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Charles Benton

No telling how many people have been inspired by “Cris” Benton’s killer Web site to take up kite aerial photography, but it must be quite a few. A professor of …

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Charles Benton

Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Benton has taken daring and beautiful aerial photos from kites. Technically astute, he has used KAP for interesting environmental studies, primarily …

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Taking Flight Inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the First World War

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Old Slide Rule for New Aerial Photo: A Somewhat Odd Trade Offer

A professor of architecture at Berkeley by vocation and kite aerial photographer by avocation, Charles Crisp (Cris) Benton maintains one of the most popular KAP Websites going. He uses it …

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The Bishop’s BoysA Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

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