Hot air balloons over a valley at dawn – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Hot air balloons over a valley at dawn. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Hot air balloons over a valley at dawn
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Pale balloons drift above a valley in the first light of morning, their bright envelopes set against a cool, misty floor of land below. Ballooning in America grew from the late eighteenth century, when the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air flights in France inspired American crowds to watch and, later, to take to the sky themselves. Dawn was the traditional launch time because the air is typically calmer then, and photographers and painters were drawn to the way early light softens the scene and lifts the colors of the envelopes. The picture is worth noticing for that quiet moment before the day's wind picks up.
| Original scan | 1,594 × 2,845 px · prints to 5 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2301577196_53f2f861c6_oHot air balloons Dale Gillard |
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