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I, along with several other co-workers, had to go out to Philadelphia today for a business meeting. I didn’t bring my camera with me and the meeting ran longer then I had planned for. Knowing I would arrive home after dark, I thought I could take a photo of one of the famed Philadelphia pretzels we had carried out with us. But since the day had run long and we were hungry, we eat all the pretzels, calling it dinner. Resulting in me missing my POD photo op!

So I will share one more photograph from the weekend’s balloon festival. I have been playing around with HDR. I have much to learn about it but I did like the effect it gave this shot.

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I had been wanting to take Phriend’s wide angle lens on a play date and what better place then the Balloon Fest.
This past weekend, we swapped her wide for my marco.

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Although I have been to the Hot Air Balloon Festival several time before, I still find it to be one awesome sight. The Festival runs for 3 days and the balloon ascension takes places 5 times over the course of these days. They rise to the skies at 6:30 am and 6:30 pm. We watched them twice while there. It is a sight I could never tire of.

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Over night stay at the hotel ~ $100, tickets to Balloon Fest ~ $60, watching the mass ascension of over 125 hot air balloons ~ priceless.