Windy Day

There are only so many hours you can spend reading about fundamental frequencies and tube lengths in brass instruments before your brain melts so by lunchtime I needed a break from my essay.

Where to go . . . Well, its a Sunday, its blowing about force 7 and its low tide so the decision was easy, the Kite Surfing zone at Hayle Bar.

Photographing kite surfers is always a challenge, the strings are 30 or 40 metres long so if you get a close-up of the person doing some big wave jump you lose the kite which is the colourful bit. I chose this shot for today which was taken from the sand dunes but when I have more time to spare I want to experiment with getting right down to the waters edge really low down to get the action from a different angle.

Oh well back to the essay now, and the wonders of the resonant frequencies of vibrating strings under tension. Yawn.