# Wonderfully beautiful photograph. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413 "2006-03-22T08:42:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/1 "2006-03-22T08:42:34Z")
[Marvel in awe, then realize how cool your home isn’t.](http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=281896) > [@](#): > > This was a misty morning during the 2005 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta and I took the shot from a hill in Rio Rancho, NM where I live as the balloons drifted northward along the Rio Grande River in the bosque (river forest). Some photoshopping was done, but the result is quite striking. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/2 "2006-03-22T09:23:37Z")
Striking indeed. That captures the feeling of a misty morning very evocatively. I like! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/3 "2006-03-22T10:14:19Z")
Very nice! ---
**Author:** ![mailman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mailman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mailman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/4 "2006-03-22T10:48:06Z")
It really reminds me of the streetlight outside my window–very evocative. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/5 "2006-03-22T12:37:37Z")
Very cool…the balloons are higher than the bird. It doesn’t even look real. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/6 "2006-03-22T12:50:50Z")
Is the black blob in the foregound the bird? Why are so many balloons apparently crashing into the trees? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/7 "2006-03-22T14:06:09Z")
That’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/8 "2006-03-22T14:55:49Z")
Hey **Mr Bus Guy** , check it out, I found your [picture](http://www.guzer.com/pictures/smart_kid.jpg) from when you were little! 😃 – Wow, that balloon photograph is stunning. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/9 "2006-03-22T15:00:36Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Marvel in awe, then realize how cool your home isn’t. You have too many trees near your home. I hate trees! ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/10 "2006-03-22T19:19:42Z")
I grew up in ABQ and one thing I really miss is the Ballon Fiesta\*. Ballons all over th place. The mass ascentions are something that I really miss. Five or six hundred ballons launching at once. Simply amazing. That is a great picutre, reminds me a lot of growing up. Every year when the fiesta started I’d walk to school and see similar scenes, though not so many trees as I didn’t live in the valley. Slee \*For [Don’t Ask](http://www.aibf.org/). ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/11 "2006-03-22T21:38:22Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > You have too many trees near your home. I hate trees! In point of fact, there are very few trees near my home. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/12 "2006-03-22T22:35:39Z")
Looks almost more like a painting than a photo. Purty. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/13 "2006-03-23T00:14:20Z")
OK, can someone answer something I have been wondering for a while? At these balloon fests, with hundreds of balloons, how do they keep them from crashing into each other? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/14 "2006-03-23T00:36:03Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > Is the black blob in the foregound the bird? Pterodactyl. ---
**Author:** ![Dervish\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dervish\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervish_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/15 "2006-03-23T07:35:02Z")
Yes, it’s lovely. Now I’m homesick. \*\*bouv \*\* they stake all the balloons a fair distance apart, and they are in assigned sections that rise one at a time. Albuquerque, at least, has a “box” effect that blows all the balloons in a rectangle pattern around the city. When they get bored or whatever, they pick an empty field or parking lot and set down. That was always the coolest part for me as a kid; I loved the mass ascensions, but you never knew when you’d be driving down the road an have a balloon set down right beside you. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/16 "2006-03-23T09:42:08Z")
I hope that heaven is half as nice. That is really breath-taking! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/17 "2006-03-23T15:57:30Z")
I have that picture now as my backdrop. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/18 "2006-03-23T17:42:20Z")
> [@Dervish Jones](#): > > That was always the coolest part for me as a kid; I loved the mass ascensions, but you never knew when you’d be driving down the road an have a balloon set down right beside you. And if they land on your property, you get champagne (OJ for the kiddies). ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/19 "2006-03-23T18:29:48Z")
OK, I want witnesses on this for the next time New Mexico is characterized as hot flat dry & treeless! Nice pic, **Derleth**! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413/20 "2006-03-24T04:49:01Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > OK, I want witnesses on this for the next time New Mexico is characterized as hot flat dry & treeless! I’ve never been to New Mexico, but I have been to Arizona. Driving from Tuscon to Flagstaff via Phoenix is a real revelation. (You go from cacti-and-sage desert to pine tree mountains in the space of less than a full day’s drive.) There isn’t that much variability in Montana, even if the desert was greener than the high plains back home. > [@](#): > > Nice pic, **Derleth**! No problem. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfully-beautiful-photograph/349413.md?page=2)