[Leica] Hot Air Balloons

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Nice - this is my pick

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/Flare+3.jpg.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> 
wrote:

> Every year my little town here outside Raleigh hosts a hot-air balloon
> festival. We went to the evening part of one day?s festivities to see the
> evening ascent and the flaring event, where the pilots of balloons on the
> ground flash their burners to light up the envelopes in a nice light show.
> It occurred to me that these flashes should be rich in infrared, so I took
> the M8 as well as the M240.
>
> One thing I discovered is that IR images made without sunlight are not
> very interesting unless there?s a strong IR source in the frame.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/ <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/>
>
> C&C appreciated.
>
> ?howard
>
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