Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I love to watch the kites dancing in the sky. You might recognise someone on here www.peterbindon.com/festival-reports/2024-festivals/st-annes-2024/nggallery/page/2

Thank you Howard, it was lovely to meet you and your incredible jacket at the weekend. We have your pic on our website as well. www.peterbindon.com/festival-reports/2024-festivals/st-annes-2024/nggallery/page/2

Thank you, it was a lovely weekend and it was great to chat with you again. Your kites certainly colour the sky

Thank you, it’s a lovely event to film but I only capture a small amount of it. Every year I say I’ll go for a walk around but then end up flying and the time has gone. Peter definitely helps with the filming though he prefers taking pics that we put on our website.

It’s is a fantastic event Jim, 3 arenas for inflatables and sticks and one for art kites. There were a lot more art kites in the sky that I didn’t manage to capture as I was busy flying our kites as well. It was lovely to see a lot of new fliers this year as well.

@@sarahbindon New fliers are certainly what we need. I'll be 84 in three weeks time, so won't be flying for too much longer, and sadly there are no young fliers in our area despite efforts to encourage them.

Thank you Ron

Thank you, it is a great festival for showing lots of different styles of kites. I’m glad you enjoyed it

Thank you Jim, I’m glad you enjoyed it and as you said Portsmouth is a great festival site and a showcase for all kites. The majority of festivals I go to in this country have a good mix of kites but they aren’t shown as much on KZbin films filmed by the public.

Sorry, I’ve only just noticed your comment, I didn’t have great signal at the event. I hope you got parked ok and enjoyed the event.

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Thank you Michael, she’s a new to us kite, we only picked her up the day before. She was Rolf Zimmermans first Seahorse kite that he made so a a special kite. She’s amazing for her age!

@@sarahbindon oh wow! How awesome!

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It’s a great festival, fantastic creations in the sky and amazing people on the ground

It’s a lovely kite to fly in low wind , its eyes reflect light as well so great for dusk flies

Thank you Carl, it is such a lovely event with a fantastic mix of kites. Unfortunately we weren’t able to fly as many ‘art’ kites as usual there due to the weather this time. I’m sure you’ll see our new kite make an appearance soon.

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Thank you for your lovely comments.

Thank you Jim, this year has definitely been interesting at times for kite flying. I’m hoping August will be better than July for us. Oops - thank you for pointing out that I’m not a time traveller yet! 🙈😂, hopefully corrected now.

Thank you. The kites change throughout the weekend and are very much weather dependent. I think the Friday will have more in the sky as the day goes on as some fliers arrive, I know we can’t get there until the evening for the night flight, which is a lovely experience. I’d keep an eye on the weather forecast and make a decision nearer the time to which day you go. Hope this helps and that you have an amazing time when you visit.

Thank you Carl, it is a lovely friendly intimate kite festival which allows great interaction with the public. The kites you mentioned are by Jorgan Moller Hansen and now owned and flown by Felix Mottram.www.felixmottram.com/decorators/collection.html

Thank you for the link. I have an older Kitelines magazine with photos of the kite trains made by J M Hanson.

Thank you. It was a great show considering the testing weather - strong swirling winds and a few thunderstorms thrown in for fun.

Thank you Jim, I could have watched them for ages spinning around.

Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it

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I’ve found this comment difficult to reply to as I love flying both sparred and inflatable kites and believe the sky is big enough to be shared by all. There is as much skill involved in designing, making and flying all varieties of kites and each deserve their place in the sky. The only ones I object to are the blatant copies we seem to be seeing more of. We do have some great flyers here in the UK and Europe that I’m lucky to be able to call friends after sharing the flying field with them over the years. This is what I love about our hobby.

@@sarahbindon I agree, Sarah, that it's nice to see the big line laundry as well as all the other items, and you and Peter put on some lovely displays. What I don't like is when a kite festival is totally dominated by the PLK items to the exclusion of almost everything else. As you know, the big items need a lot of space, and there are usually areas reserved exclusively for them. When this takes over much, or all, of the space available, it squeezes out all the rest. You seem to strike a good balance in the UK, but some events in America and to a lesser extent Europe, plus one or two in Asia, seem to involve a monopoly by the big stuff, all line laundry, which gives a false impression of what kite-flying is all about. We sometimes find that in New Zealand, too. Trying to encourage new people into flying when they think the only kite is something worth thousands of dollars is next to impossible, sadly. And we need new people, of course, as we kite-fliers don't have a magic potion for living forever. Your mix of kites and line laundry seems ideal, and I look forward to seeing more of your videos through your summer months.

We do have a lot of new kite flyers especially in the north of England where we are but they mostly fly inflatable kites from China, there don’t seem to be as many flyers that fly both inflatables and sparred kites and even fewer that design and make sparred kites. It is a shame when some arenas at festivals are set up for show or sparred and not a mix especially for flyers like ourselves that fly both. It’s one of the reasons we don’t do as many festivals now and prefer to head to the coast and do our own thing.

Thank you. This particular event lends itself more to the smaller sparred kites due to the surrounding trees and often tricky wind conditions. I believe the flute kites will be at another event in a few weeks so I’ll get to enjoy them again. I’m lucky that I have a good collection of both ‘show’ and sparred kites and always try to capture both on my films. I find the public are drawn to the event by the large show kites but then sit down and enjoy all. Luckily there’s plenty of room in the sky for all.

Thank you, we are very lucky to have such beautiful kites and such a lovely place to fly them.

Thank you. The wind was kind to us most evenings. We’re really enjoying the Jac, it’s a fantastic lifter and a crowd pleasure though I think the tigers seem to bring a crowd and lots of photo opportunities.

But did it great rid of ‘under the sea’ from your brain?!😂

@@sarahbindon that it did :-p

Sorry!! 😂 It’s going on in my head still as well if that’s any help! 🙈😂

@@sarahbindon I forgive you :-p

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Lots of KZbin clips that could help teach you how to fly one

Not sure where you are based but if in the UK you could google ‘kite calendar’ where there’s a list of events of ‘Fortuna Found’ has events listed from across the globe. Hope this helps

Thank you, the Cobra is a lovely kite to fly

I can see why you think that but these are all kites, definitely not balloons.

Thank you, they are lovely kites to fly 🪁🪁🪁

Thank you, I really appreciate your lovely comments. No professional training for me, all self taught with a lot of luck thrown in. This is my first time using DaVinci Resolve for the editing, there’s a lot to learn about it but it’ll hopefully add a bit more to the films as well once I get to grips with it. All of this was filmed on an iPhone this time, it’s great to use as it’s always in my pocket and easy to use one handed when you’ve got a kite in the other hand. I’ll try and use the inst 360 next time we’re down there as I really need to get used to it as well.

Thank you so much. The camera flowing through the tails is one of my favourite bits. We had just invested in a Insta360 camera which is a 360 camera on a pole and this was its first trip out. It was used for some of the flowing tail bits. It looks like it will be a great addition to our camera bag.

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The wind was a little strong but with good direction the team brought it down quite easily