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Kite Cameras Offer Special Viewpoint
Published by: Mercury News       11-06-2005        Read Complete Article
Article Summary

Cris Benton's boyhood kites wouldn't fly far or long before trees and telephone poles mangled them.

No big loss. They were just paper and wood.

He's much more careful raising his kites these days. The high-flying, tough nylon and carbon fiber poles carry his digital cameras, along with his hopes of exposing people to a new point of view to understand and enjoy the landscapes around them.

Benton, a UC-Berkeley architectural professor, is part of the re-emergence of kite-assisted photography, which uses cameras attached to kite lines.

``You can see details of the landscape you just can't get when you're standing on the ground,'' said Benton, who started kite photography a decade ago after seeing a woman practice it in the Berkeley Marina.....Read Complete Article




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