Stunning photo taken by Jaipal Singh for the European Pressphoto Agency and sent to my RSS reader by MSNBC’s PhotoBlog.
A worker prepares the kite thread on the road side in the northern Indian city of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir on Tuesday, August 2. The kite string or the ‘dorr’ is made of crushed glass, glue, colors and egg on the thread to make it strong enough to hold the kite. Kite flying is a passion not only in India but all over the world.
Yes, if you look closely, you’ll see that those diffuse rays are strings.