UK Kite Photo's

Kite flying in the snow

2008-03-24T18:43:00.004Z

A wintry day in Bolton was the first event of the year, we had regular snow showers and some gusty winds, but it was nice too get out in the fresh air again..

All the pictures are uploaded to my Fotopic gallery, just click on the link at the side.

Dazzz

Gusty!

2007-09-17T09:02:00.001+01:00

A day of winds gusting from 15mph to 30+ meant that we couldnt get the larger kites up. But at least it stayed dry and there were plenty of public in attendance.

Updated galleries

2007-09-09T22:27:00.001+01:00

The pictures from this weekend have been uploaded to the gallery ---->

Dazzz

Night glow

2007-09-08T21:54:00.001+01:00

First time i've seen one of these, great fun.

And we had balloons

2007-09-08T21:52:00.001+01:00

We had 9 got air balloons here today it was fun watching those take off.

Hello bertie

2007-09-08T21:07:00.001+01:00

Met up with the owner of bertie bassett at am event today

Bristol photos uploaded

2007-09-05T12:09:00.000+01:00

I didnt get chance to Blog anything at the weekend as I was too busy chilling and enjoying the festival, but he photos have been uploaded to the galleries --->

Dazzz

Harewood photos uploaded

2007-08-30T12:32:00.000+01:00

Sorry I didnt get chance to blog any photos from Harewood, we were far too busy chilling n flying n chilling n flying etc etc.

Anyway an excellent weekend, probably the best of the year so far in fact, what photos I did get chance to take are now uploaded to my gallery, see the link on the right.

Dazzz

Coming up!

2007-08-22T22:35:00.000+01:00

This weekend we are heading for Harewood House in Yorkshire.

Details are Here

Check it out courtesy of Google Maps

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Gallery updated

2007-08-13T17:37:00.000+01:00

Just got the photos from last weekend uploaded, click the link on the right to get there.

Dazzz

Passing by

2007-08-11T18:53:00.001+01:00

We also had a parade of motorbikes going along the prom today. There must have been several hundred in all.

Close quarters

2007-08-11T18:48:00.001+01:00

As the wind swung around a bit things started looking a little tight! But the weather was good and we didnt have too many problems through the day.

Howay!

2007-08-08T22:12:00.000+01:00

Well we're off to Whitley bay this weekend, it was a bit blowy last year but hopefully a bit nicer this year so we can fly kites on both days.

I've uploaded last weekends pics to my gallery page, just click the link on the right.

Dazzz

Summer has arrived.

2007-08-05T22:46:00.001+01:00

Blue skies and warm winds meant that it felt like summer for the first time in a while. The wind did die down mid afternoon though to leave us sweltering.

Blowing bubbles

2007-08-05T22:30:00.001+01:00

From saturday night the yellow tang fish blowing blue bubbles.

Jumping

2007-08-04T11:09:00.001+01:00

Power kiters warming up at Woodvale rally.

Pics from Flookbrough uploaded

2007-07-31T22:55:00.000+01:00

I've added the Flookbrough pics to my gallery:
http://kites.fotopic.net/c1338034.html

Dazzz

Bzzz

2007-07-29T13:37:00.000+01:00

A dozen karl longbottom bees buzzing around.

Flookburgh

2007-07-28T22:27:00.001+01:00

A day of plenty of wind some sunshine and the occasional shower and we flew a wall of tails.

Another weekend...

2007-07-25T22:49:00.000+01:00

So this weekend we are off to Flookburgh near Grange in Cumbria for a large Steam fair where Kite Collective have been booked to put on a display, theres lots of stalls and exhibits so hopefully i'll get time to wander round and take some photos.

Dazzz

The evening...

2007-07-22T21:58:00.001+01:00

After a good days flying it requires a gathering of like minded souls to dissect the days events. A bit of rain and a lot of alcohol helps too :)

Its raining!

2007-07-20T22:32:00.001+01:00

Well the rain moved in about 18:30 and 4 hours later its dark and its still raining.. So i thought i would send a picture of a couple of my LED powered chinese lanterns for this entry. Oh it also means i have to sit down and drink beer. :)

The sun is up...

2007-07-20T11:12:00.001+01:00

The sky is grey, but i dont case because im on holiday for 4 days. Got a 4 foot delta at 200 feet with 100 feet of transition tail on it so people can see where im camped for this weekend long fly in. Right now i've got my feet up with a cup of coffee. :)

Galleries updated

2007-07-15T22:45:00.000+01:00

I've uploaded all the pics from this weekend to my photo galleries.

Next weekend is a weekend long club fly-in at Bolton-le-sands which is just north of Morecambe here in lancashire, so I may not get round to blogging any photos, depends how much fun i'm having :-)

Dazzz

Windy

2007-07-15T00:06:00.001+01:00

The winds were gusting from 18 to 36 mph at lunchtime today, it made life interesting to say the least.

Line junk

2007-07-15T00:02:00.001+01:00

Karen loads up the line junk.

The bear necessities.

2007-07-14T14:28:00.001+01:00

A brand new peter lynn mid-size bear joins our expanding kite collection.

Richmond Kite Festival

2007-07-12T11:39:00.000+01:00

This weekend we are heading up to the north east corner of Yorkshire to attend Richmond Kite Festival, organised by Malcolm Goodman. Held on the old racecourse on a hill above the town.

This one we are attending just for fun (it was a good weekend last year), so theres no pressure to keep flying all day, we can just do what we like and enjoy the weekend.

Theres a new inflatable thats been completed this week that I want to get some shots of though, so I will stick some photos up :-)

Dazzz

Apology

2007-07-08T21:51:00.000+01:00

Sorry I only posted one picture on the blog today but I dropped my phone and it didnt want to let me view any pictures after that! However now i'm home and i've restarted it and reseated the memory card everything is working ok, so i'm just uploading todays pics to my Fotopic gallery (Link on the right of the page).

A lovely sunny day with a nice bit of wind, Enjoy!

Dazzz

The sun is out

2007-07-08T12:11:00.001+01:00

And the kites are dry and the yellow tang fish we got in the auction last week gets its first outing

Gallery uploaded

2007-07-04T20:22:00.000+01:00

I've uploaded my photos from the weekend to my kite gallery, just follow the link on the right hand side...

This sunday we are headed off to Morecambe, so hopefully I will be able to upload some nice sunny beach photos (yeah right!)

Dazzz

Here be dragons!

2007-07-01T20:15:00.001+01:00

Rolf zimmerman flies his new creation :)

Elvis is in the building!

2007-06-30T23:36:00.001+01:00

A quick session on the mike from elvis soon built up the bidding.

Wirral auction about to start

2007-06-30T20:49:00.001+01:00

Woo!

Toasters r us

2007-06-30T19:57:00.001+01:00

Andrew surveys his new toaster collection :)

Wedding time

2007-06-30T18:27:00.001+01:00

At 2pm andrew and kathleen walked under a tunnel of white kite arches to recite their vows in front of everyone attending the festival

Rain rain rain

2007-06-30T18:20:00.001+01:00

But in between the rain we flew.

Galleries updated

2007-06-26T21:28:00.000+01:00

I've finally got round to uploading all the pics from my phone to my fotopic gallery so you can see all the bedford pictures there (The right way up), looking forward to Wirral this weekend as i'm hoping there will be a very special new kite making its first appearance on english shores...

Dazzz

War!

2007-06-24T15:45:00.001+01:00

A couple of wartime kites spotted in the workshop marquee.

Bedford day 2

2007-06-24T11:15:00.001+01:00

Wet start but its cleared up a bit now.

Sorry bout the sideways pictures but even if I rotate them on the phone it seems to publish them the other way up if I take them in portrait mode, if I cant find a way to do it i'll just have to make sure I use landscape shots in future.

Shark and squid

2007-06-23T19:18:00.001+01:00

A well known pair of inflatables from a designer whose name i'm not attempting on a mobile phone.

Robert brassington kite

2007-06-23T18:29:00.001+01:00

Plenty of kites in the sky from robert today and we had to buy one of his dagger line junk pieces which was in the right colours (red,black,white) unfortunately it started raining before we got chance to try it.

New toy :-)

2007-06-22T21:08:00.001+01:00

A little package arrived from scott hampton just before i set off for the festival and i just unpacked it.

Coming soon!

2007-06-17T16:40:00.000+01:00

Well now the Blog is set up and I can send photo's to it from the phone I hope to be able to do some real-time blogging from some of the events we attend this summer.

First up is Bedford International Kite Festival followed the week after by Wirral International Kite Festival.

As we are invited fliers at Bedford we may be a bit busy trying to get stuff into the air but i'll try to get some photos uploaded both days especially of the kites brought by the international fliers. If for some reason I cant manage it at Bedford then I will get them at Wirral as I'm Field Director there and will be spending more time going round the field talking to fliers whilst sorting out the programme of events.

Dazzz

Blackpool 1

2007-06-17T16:37:00.001+01:00

Test pic from a recent event at Blackpool

Yo!

2007-06-17T15:52:00.000+01:00

Hello there, welcome to my Blog, which basically is only here for one purpose to upload photo's from Kite flying events here in the UK so those people who cant attend can see whats happening on the day rather than waiting a week or a month for someone to upload their camera pictures or wait for a paper magazine to arrive.

Ideally in the future i'd like to see a collaborative page that many people can use to upload images from different events, but for now its just me and my cameraphone (SonyEricsson K800i) and we will see what happens.

I used to upload all my pictures to http://kites.fotopic.net/ but have found myself using it less and less, especially this year, I even remember asking them for a way to create galleries from a mobile so I could upload pictures as they were taken to create a blog style event gallery... So now i'm trying it by uploading directly from my phone to this blog.

You wont see a lot of text entries on here, i'm no writer by any means, but I hope I can put up enough photos from kite events to give a flavour to those who would like to be there on the day but couldnt actually make it.

Dazzz