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Uttarayan is a festival that’s synonymous with kite flying. Every year on 14th January entire families gather together on the terraces, roofs or any other part of their house exposed to the sky.
It is a magical feeling, seeing the entire city engaged in the same sport, the sky covered in tiny colourful specs of kites.
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Toute la Ville sur le toit, Ahmedabad, Inde
Uttarayan est un festival de cerf-volants en Inde. Tous les 14 janvier, des familles entières se réunissent sur les terrasses et les toits de leur maison exposée au ciel. C'est un sentiment magique de voir toute la ville engagée dans une même activité, le ciel ainsi couvert de minuscules confettis colorés que forment les cerfs-volants.
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When we first arrived at the Racetrack Playa there were a few groups of people enjoying the playa flying kites and taking pictures. I suspect they were thrilled about having survived 26 miles of bone shaking on the Racetrack Road and gathering courage for the return trip!
This was taken on the back lawn of Pinewood Estate, Lake Wales. There's a slight grade to the lawn and this little girl was just having a blast running up and down, flying her kite.
Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday!
Cai Bé (Vietnam) - Nous sommes tombés par hasard sur un rassemblement de cerfs-volants. Personne, même pas à l’hôtel, ne nous avait parlé de cet événement festif. Il a juste fallu lever les yeux au ciel pour voir une nuée d’objets hétéroclites en vol plus ou moins stationnaire. Il fallait s’attendre à voir un tel spectacle, à un moment ou à un autre, car on accorde à l’Asie (probablement à la Chine), l’origine de la pratique du cerf-volant.
S'il y avait un embouteillage de panthères, de dragons et autres poissons volants dans le ciel, il en était de même avec les scooters au sol. Si les Vietnamiens ne peuvent se séparer de leur smartphone, il en est de même avec leur mobylettes ou scooters, sans lesquels ils ne semblent plus pouvoir se déplacer. Ils assistaient au spectacle, assis sur leur deux roues, filmant et photographiant dans cette position. En conséquence, j’ai mis à pied plus de 20 minutes pour franchir un mur de scooters pour rejoindre l’aire d’envol des cerfs-volants.
Aerial Ballet
Cai Be (Vietnam) - We stumbled upon a kite gathering by chance. No one, not even at the hotel, had told us about this festive event. All we had to do was look up to the sky to see a cloud of diverse objects in more or less stationary flight. We had to expect to see such a spectacle, at one time or another, because Asia (probably China) is believed to be the origin of the practice of kite flying.
If there was a traffic jam of panthers and other flying dragons in the sky, the same was true of the scooters on the ground. If the Vietnamese cannot part with their smartphones, the same is true of their mopeds or scooters, without which they no longer seem to be able to get around. They watched the spectacle, seated on their two-wheelers, filming and photographing in this position. As a result, it took me more than 20 minutes to cross a wall of scooters to reach the kite launch area.
Semaphore, South Australia, Australia - April 15, 2017: Flying kites at the Adelaide International Kite Festival
Well all you winter haters out there, (you know who you are) here it is, the Vernal Equinox, that time of the year when the soil warms and planting begins, birds and animals sing and dance and put on their best plumage, flowers bloom and the lost sunglasses are replaced with new ones..... Rejoice, go out and play, perhaps fly a kite. :-)
Semaphore, South Australia, Australia - April 15, 2017: Flying kites at the Adelaide International Kite Festival
Semaphore, South Australia, Australia - April 15, 2017: Flying kites at the Adelaide International Kite Festival
India celebrates the festival of Makar Sankranti on 14 January every year (on 15th if it is a leap year).
It marks the transition of the sun from the zodiac of Sagittarius to Capricorn (makara). As this coincides with the sun's movement from south to north, it is dedicated to the sun god Surya.
Regional flavours mark the celebration of this festival. However common to all flavours is social gatherings, song and dance, bonfires, spiritual practices and of course, good food, especially sweets made from sesame seeds and jaggery.
In Gujarat, in western India, the festival is know as Uttarayan, and is celebrated by flying kites over two days. Aerial fights are common, the aim is to severe your opponent's kite from its string. Screams of 'kai po che' rent the air when one succeeds in de-capacitating an opponents kite.
There are some downsides. People fall off rooftops, ground glass coated kite strings - great for the aerial battles, banned by law which is difficult to implement - cause serious injuries and sometimes death. Not reported is injury to birds and animals. However volunteers, charitable trusts and vet clinics come together to treat the injured animals.
Kite flying at Garry Point Park, Steveston, British Columbia with the beautiful snow-covered Coastal mountains in the background. Kite flying is a popular sport in the local area with its diverse multi-ethnic population.
27/02/2018 www.allenfotowild.com
One of the many interesting Kites of the annual Lake Harriet winter kite festival in Minneapolis, MN
Abandoned Flight. Beachgoers frolic in the background as this kite, once flying high, was brought down, tethered and left behind. #kiteflying #beachday