Andrew and Kathleen Beattie

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Exploring the River Thames

Shooting puffins on the island of Skomer

Tour to Scotland

Truck racing at Brands Hatch

Tandems and Tongham Motor Club

The Red Nose party and trip to Colchester Zoo

Red Nose 2009

Ancient buildings in Singleton

Marwell and Arlesford

A week of fun and frolics in Kuwait

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere

Next on the world tour of zoos is Twycross and Chester

We went back to marwell with a group from the "Talk Photography" forum

Hawk Conservancy

Andrew took second place in the 2008 season of the OcUK Photo Competition

Andrew was asked to shoot the Chapman twins

In memory of Monty

A trip to Paignton Zoo

A trip to Bristol Zoo

A trip to Marwell Zoo

For Christmas, we took Mum to Covent Garden, in London

Raptors, both wild and captive

Portraits from the office party

The scenic route home from Leven

A trip to the seaside to see the seal pups at Donna Nook.

Renting fancy lenses from Lenses for Hire.

Looking for symetry at the hawk conservncy in Andover

A potted history of Free Software

The 2008 Tour of Europe, covering France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Fermany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Monaco.

Our first serious photo assignment was Karen and Greg's wedding. We were as nervous as the groom but a lovely bride, perfect weather and happy, interesting people made it easy.

John Dobson organised a fly in way up North in Allendale

Only Mad Dogs and Kiwis go out in the mid-day sun in Qatar.

A discussion about Anchors.

Playing in Hyde Park on a late summer afternoon with Shona.

Down to Margate

Bristol 2008 was as good as ever.

We visited Stonehenge on the way to Bristol Press Day.

Lightweight KAP rig.

A Rose by any other name.

Andrew has a Virgin problem.

A weekend spent with the Al-Farsi Family in London.

A blustery weekend in Whitley Bay

A tale of Feather beds and river beds

Our first experiments with Kite Aerial Photography

Landscape and caves on the way back from Manchester

We would like to dissasociate ourselves from a story in the news.

At Kathleen's school, they have difficulty persuading teachers to return books to the library before the Summer holidays.

A trip to a distant, exotic Island.

We went into London, just to take pictures of Windows.

The Al-Farsi Lifting Kite raising a quarter of a ton!

No pictures for a Weekend at home.

Perfect flying weather for our first wedding aniversary at The Wirral.

There wasn't a breath of wind at Bedford festival.

Whilst everyone in England suffered the archetypical bank holiday wet weekend, we went to Falkirk.

The 11th Suffolk kite festival at Rougham.

Andrew went to Wales for work.

Down to the Hawk Conservancy and out in the country again.

On a whim, we spent the May Bank Holiday in Europe.

We went to Berck and Paris with the Al-Farsi Kite team.

Andrew's Continuing rehab (April onwards)

We enjoyed the Hawk Conservancy so much that we have been back trying to hone our photographuc skills

The Hawk Conservancy Andover

Duck shooting

Andrew's rehab (updated more-or-less daily)

Andrew's fall

We helped to fly the Three biggest kites in the world in Kuwait.

We took Mother to the Isle of Skye for Christmas.

Building a 4m Pilot Kite on a Sunday afternoon.

Firework night.

Andrew got a new FishEye lens we took it to London and Wales.

Visiting Parnu in Estonia with the Helsinki Kite Mafia

Summer holiday in Whitley Bay, Loch Rannoch, Solfest and Greenbelt

Maiden Castle, New Forest, Jolly Up and Windsor

Richmond 2007

Festival Wedding

Blackpool 2007

The Three Door Problem

If you have Google Earth installed then you can visit all the places round the world where we have flown kites together.

Switzerland, October 2006 - Vacation in the Alps without kites (PDF)

Website update, October 2006 - Our main website hadn't been updated in years. It now reflects reality.

Maximum Baggage, September 2006 - Baggage allowance rules are made to be pushed to the limit. We push hard.

Tanah Lot, Bali, August 2006 - PDF report on our first trip to the Far East.

Kuwait, Feb 2005 - A collection of photos showing the fun we had on our trip to Kuwait to break the Guinness record for the world's largest kite flown.