{"id":976,"date":"2011-06-28T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2011-07-14T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:11:12","slug":"galena-hot-air-balloon-festival-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/galena-hot-air-balloon-festival-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Galena Hot air balloon festival – 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be honest, I’ve never been this close to a hot air balloon till now. Here are the pictures from my recent trip to the Hot air balloon festival in Galena, Illinois<\/a>. This was an event for Hot air balloons and vintage cars. I reached there real early and spent the whole day in and around Galena. A mile hike at the Wild Cat state park and a brief history tour at Galena. Now i know where the\u00a018th President of the United States\u00a0Ulysses S. Grant<\/em> lived, you guessed it right… Galena,Il.<\/p>\n

I did spend lot of time on capturing and\u00a0experimenting\u00a0with\u00a0time-lapses, will share them on a future post.<\/p>\n

Picture Info<\/span>: Shot with my Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 70-200mm f4, Canon 16-35mm f2.8II. Used Adobe Lightroom 3 for white balance and Lens error correction.<\/p>\n

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This is called “Thunderbay falls” and was\u00a0restricted for public\u00a0access but the moment i saw the falls, i told myself that i’m not leaving Galena till i get a 5star shot of this. How did i get near?.., you don’t wanna know.. hee..hee..<\/p>\n

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Thanks for stopping by.. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\t

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