YOUR Pictures Of Kites!

Your Biggest, Best Or Most Colorful...

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.

Ideas: If it's an in-flight shot, you could ramble on about the weather at the time, how the kite behaved in the air and even such things as the reactions of onlookers or the antics of curious birds flying around the kite!

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Kite Pictures Left By Others

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

Fresh Winds Dowel Box Kite
I finished making your fresh wind Dowel Box kite. I used 1/4" dowels for a little extra strength. The kite was flying in 16-20 mph winds. Gusts were …

My 2nd Cody Warkite Success
Hi there, me again Mark from the philippines. This is my 2nd Cody kite made from bamboo sticks, japanese paper, paste and string. There's a kite making …

Cody War-Kite Success
Success Tim! Success! It is made from bamboo, Japanese paper, paste and triple sewing string. I can't believe it... it flies stable. Many people want …

The home made twisted box kite
There is a long story behind this unique specimen. Although this type of kite is found fairly often in the high end kiting stores, to me, spinning box …

The Listing Rhomboid Box Kite
At one point in time I thought newspaper would be a good sail material... Then I tried using it on a box kite. Let's just say my use of newspaper sails …

A Kite Building Challenge...
...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
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
9 Foot delta with laundry plus small Wild Horses delta. Lake Michigan, Muskegon, in Michigan

Big Diamond Kite
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
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
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. …

Kite-flying at West Coast Park
Today is the 3rd time we went for kite-flying at West Coast Park, thanks to my brother-in-law, Tim who made us a kite when he came to Singapore with May …

Mini Gallery - Single Kite In Flight
Using the bendy spar for other kites. Here is a conventional canard kite: length 88 cm, bendy spreader 42 + 42 cm set 31 cm from stern, foresail set to …

"A" Form Three Stick Kite made with Tyvek covering
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. …

Mini Gallery - Static Kite Displays
Another original by RW Kent. STOL, Land or Sea. Note the half submerged fuselage for stability and holding on to the larger fish. Making it possible to …

My first attempt at kite building
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 …

Ring Kites at an Indian Kite Festival
This is my ring photo. Both ring kites were made by me. Black ring diameter is 55 feet & orange ring diameter is 30 feet. I flew them at the International …

Tetra Kites
Inspired by a recent question about tetrahedral kites, I found some 'spoon straws' at a local variety store. I gather the spoon bit on the end is used …

Seaside, OR, US
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 …

Rock My Rok
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. …

West Coast Park Kites Not rated yet
A few days ago now, we were at West Coast Park in Singapore for some kite flying. We are on holiday over here for a couple of weeks. My brother-in-law …

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Pictures Of Kites - a guge white Delta we saw at a festival.

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...

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.
Nice photo of a shop-bought kite, or kites. Some of the pricier ones are very tastefully designed!
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.

Want To Contribute? 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.

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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