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I went out to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque both mornings last weekend and watched two of the Mass Ascension events under perfect ballooning weather. I shot over 600 photos, so it's going to take me a bit of time to sort through them and pick out a couple dozen or so to show other people.
In the meantime, here's a panorama shot I took Saturday morning before the sun was up and before the majority of the balloons were in the air. This is about 100 balloons; there were about 550 total that flew. Still a lot fewer than the mid-1990s when we'd have 1000+ balloons flying. They had to cut back on the number of balloons due to the decline in the number of safe landing spots. A lot of empty spaces now have buildings on them.
Click here to see a larger version (6400 x 1832) of this photo. Beware...it's almost 9 MB in size, so you probably don't want to click this if you're on a dial-up connection.
I'll post more pics once I've gone through them all.
In the meantime, here's a panorama shot I took Saturday morning before the sun was up and before the majority of the balloons were in the air. This is about 100 balloons; there were about 550 total that flew. Still a lot fewer than the mid-1990s when we'd have 1000+ balloons flying. They had to cut back on the number of balloons due to the decline in the number of safe landing spots. A lot of empty spaces now have buildings on them.
Click here to see a larger version (6400 x 1832) of this photo. Beware...it's almost 9 MB in size, so you probably don't want to click this if you're on a dial-up connection.
I'll post more pics once I've gone through them all.