Mass Ascension

At 4:45 AM we went to Dawn Patrol at Albuquerque’s 2006 Balloon Fiesta. It takes place about 5 minutes from my house, and is one of my favorite annual events in Albuquerque.

You literally can’t take a bad picture there (unless you forget to remove your lens cap). There were approximately 200 balloons in this morning’s Mass Ascension. They all launch side by side, and spectators are given free reign of the take off field. So you can pretty much walk right up to them, between them and even under them as they launch.

I’ve made a desktop from one of my favorite pics. If you like it, please feel free to download it (no “Mark Bixby” logos or anything).

SIZES:
2560x1600 (<-- Now in "Veerle" size)
1920x1200 (<-- 24" iMacs)
1690x1050
1600x1200
1440x900 (<-- MacBook Pro too!)
1280x1024
1280x800 (<-- DarthBook!)
1024x768

You can see a bunch more in my flickr.com photo stream.

Okay, back to work!

This is a really great shot Love the colors.

Posted 10-11-2006, 11:51 am, by Veerle Pieters

Thanks Veerle, I am a Color Lover™ too. Hope that one's big enough for that ginormous monitor of yours. :D

Posted 10-11-2006, 03:43 pm, by Mark Bixby

Where are the MacBook/Pro sizes?

Posted 10-11-2006, 06:24 pm, by Greg

With my obsession with orange, you know this is already on my desktop.

Very sweet.

Posted 10-11-2006, 06:35 pm, by Ryan Irelan

Thanks Ryan!

Greg - Man, everybody's got a new computer except me!?!? There you go!

Posted 10-11-2006, 06:36 pm, by Mark Bixby

Hey thanks Mark! The desktop is looking great on my huuuuuge screen haha

Posted 10-12-2006, 11:17 am, by Veerle Pieters

Holy bloated pumpkin tops...that's awesome! Thanks Mark.

Posted 10-13-2006, 06:17 am, by Blake

Now on the DarthBook™, too. Rock.

Posted 10-21-2006, 11:40 am, by Ryan

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