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Totally-Useless.com » Hot Air ballooning http://totally-useless.com What appears to be Totally Useless - often isn't Tue, 22 May 2012 21:19:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hot Air Ballooning – Nijmegen to Emmerich part 3 http://totally-useless.com/489-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmercih-part-3 http://totally-useless.com/489-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmercih-part-3#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:57:10 +0000 Totally http://totally-useless.com/?p=489 Here are a few more captures from the hot air ballooning taken on the 12th of July 2009 on the Nijmegen to Emmercih trip.

This one is from a cemetery taken from above… and better to take it from above than being under the ground already, where all of us will end some day ;)

cemetery from above

Another beautiful mansion taken from above.

a mansion from above

A castle from above.

castle from above

]]> http://totally-useless.com/489-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmercih-part-3/feed 4 Hot Air Ballooning – Nijmegen to Emmerich part 2 http://totally-useless.com/481-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmercih-part-2 http://totally-useless.com/481-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmercih-part-2#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:47:43 +0000 Totally http://totally-useless.com/?p=481 Here ia another capture of Nijmegen from above, and taken by yours truly.

Nijmegen from above - hot air ballooning 2

And here are a few taken by Willem from another balloon getting higher and higher up

one of the balloons going up

Balloon getting higher up

Balloon getting higher and higher up

Balloon is getting up higher and higher

More to follow soon :)

]]> http://totally-useless.com/481-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmercih-part-2/feed 2 Hot Air Ballooning – Nijmegen to Emmerich – part 1 http://totally-useless.com/479-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmerich-part-1 http://totally-useless.com/479-hot-air-ballooning-nijmegen-to-emmerich-part-1#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:31:26 +0000 Totally http://totally-useless.com/?p=479 Let me tell you that the weather last Sunday, the 12th of July started awfully. Rain and wind, and mostly very low dark gray clouds made my heart sink in my shoes when I got up in the morning. Still, I had hope within my heart, that once we get on our way to Nijmegen the weather will change. We arrived in Nijmegen about 16:00 P.M. in the afternoon and the rain had just stopped. It was still gray and clouded however, but I knew that all will change before the flight… And it did! Like in a “called for” miracle, the sun came out of the clouds at around 17:30 P.M., and it became better and better, and the gray clouds dissipated, and the sky became blue with just here and there some nice white clouds :)

Hot Air Ballooning 1

This is a shot by Willem just before the balloon will take off. It was a big hot air balloon with places for up to 24 people, but we were 18 and with the balloon guy a total of 19.

Hot Air Ballooning 2

As you can see I had two cameras with me. The Nikon D60 for taking shots, and the Casio Exilim EX-F1 for the video covering most part of the hot air balloon flight.

Nijmegen from above - hot air ballooning 1

And the last one is one of those shots taken above Nijmegen when we got up in the air. On this capture you can see one of the balloons that got in the air before ours did. I will share more photos and videos from this amazing flight, and if you ever wanted to take up with a hot air balloon – JUST DO IT! You will love it al the way, trust me :)

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