VERY cool and quite beautiful time lapse of the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival.

[A HERETIC I AM]

Because sometimes GD needs to lighten up a bit.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Very cool

I've visited Albuquerque many times because my ex was from South Valley there. But I only stumbled into the Balloon Fest once, while passing through on a 2-month cross-country drive. Unfortunately, that year it was raining and they had an accident when a balloon struck power lines and all the balloons were grounded.

But nothing beats the fry bread at the state fair there!

[Sherman A1]

2. Superb!

Thanks for sharing.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Wow.

Many years ago I lived just south of the fairgrounds where the balloons used to launch from. Quite a few went right over the house, and we were always surprised at the noise. Beautiful, though. There's still something simply majestic about the way they catch the air currents.

[Helen Borg]

4. Did you see the double pyramid balloon around 00:25 (bottom left)?

Pretty cool....

[Warren DeMontague]

5. How awesome!

Some of those balloons are nuts, too.

[pinboy3niner]

6. No kidding!

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Yeah

I saw that coming.

[pinboy3niner]

8. At least they finally designed a balloon for us

[bigwillq]

9. Incredible.

K and R

[djean111]

10. Beautiful, thank you!

Many years ago, I was very early for a balloon festival near Brandon, Fl (don't think they do that any more), got there very early. No crowds, no noise, just one balloon ascending. The sound was like how I imagine dragon's breath would sound. If there were dragons.

[IDemo]

11. The 'Spirit of Boise' balloon festival begins today

This has been another favorite of balloonists for many years:

http://spiritofboise.com/

[cwydro]

12. Beautiful!

I can't seem to copy the link darn it!

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. If you click play on the video in the OP.....

the "YouTube" logo appears in the bottom right.

Click that and the video will open in a new window on YouTube.

From there you can copy the URL

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. those balloons are beautiful

[Gloria]

15. We used to have our own festival down here, but money dried up...however,

I still see an individual balloon or two when I look over my back wall sometimes...they drift along so beautifully.

I've never been up to ABQ for the festival...but I hear "the glow" is great....

[Gloria]

16. A bit off topic, but still in the sky...the flyover of Shuttle Endeavour over

LC...simply haunting, the background soundtrack at the very end gives me the chills to this day...

It happened Sept 20, 2012, on the way to its final destination in CA. It flew over White Sands and NASA, where so much work on the shuttle program was done...

I was standing on the dam as it passed right over me...It brings tears to my eyes...