Constant Aperture

Date: 19-Mar-2009
Time: 17:45

Take off site: ‘Monumen Alaf Baru’, Precinct 2, Putrajaya
Flying area: Height of not more than 1000ft and 5 km radius from take off site
Landing site: There is ample land in Putrajaya that is suitable for landing

I only manage to take pix from the take off site as there is no definite landing site announce. There are a few special shape balloons, such as the elephant (Belgium), peacock(France?), orange (Belgium), clown (Belgium), and Nescafe cup (New Zealand). Malaysia has one of the most uninteresting balloon, being the yellow and black Zeppelin

Follow up:

“Hello there buddy, time to wake up!”

Looks like the Nescafe is spilling out

It’s pretty hot when you are near the flame, and I almost thought Chee Weng got his lens hood burnt

You wouldn’t wanna stand near that man

There goes all the gas when I just had a “Go Green” presentation in office before coming here

The Nescafe balloon didn’t manage to get off the ground somehow

He seems a little bit short for that

This is my consolation night glow pix. I didn’t manage to join the night glow session on Saturday night

Went there again for the morning session on 21-Mar-2009. The fun fly session is supposed to start at 07.45 but all the balloons are almost ready to fly by the time I got there at 07.40. This time, the balloons took off towards the lake area, which allows me to take some good shots of the balloons with nice background scenery, and also with reflection of the balloons on the lake.

“I’m gonna miss you, Mr. Blue Balloon”

“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a big fat orange (and I don’t mean Garfield)

2 become 1

“Oh man, I’m out of gas…”