Reportaje para Lineas de Paisaje - Press interest!

Habia mucho reportaje en la prensa de Andalucia sobre las fotos de Steve en el Museo Pedro Gilabert in Arboleas - ver:

www.elalmeria.es/article/ocio/155469/steve/brockett/lleva/sus/fotos/aereas/museo/pedro/gilabert.html

www.ideal.es/almeria/20080611/cultura/imaginacion-contra-frivolidad-20080611.html

y http://www.portalmanzora.es/ foro de discusion>arboleas>museo pedro gilabert

o en ingles ver abajo:

Lots of press coverage of the exhibition, click on the links above or see a profile of Steve Brockett in Almeria's 89.8 magazine below:

from sky to gallery

The first exhibition of my aerial photos in the museo pedro gilbert
arboleas. a lovely space with lovely staff and a very supportive
town hall

On show are 22 photos in limited edition a2 prints of the
landscape around almeria many thanks to Luis Ramos
the director , Conche and Lala for
all their help and support


in the end the show was impresionantesssss! we were happy!


lots of people came to the private view and thanks to everyone
who made the effort!
here are just some of the people who matter!

Up, up and away!

A cracking day for Graham's tandem flight with Gecko Fly Parapente - at last, summer flying weather is here! Watched by family and friends Graham and Steve fast became a small speck in the sky with the highest altitude achieved on a a tandem flight here at Saliente!

Safely back on the ground Graham admitted it took him 10 minutes into the flight before he looked down!

Here he is being clipped in just before take off.

Should have been there!

The third Saliente Fly(ing) Fiesta saw some luck with the weather, big black clouds behind us but fab flying conditions and sunshine for the spectators. Richard got his birthday tandem at long last, Antonio made it to 700m above take off (thats 2000m above sea level!) and Cabrero of Almanzora experienced some spiral diving on his tandem flight with steve. Classic landings on the Plaza in front of the santuario (missing the crucifix this year).

Loads of nice folk came and enjoyed - in the sky and on the ground - a big thank you to dj bumble, hector, sam and trish for music, raffle and keeping an eye on the ground and in the air and well done Kevin and Kath for winning the raffle (you certainly know how to up the odds!!)

See you next year!

I forgot my camera so thanks to Mike Y for a few photos!

Third party fire and theft

Local insurance man Glen has been waiting for the weather to warm up to experience free flight above Saliente but finally last week the day arrived - Glen's daughter however was in floods of tears about her dad running off a mountain - but once we all got up to take off she cheered up!

Here's Glen at the landing looking in his pocket for the cloud he promised to bring back for his son!

Exposición Steve Brockett

steve's exhibition at the museo pedro gilabert
arboleas from june 13th to july 25th-
images taken over the last two years
flying over the almerian landscape
opening 13th june at 9.00pm

Descubre Los Vélez-Discover Los Vélez-Ontdek Los Vélez

Check out the new website http://www.losvelezrural.com/ - information on where to stay, what to see and activities in the Los Velez region and el Parque Natural Sierra Maria

Third Saliente Fly Fiesta!

Third Fly Fiesta at Saliente! - theres a good weather forecast - more flying tunes from dj bumble, the chance to win a tandem flight and of course some great flying for paragliding pilots from Almeria and Murcia!

For the evening there's flamenco music and dancing and Cabrero's mobile pizza van could be making an appearance......see you there, hasta pronto!

11 countries in 2 days...

Just the last 2 days our blog site has been visited by people from 11 different countries...
Spain - Barcelona, Malaga, Almeria, Murcia
Brazil
Guatemala
UK - London
Germany
Kazakhstan
Serbia and Montenegro
Norway - Tromso
USA - Salem, Orange County
France - Paris, Ile de France
Greenland - Nuuk Vestgronlau.....
thats great .......who are you all??

Significant birthdays!

Its been a week of flying passengers celebrating their 'significant' birthdays - it was a pleasure to fly Judith and her son Spencer at Saliente - friends and family all gathered on the mountain top to sing Happy Birthday as Judith soared overhead!











The average age of tandem passengers so far this year has been around 50 - what about all you younger ones?

Feliz Cumpleanos!

Happy Birthday Ron!!

What better way to celebrate your 70th birthday than running off a mountain in Saliente Alto - heres Ron raring to go and with a good luck kiss from partner Jean...the first 2 minutes were fantastic Ron says but he blames his cousin Brian (of the Star Bar in Velez Rubio) and too much ice cream for the rest of the flight!

Landing supervisor Ramon remains unmoved by the news that our latest passenger is 70 today - he is 80 something and and still maintains that anyone who wants to fly is crazy (he wont let his wife do a tandem either).......

happy birthday dad

well we sold a lot of tandem vouchers over xmas and have
people been slow to contact us re the flight!!!
well done sam who gave us a ring having been bought one
for his 50th birthday but he ended up with a flop to bottom
on the sat- so we couldn't have that, and conditions looked better
for sunday , so now an old hand , sam had a great flight
saw dolly and had a close encounter with an eagle !

meanwhile max and heidi had kite fun on the take off

joaquin and his trike

Joaquin bought a brand new airfer v200 paramotor and
trike and after waiting for a few weeks for suitable weather
we went off to aguilas to try it all out. Sebastian a trike pilot
was testing it all out ,unfortunately it kept loosing power
and Joaquin was limited to using it as a expensive
powered go-cart!


I'm sure it will all get sorted and joaquin will take to the skies
without having to run at all!

lorca's first thermal !

lorca catches a thermal with a kite and
loves it !

parawaiting

April wasn't a good month ! apart from the occasional day
we had soooo much wind from the west and so what better
than publish a picture of the much practiced activity
of parawaiting , to be fair we do a lot less than in the UK
waiting for the wind to drop , pick up, come round on to the hill,
smooth out, wait for thermals to start, there are many reasons
why we adopt the above pose! all you need is a massive dose of
optimism.

At last, John gets in the air!

We've been trying to arrange to give John of Search Almeria; Valle Radio and the soon to be Albox TV station a tandem flight since before christmas.
Finally all of us were in the same place at the same time and the weather conditions promised a cracking flight. John and Steve flew for 40 minutes above the Estancias, saw Dolly the Sheep - and John was even heard saying he enjoyed the spiral dive! Great afternoon - thanks for the beers John and the use of your zoom lens - heres a photo of Steve and John in the air - they were miles away when i took this - honest!

Salvemos el Palacio del Almanzora

A campaign has been launched to restore the beautiful old palace in Almanzora designed by 18th century architect Ventura Rodríguez.
Juan 'Medico' of Club Gecko Fly is currently the chairman (isn't he busy enough?) of the 'Amigos del Palacio del Almanzora' who want to see el Palacio turned into a centre for education, enjoyment, culture and arts.......for those of you who've never seen it and don't know where it is - take a look - its behind the Plaza in Almanzora village.
More information, photos and to support the campaign check out
http://www.portalmanzora.es/salvemoselpalacio
or visit Freebird's stall at the Albox/Arboleas Rastro - Cafe Bar Internacional on Saturdays - for an update and to add your name to their petition

carlsberg beer commercial

The latest carlsberg commercial is being made in tabernas.
Film set for many a famous western
the boys are back this time as cowboys.
We got a call to do some aerial filming after the director
had an idea for an aerial shot and obviously no budget
for helicopters

So this was a first for us but good experience not least
working out how best to carry the 35mm film camera
battery pack and video monitor an extra 12kg



Thanks to mathias the grip who sorted out the kit!
we didnt have the best conditions to fly with the wind
dropping off very late and even then it was a bit turbulent
with a front fast approaching



But what could be better than chasing and filming galloping
cowboys yeeeehaaaa !!!

So far March has been a great month for publicity.....

here's an article on tandem paragliding with Gecko Fly

in local magazine 89.8 - the Whats on Guide to Almeria

- and an interview at Valle Radio coming up next week!

http://www.search-almeria.com/

and

http://www.valleradio.net/

mojacar magazine online

steve's on front page again !!
http://www.mojacarmagazine.com/