Hot air balloon casting a long shadow over shrubland – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Hot air balloon casting a long shadow over shrubland in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hot air balloon casting a long shadow over shrubland
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A hot air balloon hangs low over open shrubland, and its shadow stretches long across the scrub below, the kind of late-light effect that makes the craft look both enormous and weightless. Pictures of balloons on the ground-level landscape were a favorite of the early twentieth century, when ballooning moved from military observation and exhibition flights into a popular spectacle that drew crowds to fields and fairgrounds. Images like this one tend to emphasize scale and the contrast between a fragile envelope of fabric and the solid, unbroken land beneath it.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,249 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2509113044_dd635dc3be_b Long Shadows kellyb |
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