Quechee, Vermont 6/21/25 – perfect weather for morning launches! These are in chronological order. The flying around the Quechee Gorge Bridge was really impressive.
Stills are below the video.
Quechee Hot Air Balloon Festival 2025 – Day 2
Flights of Fancy by William Daugherty
Wonderful pictures, as usual. I remember the day I got up at 5 to race over from Meriden to catch the ballon’s with my
SLR, then race back to Meriden’s Bird Club breakfast in the woods before getting up to church for choir warm up.
Geez Betty, that makes me tired just reading it! I spent more time processing all this morning’s footage than I did shooting it. I took about 1k images. I also have a few minutes of video that I’ll turn into something eventually.
Amazing photos! Looking forward to an all-balloon 2026 calendar 😉
Corinne, that’s a novel suggestion! We already have four themes planned: traditional, Fall, Sunrise/Sunset, and Abstract. Balloons sounds really interesting however. Thank you!