Up, up and away!

11 April 2009 @ 21:38 in Life Media Wife
Today we went in a hot air balloon; we took off from here and landed here. It was brilliant; I hereby declare it my ambition to be served chilled champagne at 3000′ at least once a month, while floating serenely above some (surprisingly vocal and unsurprisingly spooked) farmyard animals. Wife kindly pointed out that I was taking more photographs than the rest of the group combined, but I did manage to get some nice shots; a few were well-suited to my tilt-shift technique that fools the eye into thinking you’re looking at a scale model:

Balloon 1

And some non-novelty pictures too, such as this one, below. There are lots more, ripe for the desktop-in’, on Flickr.

Balloon 3

I know; I’ve completely overcooked the colours. The crazy slab of shadow is real, however.