
photos,
1
video
KAP images taken in or around Waimea on the Big Island of Hawai`i.
Hilo
3
photos
Photos taken in or near Hilo, Hawaii.
South Point
8
photos
Kite aerial photographs taken at or near South Point on the Big Island of Hawai`i.
Waipi`o Valley
21
photos
Kite aerial photographs taken in Waipi`o Valley on the Big Island of Hawai`i.
Parks
6
photos
People
10
photos
Kite aerial photographs of people.
Mauna Kea
10
photos
Kite aerial photographs taken on or near Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai`i.
Color Field
4
photos
B&W Field
10
photos
B&W Studio
9
photos
Kites
12
photos
Photographs of kites, both from the ground and from the air.
Droppy
5
photos
Droppy is a little doodad you can stick on a kite line, hook a "thing" to, and use it to drop the "thing" from great height. This isn't a new idea. Kites have been used to carry...
Projects
13
photos
In an effort to grow, photographically, I've started taking on project work, largely through Utata. These pictures are an intentional break from my KAP and 4x5 studio and field work, and are taken...
4x5 KAP Camera
24
photos
My first in what I hope is a series of hand-built large format cameras. This one is specifically designed to be hung from a kite string for doing kite aerial photography.
KAP Gear
40
photos
Some of the hardware I used to do kite aerial photography.
Large Format Cameras
2
photos
Photographs of cameras.
Cat Vision
6
photos
The purpose of the Cat Vision project was to see what effect a vertical slit aperture would have on a camera's performance. Basically, I wanted to see what a cat would see with its eye designed the...
AVR Projects
5
photos
Bits and pieces I've made using AVR microcontrollers.
Robotics
3
photos
Robotics parts that have come out of my machine shop.
Portfolio
14
photos
Pelekane Beach & Pu`ukohola Heiau
4
photos
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