While the photos below

http://www.pbase.com/bret/2005

are not of sailplanes, they are of soaring. A hawk and sandhill cranes.
If, like me, you were fascinated by soaring birds long before you could
even think of soaring yourself, I suspect you will love them as much as
I do. I just stumbled across them in my web browsing and thought this
group would be interested.

Martin