Soaring Over Harting

A glorious walk up and down ( more ups I think?) The South Downs. A minute after this was taken, the paraglider crash landed, unharmed fortunately

[Casablanca]

Oh goodness! This is a beautiful but scary hobby. Wonderfully photographed, well done

[Susan Wakely]

Great view and capture of the paraglider.

[Shutterbug]

Beautiful capture. It must have been frightening to see it crash. I’m glad to hear he/she was unharmed.

[katy]

I love your POV for this photo and the composition of it! It’s a fabulous action shot and I’m so happy to hear he was unharmed

[Wendy]

Your capture was well timed then if he crashed immediately after, A super shot with the landscape as a backdrop.

[wendy frost]

Wonderful capture for the themes and a lovely clear blue sky and scenery. Pleased to hear there were no injuries.

[Annie-Sue]

timely shot!

[Christina]

Great shot - scary experience for the poor chap!

[Carole Sandford]

A well timed capture!

[Caterina]

Interesting story and nice picture!

[Granny7(Denise)]

Lovely shot

[Francesca Ciarrocchi]

Great capture Jackie!
My challenge for you this week is to realize a creative shot with light painting... :)

[Carrie Shepeard]

Spectacular shot! Glad the glider is ok

[LManning (Laura)]

Holy moly! That’s not something you see every day. Beautiful shot with that stunning view.

[haskar]

Beautiful scene and shot.

[Valerie Chesney]

A stunning capture Jackie of the paraglider & that glorious countryside.

[Misty]

wow

[Kathy]

I like the POV. Glad you were there to help the pilot.

[Jennifer Eurell]

Perfectly composed - and what a view.

[JackieR]

Harting Rise is very high and very steep and the perfect launch site for these is part way up.

This bloke had a few failed launches and finally took to the air past us. He descended rapidly, just missed a gate, but was uninjured.

We walked on and when admiring the view on the hike up to the top ( or taking a rest as I would truthfully call it!) could see he took about 20 minutes to gather up his chute and go back for another launch. By that time we'd gone over the hill so didn't see him have another try.

THANK YOU ALL FOR LOVELY COMMENTS ON MY PHOTOBOMBER!!

[JackieR]

@randystreat no help was needed, we just photographed his landing and then watched his more experienced colleague, who not once flew over the village for another shot like this!!

[Louise]

Not a bad view from there!