frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

There was a balloon lift of to celebrate the Clovis hat days which was delayed because of covid. We have had a lot of fires in the area nd the smoke is so bad there was barely a mile of visibility, but only maybe a quarter of decent. The photos in the dark Were very hard for me. Even at 12,800 iso they were hard. Very grainy and the camera hard a hard time focusing and I forgot to manually do so, since the photos looked ok on the camera. The first few are like this. I did get some good shots a the sun came up. They would not let us close to get a shot into the balloon with the flame. I tried to record the set up, but it was to dark to get good photos, so don't expect to look good at 100%. You can tell by the white sky (smoke) how bad the air is.

See part two for Balloons in flight, and flame.

Plastic on ground for the balloon to rest on when it is laid out


Balloon laid out on tarp


Getting ready to inflate with a hot air fan

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Half way inflated

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Almost there

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A look at the inside (I had to sneak up to get it)

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First flame to help raise it

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Up right with another flame

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Ready to give tethered rides

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Lift off

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Toment Loc: FL, IL

Beautiful balloons
Thanks for sharing

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Excellent shooting 🌀☀️🏆☀️🌀

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Thank you very much toment.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Thanks for the thumbs up Bill.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Thank you very much Joe.

tcthome Loc: NJ

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Nicely captured Frank! Looks like that was a great day to be out with camera in hand.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Thanks for looking and the thumbs up tcthome.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Thanks for looking Bill, and the kind words. It took three hours total for the event from start (first arrival) to finish (last balloon lift off). Glad I had my walker to sit on.

Susan yamakawa

I am glad you were persistent 😊😊👍👍