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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Trick kite
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:27:28 +0200
References: <326F4C84-5AFD-4F20-869C-9B10773B6F21@mac.com> <4AC4FA76.7060103@sfr.fr> <082442BB-05B3-4E3A-B605-2A028D83FB4D@mac.com>


George Lottermoser wrote:

> Thanks for looking Philippe.
> In fact there was enough wind.
>
> I kept coaching them to keep the rigging taut;
> and keep the two lines far apart (he was holding them together);
> and adjust rigging toward nose for "little" wind.
> and hold the kite properly to catch the breeze;
> and run "into" the breeze.
>
> You can see she's holding the kite backwards
> with the rigging slack in the color photo.
> As they applied more and more of my advice
> they gained ever more success.
> But, in the end,
> they'd simply exhausted themselves
> with lack of experience.
>
> I was afraid the fellow would run off the edge of the bluff.
>
Sometimes parents or adults get ants in the arms and fingers when they 
see them kids screwing it all - shall I intrude or not? that is the 
question - part of life I guess, and you caught it so well I immediately 
remembered
:-D

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/180592-1/Kite-1110027.jpg
(Bad bokeh by the way)

Amiti?s
Philippe


> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Philippe Amard wrote:
>
>> No wind , no kite ( this I can tell from experience)
>> Yet, I like the photos very much - so vivid memories with my kids :-)
>>
>> Thanks for the colours George, beautifully rendered.
>>
>> Amiti?s
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>> George Lottermoser wrote:
>>
>>> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=1728>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>> george at imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>>
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