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Our country is as flat as a pancake, we have no mountains nor rocks to climb. So we need to be inventive if we want to practice climbing. This tower is a steel and wood construction, 37 metres high, with an overhang of 11 metres.
Picture taken using a camera suspended from a kite in Groningen, the Netherlands. The image is uncropped - this is how it came out of the camera.
Today is Makar Sankranti, a Hindu festival which is celebrated across India.
In Jaipur my hometown, it is celebrated by flying kites. There are thousands of kites in the sky and keeps these guys busy.
A family trip to Camber in East Sussex a few days ago. The weather man said "26 degrees and sunny". Hmm, I don't think so. We took the dog and weren't really sure which part of the beach we could take him on. We overshot the runway so to speak, got out, stretched our legs, I took a few shots, then we drove back to the sandy bit. Although it was quite warm, it always looked like it was going to chuck it down. Anyway, these guys were flying their kite as we were walking back to our car and the contrast between their clothes and the sky was quite striking. I just had to do the decent thing.
I observed this young family of 3 having fun flying this kite. First the father got it into the air, then the mother got her turn, much to the delight of their toddler.
Parkgoers fly kites while the Cherry Blossoms bloom, presumably as part of this year's online-only (:() Cherry Blossom Festival, on the National Mall near the Washington Monument
Drachensteigen, München
Auf der Theresienwiese, kurz bevor der Aufbau für das Oktoberfest beginnt.
Kite Hill; please -- View Large
Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley, California
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Kite flying... a very popular sport in Brazil. As Brazilian as soccer perhaps. In the parks, in the streets, often there are so many flyers in one area that 'congested airspace ' is the result. But they carry on regardless. The kites are most commonly home-made from wooden rods & coloured tissue paper, more economics than anything else, probably. What fascinated most was the skill the flyers have developed to get those kites up there while negotiating the masses of power lines strung criss-cross & hanging mish-mash all over the city of Sao Paulo. On a Sunday afternoon in Sao Paulo east, I watched this young man loop the kite through & over such lines with nothing but a twist of the string around a finger & a tug this way & that. To avoid the hassle of navigating the power lines some flyers will climb onto rooftops. Kite-fighting is another aspect of the sport, the aim being to cut your opponents string & down his kite. Unfortunately the competitive edge to 'kite-fighting' can turn a kite into a lethal weapon. To enhance a string's cutting power, a flyer will coat it with 'cerol', a combo of ground glass & glue. And with the potential for deadly results. The glass coated strings get caught in trees, wrapped around power lines, strung across roads. Birds try to eat them & die. And it seems it is not a myth that more than one motorcyclist (the motoboys of an earlier post) has been decapitated. The use of glass-coated string is banned in Brazil, just as it has been in Pakistan where it's also a common tactic of the kiting sport. But a law difficult to enforce.
Brightly colored box kites soars high over the beach on a marvelous summer afternoon along the Atlantic Coast.
Twirling kite on the National Mall in Washington D.C. during the Cherry Blossom Festival 2017.
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If you look at this image full-screen you can see hundreds of crows on their way home to their roosts...
London, England, UK - June 18, 2017: Crowds climb the artificial hills and fly kites in Northala Fields park in Ealing, west London.
The Northern Dutch Hamlet of Niehove, possibly some 2200 years old and built on a man made hill. Very small, with a 13th century church in the middle and a good place to live in Summer. It is not dissimilar in shape to Spijk, which I KAPed earlier.
Picture taken with a GoPro Hero2 HD suspended from a kite line. I'm in the picture myself - right at the bottom of the frame.
Makar Sankranti marks the beginning of summer which is greeted by the population spending the day on their roofs, flying kites, and trying to cut each other's strings.
Makar Sankranti marks the beginning of summer which is greeted by the population spending the day on their roofs, flying kites, and trying to cut each other's strings.
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From my East Coast Park photowalks, this photo shows a man flying what looked like a mini kite. The backdrop shows the sea lane of Singapore where ships of all sizes ply their route. The cloud formations likewise made the place an interesting shoot location.
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Parkgoers fly kites while the Cherry Blossoms bloom, presumably as part of this year's online-only (:() Cherry Blossom Festival, on the National Mall near the Washington Monument
Happy 4th of July! This is a KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) shot of Playa Montones near Isabela on Puerto Rico's northwest coast.
Sandymount Beach, Dublin. I do not usually upload photographs that are not mine. This photograph was supplied to national and international media by Failte Ireland in order to promote the Dublin as a tourist destination.
Kite Hill, Cesar Chavez Park
Berkeley, California
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