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Balloons Over the Valley of Kings by Richard Stauber

February 2025 - Balloons Over the Valley of Kings

February 2025 - Richard Stauber

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About the Image(s)

This submission is a composite and illustrates an interesting use of drone photography.

Locations: Valley of Kings in Luxor Egypt and our summer home in Branchville, NJ.

The Image: We traveled to Egypt last September- this country is not drone friendly, a fact I knew before leaving home (and the drone stayed home) - where I had an opportunity to ride in a hot air balloon. The image was shot with a DSLR (Sony A-7iii) at about 7 AM facing away from the rising sun.

During our trip, almost every day was cloudless, and in processing the image I wanted to have a more interesting sky. The drone shot was looking west at sunrise and was made specifically for this image as a sky replacement.


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Pete Scifres   Pete Scifres
I think the crop is a little tight especially the green balloon on the left.

Since you removed at least one of the balloons there's some other stuff that could have been pulled out as well. Especially along the road.

At the risk of getting crazy really cropping in and going vertical might have been interesting, see pix   Posted: 02/05/2025 04:53:17
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