Balloon In-between

Title: Balloon In-between
Shot Taken From: Balloon Fiesta Park October 2014
Google Earth: 35.197500, -106.596321
I liked that this captures looking through the currently being inflates balloons to one that has already taken off. Also, you can see the Sandia’s in the background. This gives you the feel of how crowded, busy and action packed launching hundreds of balloons of at once is.
General Info: I’m born and raised in Tucson, Arizona but currently live in Albuquerque, NM. The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a yearly festival of hot air balloons that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA during early October. The Balloon Fiesta is a nine day event, and has over 500 balloons each year. The event is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world. Balloon Fiesta Park, from which the balloons are launched, is located on the northern edge of the city. In 2005, the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. Part of the reason for the success of the Fiesta are the cool Albuquerque morning temperatures in October and the Albuquerque box. The "box" is a set of predictable wind patterns that can be exploited to navigate the balloons. At low elevations the winds tend to be northerly (from the north), but at higher elevations they tend to be southerly.


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