Hot Air Balloon

peter

Hot Air Balloon

I went for a hot air balloon ride a couple of weeks ago – it’s quite the way to travel. I was surprised by the accuracy of the ‘steering’. The wind direction varies with altitude, so the pilot took us up and down into different air currents to control our direction. We landed within a few hundred metres of the target – after a 20km flight. Mind you, we did crash into a tree during the landing. This is an image looking into the ballon from the basket.

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Hot Air Balloon by peter
Hot Air Balloon by peter
  • paul romanowski

    paul romanowski

    nice shot, giant fan of sort….......

  • Bjana Hoey

    Bjana Hoey

    wow thats awesome….love the repetition!!

  • Lisa Defazio

    Lisa Defazio

    Very cool. something i am yet to do! Brilliant image.

  • Leisa  Hennessy

    Leisa Hennessy

    now thats cool mate … a unique angle :)

  • imageworld

    imageworld

    tried hot air balloninig awesome feeling

  • Carmen Mandel-Cesáreo

    Carmen Mandel-...

    Enthralling geometric pattern

  • Robert Elliott

    Robert Elliott

    great perspective, a huge red bubble

  • Antoine Dagobert

    Antoine Dagobert

    Beautiful pattern and colors!!

  • Jewd

    Jewd

    I love this shot Peter, the color is so rich and the perspective brilliant, it looks like its taken from above…I’ve been promising myself a balloon ride for years…thanks for the reminder of how gret it will be…

  • Jeff  Burns

    Jeff Burns

    Perfectly framed and very clever.
    Great detail

  • Christophe Testi

    Christophe Testi

    Very nice abstract.

  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    It’s very red! Cool textures.

  • Lisa  Kenny

    Lisa Kenny

    Very cool shot Peter

  • Michael  Bermingham

    Michael Bermi...

    Holy cow…this is spectacular…

  • FlickerLightStudio

    FlickerLightSt...

    What a rich color and excellent perspective! Love it! ~S

  • chriso

    chriso

    Nice shot! Great colour and detail. Must have been an amazing trip.

  • MuscularTeeth

    MuscularTeethVoted Most Helpful Bubbler

    awesome boss.

  • janik

    janik

    Superb.

  • Brett Yoncak

    Brett Yoncak

    Really cool picture. Great job

  •  Cheri Perry

    Cheri Perry

    What an outstanding capture. Love the abstract look to this.

  • Gayle Shaw

    Gayle Shaw

    Oh I just love hot air ballooning, it is such a peaceful way to travel and you can hear things like cattle as clear as day from up there. I just love the way you approach your images from different angles.

  • Bahoke

    Bahoke

    Fantastic capture!!

  • Stephen Forbes

    Stephen Forbes

    This is great, love it and would love to do it…

  • Paul Hamilton Photography

    Paul Hamilton ...

    Turned out wonderfully Peter

  • checkma8

    checkma8

    gorgeous image

  • JoLennox

    JoLennox

    Nice shot peter… Lovely colour… It looks very similar to the one i took in Egypt back in June… Isnt it a great experience!! One of my most exhilarating and scary trips of my life so far!!!

  • Martina Ströbel

    Martina Ströbel

    beautiful colour and textur!

  • Alan Findlater

    Alan Findlater

    brilliant colour and shadow

  • jab03

    jab03

    wonderful wd:D

  • franzi

    franzi

    great shot, i love the intense red and the perspective! never went on a hot air baloon myself, must be a great feeling… :)

  • Jayne Wozniak

    Jayne Wozniak

    Love this so much..

  • Graeme Pettit Photography

    Graeme Pettit ...

    Reminded me of a flower too. Nice alternative study of the subject.

  • Basia McAuley

    Basia McAuley

    Awesome!! I love the rich colour, the great clarity and the abstract quality to this image.

  • georgiegirl

    georgiegirl

    I LOVE hot air ballooning… It’s so peaceful (when the gas jets are off) and very beautiful up there. Just floating around under a really huge bubble!! It’s a brilliant photo you’ve got there.

  • Keegan Wong

    Keegan Wong

    beautiful simplicity, well done peter.

  • Cathy Middleton

    Cathy Middleton

    Almost a mandala. Beautiful work Peter. Well done.

  • Skip Hunt

    Skip Hunt

    splendiferous!!! I’ve been on hot air balloon rides and never thought of this angle. Damn you! :-)

  • earthangel

    earthangel

    Interesting shot, I’ve not been in a balloon yet, but have helped set them up and pack them away- spectacular!

  • ajreece

    ajreece

    Such an intriguing perspective!! Very interesting shot!

  • Jeremy Harrington

    Jeremy Harrington

    awesome abstract, rich colour and lines work well

  • Faizan Qureshi

    Faizan QureshiAll Rounder

    I love this image Peter. The perspective makes this shot really very interesting. :-)

  • Bruce  Watson

    Bruce Watson

    Nice shot. Kind of mandala-like.

  • ed wong

    ed wong

    great capture

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    great shot – love the graphic nature of the piece… so abstract, yet so defined as well… love how you’ve framed this Pete! and also how freakin’ brave are you! wow!

  • D. AMO

    D. AMO

    Inspiring! I’ve been wanting to and now!!! Love the red, the X’s and the radiation from the centre. Thanks!

  • D. AMO

    D. AMO

    I’d add RED to your tag if I could!

  • Jason Adams

    Jason Adams

    Very nice shot Peter

  • Katja Klages

    Katja Klages

    Great graphic image… love the colour :-)

  • Janine  Hewlett

    Janine Hewlett

    great shot!!

  • Lucindawind

    Lucindawind

    fantastic view !

  • chasingsooz

    chasingsooz

    I love this photo and your description reminds me of our wedding day when our hot air balloon crash landed into a recently ploughed feel and i had to crawl out in full wedding dress lol. Anyway, vibrant, beautiful shot.

  • Inishiata

    Inishiata

    Wonderful image – reminds me of a crop circle. Love the intensity of the colour.
    I was really surprised at the noise of the gas jets – thought I would be on a silent trip …guess I hadn’t really thought how we would get up there…and stay there.

  • Namueh

    Namueh

    cool capture

  • ozczecho

    ozczecho

    Sweet…cool point of view….

  • Bevsimages

    Bevsimages

    OOohhh great image I love red…I’d be a bit scared but bet it was great x ;)

  • Michael Kienhuis

    Michael Kienhuis

    just a super image. Love this. Regards M:>

  • MaddyPaddy

    MaddyPaddy

    Wow Beautiful capture Peter! :)

  • Glenna Walker

    Glenna Walker

    I love hot air balloons, got some pretty good shots myself at a local balloon festival in Jun 08, great shot from inside the ballon Peter!

  • peterworks here replied

    Thanks Glenna – they’re quite noisy things – which surprised me.

  • pattihaskins

    pattihaskins

    Wonderful color,rather like those wonderful things you saw in those old glass Kaleidoscopes and then is was gone,what imagination!

  • Tracey McKeown

    Tracey McKeown

    Love the colour!!

  • Martina Thompson

    Martina Thompson

    Stunning!!!

  • PJ Ryan

    PJ Ryan

    how gorgeous .. i love the ambiguity of this image.

  • Di Dowsett

    Di Dowsett

    wow! great shot…love it!
    xx

  • Kenny Gulley Jr.
  • KSkinner

    KSkinner

    Yes that’s RED! Great comp!

  • Steve Chapple

    Steve Chapple

    Now that is clever, great perspective!

  • Patricia Gibson

    Patricia Gibson

    I just love this POV great composition and colour. I’m not having any luck with Ballooning, someone up there has it in for me, twice now we were on the field and never got up in the air due to bad weather. Third time lucky I hope-lol!!!

  • Carolyn Violet

    Carolyn Violet

    Wow! The colours here are so striking. I can’t take my eyes off of it. It just absorbs me! Perfectly centered, brilliant composition, lovely capture! :D

  • Allison Parrello

    Allison Parrello

    I know that feeling of floating on air in a balloon. So peaceful.
    Beautiful vibrant colour in this shot.

  • Taschja Hattingh

    Taschja Hattingh

    This is one of my dreams – to ride in a hot air balloon! I am scared of hights but this one I wanna do! This is so thrilling to see!!!! Makes my hart jump up and down…..oh sorry that’s me! Great shot!

  • Amanda Yates

    Amanda Yates

    Nice shot! I love the composition and the vibrancy of the colour!!

  • roybarry

    roybarry

    Perfect framing Peter. Liking this shot, rather a lot.

  • claudiaveja

    claudiaveja

    that’s cool

  • Sharon Mau

    Sharon Mau

    I love the optical illusion of movement when I scroll my mouse up and down and the deep rich scarlet red colours and patterns are very beautiful!!

  • Diane Schuster

    Diane Schuster

    What vibrant colors and wonderful lines. It pays to look up sometimes! lol! Beautiful image!

  • mss3

    mss3

    great pic, wonderful color…almost thought it to be the petals of a daisy!

  • Mohsen Bayramnejad

    Mohsen Bayramn...

    SYMBOLIC and so CREATIVE!
    almost abstract…

  • Adam Bykowski

    Adam Bykowski

    Cool shot. Like all the shadows and textures. Nice one.

  • BLYTHART

    BLYTHART

    Not so much a Redbubble as a Redballoon :) Great design Peter.

  • allisonberryart

    allisonberryart

    AWESOME MANDALA!!! won’t you join my mandala group and post please?

  • Dave  Corn

    Dave Corn

    Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…LOVE IT!! Love those Hot Air Balloons!
    Kudos To Ya!

  • Matthew Scotland

    Matthew Scotland

    intense hypnotic image

  • John Beamish

    John Beamish

    Really really red, great shot.

  • Ghelly

    Ghelly

    I love the composition here, vibrant color, I love it

  • dominiquelandau

    dominiquelandau

    Amazing shot..:0 Wonderful!

  • Mary Campbell

    Mary Campbell

    Very nice symmetry and color. Love the feeling of freedom on the wind a ride like this offers, but you need to watch those tree’s (lol)

  • zomboy

    zomboy

    they are amazing mechanisms that is for sure – great shot!

  • Cheryl  DeLong

    Cheryl DeLong

    Cool shot, went up in a blimp once and they are kinda noisy too.

  • Meeli Sonn

    Meeli Sonn

    Great patterns

  • KiwiAna

    KiwiAna

    LOL! Youwent on a ride in a Red Bubble! Did you take the team? What a cool team builder that would be? I shall have to mention it to my head of Public Service (snerk I’m sure they’ll file that idea away in the delete box pretty quick)

  • peterworks here replied

    We crashed into a tree on the way down … so I’m not sure I’d want to take the whole team with me!

  • Mukesh Srivastava

    Mukesh Srivastava

    Brilliant image….

  • van049

    van049

    Fabulous image you have captured Peter!! I do hope you are
    okay after crashing into that tree on your way back down!!!xx

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    Maria Moro

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  • GeorgieH

    GeorgieH

    Gorgeous, it’s like a material gerbera.

  • Sharon Mau

    Sharon Mau

    I just popped in to view this lovely image again and to say ….... Aloha Peter!

  • peterworks here replied

    Aloha Sharon!

  • Melinda Gaal

    Melinda Gaal

    Great image….love the colour and pattern of it.

  • Hannah Fenton-Williams

    Hannah Fenton-...

    Very cool shot! I dont think i could ever go up in one though.

  • DonnaMoore

    DonnaMoore

    How beautiful and fun it must have been Peter…Except for the crash into the tree. I’m not brave enough to go up in one, to open for me. I do want to try a blimp.

  • Steven  Sandner

    Steven Sandner

    Awesome shot! I saw these north-east of Melbourne early last sunday morning!

  • Scott  d'Almeida

    Scott d'Almeida

    excellent

  • LisaR

    LisaR

    Great capture! They are such a great subject to photograph!

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    Maria Moro

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    Terrific challenge – I’m in!

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