Kites

I like kites, both making and flying them.

Fighter kites are my favorites. At the Easter 2000 I won the inaugural NZKA Fighter Kite Competition, and wrote some notes for a workshop at an earlier NZKA event in Christchurch. Some pictures of a few of my fighters can be seen here.

Here are some pictures of non-fighter kites I took at the NZ kite Flyers Assoc. national meeting at Nelson, Easter of 2000:

These beauties are by Robert van Weers. 

...and this jolly fellow is from John Whibley.

A couple of gorgeous Tyvek fighters by Jim Ayers

Once I get the hang of scanning and editing these, I'll take and post more...