Pictures/Photographs of the Balloon Festival at Chateau d’ Oex
Photographs of the 2010 International Balloon Festival in Chateau d’ Oex, Switzerland
Regulars of this blog will know that I was in Switzerland recently to attend the opening of the International Festival de Ballons at Chateau d’ Oex. A quite incredible spectacle I managed to get a few photographs before having to catch the train back to Geneva. I will post some more photographs later, it was interesting to watch the build up to the balloons taking flight and obviously once they were up in the skies above the mountains…well, what can you say?
I have to congratulate the organisers and partcipants for what I managed to see, the weather on the opening day was superb and the aerial acrobatics of the planes and paragliders were quite spectacular.
For more photographs from the festival please click here
Balloon Festival at Chateau d’ Oex
It was great to see the balloons being prepared, I managed to get a shot of this guy ‘firing’ his balloon up under the watchful eye of a press photographer….
Festival of Balloons
Here’s the scene from the take off venue, conviniently situated right opposite my bedroom window!…..
The Chateau d’ Oex Balloon Festival
The Swiss Prime Beef Balloon
Miles,
I can almost smell the money from here! Pass the Lindt…
Cid
p.s. you should have been their official photographer. I’ll be there next year in my patchwork, indigo dyed vintage mosquito net balloon
February 7, 2010 @ 10:24 am
Miles,
Makes for impressive colour photography. The people in the centre of the third photo reminded me for some reason of a Lowry painting.
Anne
February 7, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
Cid/Anne,
I’ll stick a couple more on next week…don’t want to turn into one of those slide show bores
Miles
February 7, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
Miles,
I am gasping for air–these photos take my breath away. Your investments in time and money for your photography have been well-spent.
Annie
February 8, 2010 @ 6:03 pm
Hi Miles:
Lovely shots! I like the take-off venue best because of the balloons at different heights and some still deflated laying on the ground. Its the impermanence of the beauty and the flight that makes it interesting as a sport. Also like the guy in the ultralight soaring around above them all. That, by comparison is noisy but a fast lot of fun!
More snow falling here - another foot to add to the almost 3 feet we got Friday/Saturday.
February 9, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
Annie,
Thanks! I don’t regret a penny of it
Miles
February 10, 2010 @ 8:29 am
Laura,
Sympathy goes out to you with the snow
Glad you like the shots, even if they are full of snow!!!!
Miles
February 10, 2010 @ 8:30 am