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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paul romanowski
nice shot, giant fan of sort….......
Bjana Hoey
wow thats awesome….love the repetition!!
Lisa Defazio
Very cool. something i am yet to do! Brilliant image.
Leisa Hennessy
now thats cool mate … a unique angle :)
imageworld
tried hot air balloninig awesome feeling
Carmen Mandel-...
Enthralling geometric pattern
Robert Elliott
great perspective, a huge red bubble
Antoine Dagobert
Beautiful pattern and colors
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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
Perfectly framed and very clever.
Great detail
Christophe Testi
Very nice abstract.
H M Bascom
It’s very red! Cool textures.
Lisa Kenny
Very cool shot Peter
Michael Bermi...
Holy cow…this is spectacular…
FlickerLightSt...
What a rich color and excellent perspective! Love it! ~S
chriso
Nice shot! Great colour and detail. Must have been an amazing trip.
MuscularTeeth
awesome boss.
janik
Superb.
Brett Yoncak
Really cool picture. Great job
Cheri Perry
What an outstanding capture. Love the abstract look to this.
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
Fantastic capture!!
Stephen Forbes
This is great, love it and would love to do it…
Paul Hamilton ...
Turned out wonderfully Peter
checkma8
gorgeous image
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!!!
VinA
beautiful colour and textur!
Alan Findlater
brilliant colour and shadow
jab03
wonderful wd:D
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
Love this so much..
Graeme Pettit ...
Reminded me of a flower too. Nice alternative study of the subject.
Basia McAuley
Awesome!! I love the rich colour, the great clarity and the abstract quality to this image.
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
beautiful simplicity, well done peter.
Cathy Middleton
Almost a mandala. Beautiful work Peter. Well done.
Skip Hunt
splendiferous!!! I’ve been on hot air balloon rides and never thought of this angle. Damn you! :-)
earthangel
Interesting shot, I’ve not been in a balloon yet, but have helped set them up and pack them away- spectacular!
ajreece
Such an intriguing perspective!! Very interesting shot!
Jeremy Harrington
awesome abstract, rich colour and lines work well
Faizan Qureshi
I love this image Peter. The perspective makes this shot really very interesting. :-)
Bruce Watson
Nice shot. Kind of mandala-like.
ed wong
great capture
Paul Vanzella
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
Inspiring! I’ve been wanting to and now!!! Love the red, the X’s and the radiation from the centre. Thanks!
D. AMO
I’d add RED to your tag if I could!
Jason Adams
Very nice shot Peter
Katja Klages
Great graphic image… love the colour :-)
Janine Hewlett
great shot!!
Lucindawind
fantastic view !
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
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
cool capture
ozczecho
Sweet…cool point of view….
Bevsimages
OOohhh great image I love red…I’d be a bit scared but bet it was great x ;)
Michael Kienhuis
just a super image. Love this. Regards M:>
MaddyPaddy
Wow Beautiful capture Peter! :)
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!
peter
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Thanks Glenna – they’re quite noisy things – which surprised me.
pattihaskins
Wonderful color,rather like those wonderful things you saw in those old glass Kaleidoscopes and then is was gone,what imagination!
Tracey McKeown
Love the colour!!
Martina Thompson
Stunning!!!
PJ Ryan
how gorgeous .. i love the ambiguity of this image.
Di Dowsett
wow! great shot…love it!
xx
Kenny Gulley Jr.
perfect
KSkinner
Yes that’s RED! Great comp!
Steve Chapple
Now that is clever, great perspective!
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
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
I know that feeling of floating on air in a balloon. So peaceful.
Beautiful vibrant colour in this shot.
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
Nice shot! I love the composition and the vibrancy of the colour!!
roybarry
Perfect framing Peter. Liking this shot, rather a lot.
claudiaveja
that’s cool
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
What vibrant colors and wonderful lines. It pays to look up sometimes! lol! Beautiful image!
mss3
great pic, wonderful color…almost thought it to be the petals of a daisy!
Mohsen Bayramn...
SYMBOLIC and so CREATIVE!
almost abstract…
Adam Bykowski
Cool shot. Like all the shadows and textures. Nice one.
BLYTHART
Not so much a Redbubble as a Redballoon :) Great design Peter.
allisonberryart
AWESOME MANDALA!!! won’t you join my mandala group and post please?
Dave Corn
Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…LOVE IT!! Love those Hot Air Balloons!
Kudos To Ya!
Matthew Scotland
intense hypnotic image
John Beamish
Really really red, great shot.
Ghelly
I love the composition here, vibrant color, I love it
dominiquelandau
Amazing shot..:0 Wonderful!
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
they are amazing mechanisms that is for sure – great shot!
Cheryl DeLong
Cool shot, went up in a blimp once and they are kinda noisy too.
Meeli Sonn
Great patterns
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)
peter
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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
Brilliant image….
van049
Fabulous image you have captured Peter!! I do hope you are
okay after crashing into that tree on your way back down!!!xx
Maria Moro
Please consider one of your artworks for challenge Triangular Shapes
Georgie Hart
Gorgeous, it’s like a material gerbera.
Sharon Mau
I just popped in to view this lovely image again and to say ….... Aloha Peter!
peter
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Aloha Sharon!
Melinda Gaal
Great image….love the colour and pattern of it.
Hannah Fenton-...
Very cool shot! I dont think i could ever go up in one though.
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
Awesome shot! I saw these north-east of Melbourne early last sunday morning!
Scott d'Almeida
excellent
LisaR
Great capture! They are such a great subject to photograph!
ccwri
its just WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Maria Moro
peter
replied
Terrific challenge – I’m in!
Maria Moro
Please consider one of your artworks for our Patterns on HOT AIR BALLOONS challenge
vampvamp
you got a great shot here…. :)
Steven Sandner 17 days ago
Excellent shot!
OsvaldoB 5 days ago
Nice shot. Very unusual angle
Steve Leadbeater 4 days ago
WOW – how did you get that view?