Original Photon — with upgrades!

Photon

Beautiful, easy to fly, highly original design.

Designed by Tim Elverston in 2000, it's the same as we used to make — Except this time it's vastly improved. It now breaks down and rolls up like a normal kite. It has all stainless steel fittings that are handmade in our studio.

Each one is handpainted by Ruth Whiting.

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The original Photon is a peaceful and easy kite to fly. It is very responsive to line input. This size is not optimized for flying as a fighter kite, but it is an extremely controlable single line kite. When flown by hand, it's fun for hours. When tied off, it's up there.

The opposed-bow frame lacks both a spine and a spreader. Instead the spars float against each other and accomplish better tension than a conventional frame can.

Painted with multiple layers of archival paints in outdoor lighting for stunning details and colors — They are equally at-home on a wall as art as they are in the sky.

Hand-tuned and assembled. Each one is slowly and precisely made into a beautiful kite.

With a very wide windrange, from very light to medium winds, flying Photons is super reliable, peaceful, fun, and gorgeous.

Captive connections mean quick and obvious relationships in the structure. Assembly just means following the lines. They are carefully tied to automatically un-twist as the kite opens up.

Shown here in the Photon's classic half-packed state. This is great for quickly tucking into camp.

Ruth holding one of her gorgeous custom hand-painted custom Photon Kites all rolled up.

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