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Some photos from the weekend...
May. 16th, 2005 05:11 pmHot-air balloons seem to seethe with life as they fill with the hot air that allows them to rise into the heavens. Before they fill out into their graceful inverted teardrop shape, they are first filled part way with ordinary air (using a fan), after which the burners are ignited, forcing hot air into the envelope, which undulates as it rises into the air.
A photo taken a few minutes later, pointing the camera in roughly the same direction, shows a different panorama:
(I've actually geotagged the location where this was taken [lat=35.199; long=-106.595], toward the northeast end of Balloon Fiesta Park.)
When my turn came to be a passenger, we rose gently into the sky and seemed to be in what the local enthusiasts call a "box," which is a phenomenon in which layers of air move in different directions. Under such circumstances, one can stay in one general area by flying in one direction at one altitude, and then changing altitude to take advantage of wind moving in the opposite direction.
For a while, it looked as if we were headed directly back toward our takeoff point, but then the wind changed again, and we began moving to the south-southeast. I took the following shot at an altitude of 1500 feet above the local ground elevation. The view looks toward the north-northwest, back toward Balloon Fiesta Park:
Work continues as before. Two days and a wakeup until I go home, and then I have to jump seriously onto the paper chasing wagon.
Cheers...
A photo taken a few minutes later, pointing the camera in roughly the same direction, shows a different panorama:
(I've actually geotagged the location where this was taken [lat=35.199; long=-106.595], toward the northeast end of Balloon Fiesta Park.)
When my turn came to be a passenger, we rose gently into the sky and seemed to be in what the local enthusiasts call a "box," which is a phenomenon in which layers of air move in different directions. Under such circumstances, one can stay in one general area by flying in one direction at one altitude, and then changing altitude to take advantage of wind moving in the opposite direction.
For a while, it looked as if we were headed directly back toward our takeoff point, but then the wind changed again, and we began moving to the south-southeast. I took the following shot at an altitude of 1500 feet above the local ground elevation. The view looks toward the north-northwest, back toward Balloon Fiesta Park:
Work continues as before. Two days and a wakeup until I go home, and then I have to jump seriously onto the paper chasing wagon.
Cheers...
