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The Balloons Over Bend event is very, very photogenic. You have to be a lousy photographer to not get a decent shot. The challenge is to get a shot not everybody else got.

So we went airborne (thanks to the Source) and we shot all possible angles day and night. All said and done, I like this photo best, which I took on the first day. Probably one of my first exposures there.

While Mark Trujillo was inflating his balloon and the sun was rising behind him, I captured the moment by shooting into the huge cavern of the balloon while Mark was closing the top.

I used a wide-angle lens to capture this.

See more of Christian Heeb’s Balloons Over Bend photos right here.

This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.

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The Traveling Camera: Balloons Over Bend

by Christian Heeb, The Source - Bend, Oregon
July 26, 2011

<h1>The Traveling Camera: Balloons Over Bend</h1> <p class="byline">by Christian Heeb, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />July 26, 2011</p> <p> The <a href="http://www.balloonsoverbend.com/" target="_blank">Balloons Over Bend</a> event is very, very photogenic. You have to be a lousy photographer to not get a decent shot. The challenge is to get a shot not everybody else got.</p> <p>So we went airborne (thanks to <em>the Source</em>) and we shot all possible angles day and night. All said and done, I like this photo best, which I took on the first day. Probably one of my first exposures there.</p> <p>While Mark Trujillo was inflating his balloon and the sun was rising behind him, I captured the moment by shooting into the huge cavern of the balloon while Mark was closing the top.</p> <p>I used a wide-angle lens to capture this.</p> <p><em>See more of Christian Heeb's <a href="http://ccophotostock.photoshelter.com/gallery/BALLOONS-OVER-BEND-2011/G0000izzJZe2.Sho/ " target="_blank">Balloons Over Bend photos right here.</a></em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-traveling-camera-balloons-over-bend-2138763/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=14502&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-traveling-camera-balloons-over-bend-2138763/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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