Kite Aerial Photography
Gallery 2009

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  Feb 7: Clackmannan Bridge. Opened in November 2008, takes pressure off the original 1930s bridge and relieves traffic in Kincardine. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Feb 16: Nazaret, Lanzarote. Typical village in the central area of the Canary Island with its whitewashed villas. See the Panobubble. Rig09 & Flowform 16.

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  Feb 17: Castillo de Guanapay. Built on the lip of an extinct volcano, 452m, looking down on the ancient Lanzarote capital of Teguise. Rig09 & Flowform 16.

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  Feb 18: Vineyard, Lanzarote. Each vine planted in a depression with a stone windbreak to protect the grapes from the heat and wind. See the Panobubble. Rig09 & Flowform 16.

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  Feb 19: Salt Pans, Lanzarote. Salt is recovered from the sea in artificial ponds at Janubio, in the south west of the island. Rig09 & Flowform 16.

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  Feb 21: Teguise, Lanzarote. In the town center an unusual view of  San Miguel Plaza, from above the church of Guadalupe. Rig09 & Flowform 16.

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  Apr 20: Berck sur Mer Kite Festival 2009. Views of the beach and the town. Rig10 & Peter Bults Maxi Dopero.

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  Apr 20: Abbey of Valloires. Pas de Calais, France. Rig09 & Peter Bults Fled.

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  Apr 29: Blackness Castle. Not the best light (or wind) but a time-limit for the World-Wide KAP Weekend meant shoot whatever! Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Jul 13: Abhainnsuidhe Castle. Grand and spectacular, and yet completely incongruous in the rugged rural island of Harris. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Jul 15: Scalpay Bridge. Opened in 1997, an ambitious project to stop the decline in the island of Scalpay by linking with larger Harris. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Jul 15: Bunabhainneadar Whaling Station. Not much remains of this early 20C attempt to bring industry & employment to Harris. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Jul 17: MacGillivray Center, at Northton, South Harris, is a contemporary interpretive center celebrating naturalist William Mac-Gillivray. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Jul 21: Calanais, Lewis. The stone circle/cross dates from 2900 - 2500 BC, located on the west coast of this Hebridean island. See the Panobubble. Rig10 & Dopero.

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  Jul 21: Dun Carloway Broch, on the west coast of Lewis, with walls rising to 9m. Build around 1C BC, and occupied until 1300 AD. Rig10 & Cruiser

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  Jul 22: Bunabhainneadar Tennis Court, North Harris, the most remote in the UK. We managed 45minutes before the heavens opened! Rig10 & Dopero.

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  Jul 24: Rodel Church, Harris. Build by the MacLeods around 1500 the present structure is mostly from 1784. In the care of Historic Scotland. There is also a Panobubble. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Jul 24: Northton, Harris. A brackish burn on South Harris has sculpted tiny islands in the peaty soil. Sometimes KAP lends itself to the unusual and the little details that are all around us. Rig09 & Cruiser.

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  Nov 9: Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate. An old haunt revisited on a windless anywhere else day to KAP with Peter Bults visiting from The Netherlands. Rig10 & Cruiser

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