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Timelapse: Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta [HD video]
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Posted on 11/18/2013 8:36:26 PM PST by servo1969

You've never seen hot air balloons like this before!
A couple of weeks ago, Albuquerque, New Mexico held its 42nd annual International Balloon Fiesta.
It's a 9-day event where over 700 balloons see liftoff.
It's the largest hot air balloon festival in the entire world and we were on hand to capture the action.

Turn the Volume up, HD on and enjoy this Balloon Fiesta Experience!
*if you are capable of watching in a higher resolution than 1080p choose original as this film was finished in 4k*

Beep.. Beep.. Beep.. The Alarm goes off at 4 am. Time to get ready for a morning full of hot air balloons! Eat a quick breakfast (maybe), grab the batteries off the chargers, cameras and warm clothes and head out for the field! This was my favourite part of shooting the Balloon Fiesta. The early morning anticipation running around the field in the dark trying to find the row of balloons that will go off for dawn patrol! The Balloon's will be all laid out on the ground and just as you start to see some light back-lighting the Sandia's mountains the first group of balloons start to inflate. The best pilots go up before the sunrise to find out what the wind conditions will be like for the day. They take off one after another into the dark of the morning. After that, it gets crazy.

Dawn Ascension is when all of the balloons (excluding dawn patrol) take off one after another starting just before the sunrise. There is so much to see and so many absolutely massive balloon's littering the field. Darth Vader's head fills and lifts above you. You watch it ascend into the glowing morning sky, surrounded by the hundreds of colors and shapes of balloons everywhere. In an impressively overwhelming way, 500+ balloons take off in the span of an hour and a half. When the field finally starts to empty, your heart starts to beat and you jump in your vehicle to chase after the still flying balloons. The balloons land anywhere they can in Albuquerque. From school yards, to back yards to the middle of the street, the whole community unites to pull the balloons from the sky and celebrate those rides of a lifetime.

The equipment used to make this video included:
Canon 6d,
Rokinon 14mm f/2.8
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8
Emotimo TB3 Black

Film + Edit: Joel Schat (http://www.joelschat.com)
Music: Watching the Storm - U137


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: air; albuquerque; balloon; balloons; fiesta; hot; newmexico; nm
Select the Original setting if you have the bandwidth.

Stunningly clear video.

1 posted on 11/18/2013 8:36:26 PM PST by servo1969
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To: servo1969

There is a very short list of things that I am willing to get up at o dark thirty for... Crewing for a hot air balloon is one of them. I don’t regret a single minute’s lost sleep. It isn’t really physically difficult work, nor particularly mentally taxing - but there are do’s and don’ts... All worth the beauty of a glow, a launch, the scramble of a landing/recovery...


2 posted on 11/18/2013 8:46:31 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: servo1969

EXCELLENT! And beautiful.


3 posted on 11/18/2013 9:03:28 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: servo1969

Thanks


4 posted on 11/18/2013 9:06:25 PM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: servo1969

Beautiful...the video does this lovely, desert southwest city and event great justice. Thanks.


5 posted on 11/18/2013 9:13:46 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: servo1969

Outstanding

bttt


6 posted on 11/18/2013 9:14:07 PM PST by amom
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To: servo1969

Thank you! That was lovely.


7 posted on 11/19/2013 2:49:27 AM PST by MomofMarine
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To: servo1969

Pretty amazing. I’ve had a hot air balloon ride and it’s cool.


8 posted on 11/19/2013 3:51:42 AM PST by Baldwin77
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