Drove up to Fort Funston in San Francisco at the weekend and managed to get some shots of a couple of hang gliders taking off. These guys jump off a cliff just to the left of the observation deck and then soar up into the sky passing the front of the deck. Great for getting in-flight photos!
whilst still learning the frame rate of my nikon, i took this series of a hang glider launching over steaming hot ishikawa prefecture. in some of the shots, you can see the shrine – shirayama jinja – we visited only a few minutes later…
a really photogenic activity (although they must be insane)!