This past weekend, even though I was quite ill, I did not want to miss the "Kite Fest" at South Padre Island.
We had seen it a couple of years ago, and now that I heard it was back, I was not going to miss it.
It certainly did not disappoint.
These are some of the large stationary kites on display.
You really can't tell from my photos, but they are huge.
And sometimes difficult to control.
But, when the wind is right, they are quite impressive.
At some points, you don't quite know where to look next.
Some really weird ones.
And some quite artistic ones.
Then, there are the competitive kite fliers, that fly their kites in beautifully planned routines choreographed to music.
Each one very different, showing off their talents.
Then we move into the really breath taking part of the kite show, with the team flying.
This is made up of teams of four fliers synchronizing the movement of their kites with each other.
In a planned out routine all to a specific piece of music.
These routines are breath taking.
My pictures certainly can not do it justice,
I watch this and I keep saying, "How do they not get their kites tangled up together?"
They fly around each other like birds.
And of course they use clear almost invisible kite strings, you can hardly see them.
Still photos don't really capture it, very well, but I didn't really know how to use the video on my camera very well.
I did manage to get one small video clip of this breath taking action. This is something I have to work on.
I got another much longer one but it is full of starts and stops and shots of the ground and my crotch then more kites then Dan's crotch as we both put the camera in our laps not realizing it was still recording. So now I have to take a DAMNED course in video editing. WENDY! HELP!
LET'S GO FLY A KITE!
