Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

In search of kite fighters with Harsha (Harri)

Walk through the Pongal festival park that Harsha took me to

January 14, 2011:Hyderabad Kite Fiting

Its a special time and kite fighting is moving ahead in preparation for tomorrow - here is e is kite man - who shared his kite with me

The brownish string is cutting string (abrasive) and the white string is non abrasive

Kiteman and his kite

Kite and a passing jet

Kite lessons

and guess who got to relive the joy of childhood kiting (typically in March in North Carolina)

Harsha and myself

Me flying

Liftoff of another kite

More liftoff

Green kite

Fun kite

Kites in the sky

Sand painting

The sand painting competition

Teaching little fingers how to paint

The art and skill of painting

distributing sand

Placing sand

More distributing sand (carefully) --

Another artist - painting with purple sand

distributing

Finishing touches

More painting lessons - teaching little fingers to paint

Pink painting

A view of the competitors

Welcome at the park entrance

The tea stall - great masala milk tea

Tea man mixing

Tea man pouring

Tea man cooling (pouring) tea (a great skill)

Cooling tea

Adding milk - a first experience of this sort of milking the bag of milk

Milking the bag of milk

Lady in green - practice panning to blur the background

Lady in brown

Portrait man

Another view

Colorful music man

A small ensemble

The Group

The main music man

Then a fascinating experience - a quartet for bull, 2 oboes and drummer

Oboe man

Then this guy has the bull stand on him

Kneeling

Two legs on man

Head of a bull

Foot on head - all the while - crazy music from oboe man and drummer

4 legs on the man - entire bull weight - hmmmm

Video of symphony and bull

Kites at a different venue:w - the lake

Another kite

Kites

Kites everywhere

Kites

Kites

Liftoff

Liftoff

Many kites

Kites kids

Another view

Kite shop

C. Frank Starmer

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