Fireworks 3-11-2012

Whitstable was the venue for Fireworks this year with Gary and Debs hosting. Dialogue is short as there are many photos. To aid loading, all the photos are compressed, this means they are not full size when viewed in slideshow (which is probably the best way to see them). If there is any photo you would like to see full size please let me know and I will tack it on the end. 2 Cameras sourced these photos which are shown chronologically (well as near as I can get it).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bonfire showed a little shrinkage to previous years and we missed the fun of guessing when the nearby trees would instantly combust and turn to ash or the back fence would burst into flames due to the intense heat.  Gary was not to disappoint us though and came up with several new games based around "Is the fire out yet?" He foxed us all however when with a little assistance from the ensemble, blowing and wafting, he got a miniature inferno going.

 

Many thanks for a wonderful evening.

Light Up The Sky (Children in Need)

 

A couple of lit kites flying over Woodchurch Green

Saturday 27^th October 2012 was the date for “Light Up The Sky” an event to support Children in Need and the chosen venue for Kent Kite Flyers was Woodchurch Green near Ashford. We got there just after 3pm to find the wind was gusting quite strongly but without any consistency, I tried 3 different kites before I could get one to stay in the air and even then it needed constant tending.

My 3D Box Kite from Emma Kites

I was looking for a kite where the spars were visible so that I could stickytape “Glow-Sticks” to them for the night flight. There were a few kites that managed to weather the heavy wind which was a bit steadier once you got up to about 100 feet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Easy Fly Delta in high gusting wind

 

I had real problems getting my four Deltas to carry the various light sets I had bought for them and all bar one seemed unbalanced, I tried strapping the light set to the flying line to take the weight off the kite itself however even this did not work. Fortunately I had one Delta which I had sorted out mid week which seemed to fly okay.

 

Whilst I was struggling with kites and battery packs others had created a wind garden providing light and sound, with strings of halloween lights between them.

 

 

As dusk fell lights were switched on and the night flight began. Photos are few as I was relying on the preset firework setting on my Olympus, sadly it did not work as well as I had hoped.

 

 

 

 

 

I managed to have 3 kites flying, first off my Delta with multicoloured fairy lights attached.

 

 

 

Secondly my 3D box kite in which the glow-sticks were invisible due to an almost full moon shining down on us so I attached half a dozen red and white flashing key-fob LED’s, lastly my Skull Pudsey which looked good once it had been bombarded with dark light. I was pleased with this as I had spent a week creating and painting it with fluorescent paints the original design comes from pyrogirlx.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were quite a few kites in the air with various light displays and sound boxes, unfortunately despite the publicity and hard work put in by the organiser, public attendance was very light.

I have to say thank you for the cookies and cakes which were provided – they were yummy.

Pyrogirlx Link for Pudsey Skull   http://pyrogirlx.deviantart.com/art/Pudsey-Skull-198791743