Arkansas Valley Balloon Festival, Rocky Ford, Colorado, November 3-4, 2007
Camera: Canon ESO 10D, Canon 70~200 f/2.8L IS lens.

Last weekend I drove to southern Colorado for another hot air balloon festival at Rocky Ford near La Junta. After shooting the balloon launch I was joining chase vehicles to follow the balloons. The picture above was shot on the second morning of the event a few miles northeast of Rocky Ford where balloon pilots were looking for a place to land.

I combined that trip with some paddling on the John Martin Reservoir which turned to be quite challenging, but that's another story.

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