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YOUR Pictures Of Kites!

Show Off Your Biggest, Best Or Most Colorful Kite

The pictures of kites featured below are contributed by visitors to this page. Except for the huge white Delta further down this page, which I snapped at a recent kite festival. In my view, the visuals contribute a lot to the pleasures of kite flying. How these creations fly, home-made or otherwise, is only half the experience for most people.



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Yes, you can upload up to 4 images. Handy if you can't decide which one is the best! I'll comment on every submission that I approve.

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Kite Pictures Left By Others

Click below to see photos of some interesting kites from other visitors to this page...

A Kite Building Challenge...  starstarstarstarstar
...A delta-style kite without a horizontal spreader spar.

From playing around with some kite designs in folded A4 paper and use of straws for spars ...

Fish Dopero  starstarstarstarstar
I made this Fish Dopero from the MBK plans over the last 2 evenings. I adapted the techniques a bit for some ripstop nylon I had (from an old spinnaker ...

Mini Gallery - Multiple Kites In Flight   starstarstarstarstar
A collection of visitor-contributed photos, featuring more than one kite in flight.

Big Diamond Kite  starstarstarstarstar
I took the kite plans on Tim's site here (thanks Tim) and stepped them up. This big Diamond kite is 8 ft. at the tips. I just flew it in Tybee Island ...

New Kite Tails  starstarstarstarstar
I made the tails for this kite from nylon. The kite is 7 feet across the bottom. The tails are 2 ft. wide x 10 ft. long. I just went to the beach 24th ...

Dragon kite  starstarstarstarstar
This 23 ft dragon kite took me about 4 months to design and make and over 30 hrs to sew it. I have shown it in the past at Weymouth and Bristol kite festivals....

"A" Form Three Stick Kite made with Tyvek covering  starstarstarstarstar
My wife had cancer and I wanted to contribute something for the cause of cancer survivors so I made a kite.

It is a basic A frame. See pictures.

At ...

My first attempt at kite building  starstarstarstarstar
After finding "My Best Kite" web site and reading the monthly updates from Tim for months, my kids gave me a Christmas gift of a kite building book, "Kites ...

Seaside, OR, US  starstarstarstar
Just a tiny kite, one of several on this trip. This is a DC made from mylar wrapping paper and small (2x30 mm sticks). The size determinate was the mylar ...

Mini Gallery - Static Kite Displays  starstarstarstarstar
A collection of visitor-contributed photos, featuring one or more kites in a static display.

Rock My Rok  starstarstarstar
I've had so much fun with your kite instructions, and the Rok caught my eye because I've tried several versions. I like your bridle ratio, easy and foolproof....

Mini Gallery - Single Kite In Flight  starstarstarstarstar
A collection of visitor-contributed photos, each featuring a kite in flight.



Pictures Of Kites - big white Delta

Now, how's this... From time to time I will feature my favorite contributed image on the Home Page of this high-traffic website! Also, the image will stay up on the Home Page until another one takes my fancy. It could be there for weeks or even months!

So, feel free to contribute here if you have a...

  1. Photo of a good-looking home-made kite. On-the-ground close-up or an in-flight shot, it doesn't matter. Just fill the frame with the kite, and try to ensure it is well-lit by sunlight or flash.
  2. Nice photo of a shop-bought kite, or kites. Some of the pricier ones are very tastefully designed!
  3. Great kite photo, where the art is in the photo itself. In this case, it doesn't matter if the kite isn't in the foreground.



Thinking Of Contributing? Please Read...

Your fellow kite-fanciers who browse through here will really appreciate any extra info you can supply. The kite pictures are 'the main thing' sure, but people will love it if you type in a short description of your building techniques, materials and so on. Or if not a home-build, where did you buy it and what is it called? Just in case people say 'I want one!'

Now, a couple of tips for best results...

Pictures of kites straight from your camera can be uploaded successfully. However, transferring these large raw digital images can take many minutes over a slow Internet connection. Re-sizing the image to around 100Kb or so will still result in a high-quality image on a computer screen. If you haven't done this before, try using Piknik, a free photo-editing service that runs in your browser.

For maximum impact on my site, a photo that's taller than it is wide works best. This way, when my site re-sizes the photo to fit the page, it will appear as large as possible.



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