St Annes Kite Festival -

People having fun and at times a bit surreal.

I had a lot of difficulty with exoposure against the sky and any c&c welcome

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These are brilliant Alan, they remind me of Salvador Dali paintings. I think you managed the exposure against the sky perfectly. #2, #3 and #4 being my particular favourites.

Thanks Rob.

Magritte also with his floating men against the sky. Always liked his skies - interesting museum devoted to him in Brussels.

And Dali's museum in Figueres contains some astonishng work.

Thanks for the link to this thread Alan. Our kiting life started at the St. Annes festival many years ago where I bought my first stunt kite. We've moved on to mainly fly these big inflatable display kites (our latest is a 30 metre long Manta Ray) and thoroughly enjoy ourselves doing so. If you are interested we've got 7500-8000 photos on our website from various events we've attended over the years.

From that we can see you done a really good job with capturing these. Most of them aren't darting around the sky (with the exception of the papillon in #5) but there's still a fair amount of movement. Added to that you seem to have handled the exposure well - taking objects against a bright sky isn't always an easy job.