Canberra runs an annual Hot Air Balloon Festival. In the years after COVID it has been a much smaller affair, but earlier Festivals had 20 or 30 balloons inflating and flying on a good day. It is a very early start, as they usually start inflating around 6:30am (or before), but it is nevertheless extremely popular and you normally have a struggle to get good photographs from the ground.
I have attended the Festival at least 10 times, and I have photographs to prove it. Most of them don’t pass my current quality standards, however, and won’t make it onto this page.
2023
![](https://i0.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC04998.web_.logo_-683x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
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2022
![Balloon in flight.](https://i1.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.01-md-684x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Balloon in flight.](https://i1.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.02-md-1024x897.jpg?ssl=1)
![Balloon in flight.](https://i2.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.03-md-767x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Sloth shaped balloon in flight.](https://i0.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.04-md-641x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Balloon in flight](https://i2.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.05-md-808x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Sunrise over trees](https://i2.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.06-md-1024x553.jpg?ssl=1)
![Balloons on the skyline](https://i0.wp.com/watersprite.online/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRBF22.07-md-1024x514.jpg?ssl=1)
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