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img_5897.jpg This little girl looks like she's about to be eaten by a pufferfish kite... |
img_5899.jpg These four kites are being flown in close formation by four different members of the DC Kite Club. |
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img_5907.jpg Hwa & Giselle watching a member of the DC Kite Club fly while listening to his iPod and dancing! |
img_5910.jpg Bill & Hwa in deep concentration... |
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img_5912.jpg Insert bottom spine rod at ferrule...hook arrow nock into bead tensioners...attach line to bridle...then to tow loop...hmm... |
img_5913.jpg Are we ready...? |
img_5914.jpg I think I'm downwind... |
img_5918.jpg Full patriotic success! |
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img_5922.jpg The pass-off. |
img_5924.jpg Hwa, the expert flyer |
img_5925.jpg Our dragon kite high above the trees and cherry blossoms |
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img_5929.jpg A beautiful, colorful, spirally tailed kite |
img_5934.jpg Full success! The glow of accomplishment... |
img_5935.jpg A demonstration of how to influence the wind direction and thrust... |
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img_5937.jpg ...so, who's taking this picture of the three best kite-flyers?! |
img_5939.jpg Little kid much more interested in rooting around in mom's backpack than in the hundreds of kites flying overhead. |
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img_5944.jpg Someone lost their glasses... |
img_5947.jpg ...maybe they will stumble over to this bright orange cone... |
img_5945.jpg Up, up...! |
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img_5949.jpg Lookin' good... |
img_5950.jpg ...drat...seems to be caught on something... |
img_5951.jpg meanwhile, our dragon kite has reached full synchronous earth orbit. not to brag or anything... |
img_5952.jpg Then, suddenly, without warning, our kite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and did a dive-bomb near this father and son playing soccer. They hoisted our kite back up into the air, and now we're trying to get it away from the road and trees... |
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img_5953.jpg ...it's much harder to do than you would think. Really. |
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img_5955.jpg Fish in the sky |
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img_5958.jpg Hwa may not be tall enough to fly the kite! |
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img_5963.jpg What tangles? |
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img_5965.jpg Dragon kite returns to the ground. "Alight" might be too spritely a term, considering we seem to have our lines tangled... |
img_5967.jpg Nemo is running away... |
img_5970.jpg Happy as clams. Speaking of which...anyone up for fried fish at the SW Waterfront? |
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img_5971.jpg Watch out for the biohazard kite. |
img_5972.jpg Poor Red Baron... |
img_5975.jpg Panda kite! |
img_5976.jpg Super samurai move coming up... |