Well, it’s not a big honor or reward or anything, but still it’s pretty cool that they [Schmap] liked my photo enough to want to use it. 
It was a photo that I took at this year’s Smithsonian Kite Festival in Washington DC. In the photo you can see the Smithsonian “Castle” and just some of the massive crowd on the Mall flying kites. It probably helps that it was on Flickr and I was willing to share it royalty-free, but hey don’t spoil the moment.
I remember that day as being one where it was kinda tough to fly a kite. The Mall is flanked on the two sides by a row of large museum buildings, so there’s very little cross wind. Yet, there were kites all around us. My theory is that once you get your kite up about 50 feet, there are stronger upper wind currents which will support flying a kite easily… but down near the ground it was a dead calm.
We tried running to force the kite to fly, but we quickly ran out of running room as there were so many people around. Oh well… at least I got a picture “published” out of it.
