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These photos are from an evening Hot Air Balloon Glow
at a Festival in England during summer 2006. The set-up
took place during the last daylight of the day then the "Balloon
Glow" event itself extended into the hours of darkness
- hence the sky looks blue or dark/blue on some of the
photographs, whereas it is a solid black in other pictures.
There were also some changes in the line-up, which you
may be able to spot in the photos below.
One of the challenges of photographing hot air balloons
in general - but especially in the hours of darkness, is
conveying their scale. We've included a photo
of a single "glowing" hot air balloon at the
top of this page This is a typical/average size of the
balloons present in the line-up shown on the right. If
you look down to the bottom-left of the single balloon
you'll see the top-half of a large touring caravan. This
should give you some idea of the overall height and physical
scale of this display.
It's also worth mentioning that the illumination from
the burners is coloured (yellow/orange rather
than white light), see the photo at the bottom. As a result
of this the colours of the balloons when illuminated at
a Balloon Glow are not the same colours as you would
obseve when viewing the same balloon flying in
daylight - even when it's burner is in use. [Back to Balloon
Glows]
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