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Chrome grille with blue flame against colourful blurred background – Vintage Print

Chrome grille with blue flame against colourful blurred background — historic image
Chrome grille with blue flame against colourful blurred background. Historic image from the Ballooning collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A window into the past: Chrome grille with blue flame against colourful blurred background, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Chrome grille with blue flame against colourful blurred background

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A metal grille, polished to a mirror shine, holds a steady blue flame against a soft wash of color behind it. The pairing of chrome and fire suggests a burner, the kind that heats the air inside a hot-air balloon envelope. Propane burners of this type run hot and blue when the mixture is well balanced, which is why a flame like this reads as controlled rather than wild. The blurred background keeps attention on the hardware, and the image ties to the ballooning theme on this board through its focus on the equipment that makes flight possible.

Original scan2,000 × 3,008 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi
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