Hot Air Balloon Festival - 2005

The Adirondack Balloon Festival is a yearly event here, and one of the few occasions for which I *willingly* get up at 4am!

Here's a shot of the airport at 6am as the sun started coming up:





testing the flame:





inflating:








and then they started standing up. I liked the way these overlapped each other.








here's a shot of the first group up: