[Leica] Hot Air Balloons

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Every year my little town here outside Raleigh hosts a hot-air balloon festival. We went to the evening part of one day’s festivities to see the evening ascent and the flaring event, where the pilots of balloons on the ground flash their burners to light up the envelopes in a nice light show. It occurred to me that these flashes should be rich in infrared, so I took the M8 as well as the M240.

One thing I discovered is that IR images made without sunlight are not very interesting unless there’s a strong IR source in the frame.

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C&C appreciated.

—howard