San Miguel de Allende - Mexico

How to seat a big , floppy balloon race car tire's bead on a rim? 'Simply' use vise grips to clamp, suspend, inflate, soap, weight it with kids or a bucket o' water or what ever. Inflate with compressor, or my favorite, a hand bike tire pump. Of course!

See pix in the comments..the tires go on bikes that float.

Inflating the balloons for the evening glow.

High River, Alberta

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope still has a few tricks up its sleeve in its task of exploring the Universe. For one, it is able to image two adjacent parts of the sky simultaneously. It does this using two different cameras — one camera can be trained on the target object itself, and the other on a nearby patch of sky so that new and potentially interesting regions of the cosmos can be observed at the same time (these latter observations are known as parallel fields).

More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1721a/

Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Inside a balloon at this year's Canberra Balloon Festival

Our pilot, Kevin Wilbur, checks out the balloon as it's being inflated.

Nikon D700, & f/2.8. 6mm Fisheye.

Boy's Own Paper - November 1939

Hot Air Ballooning

Catalonia

Spain

July 2016

Waterford Balloonfest

Waterford Balloonfest. Drove out near Milwaukee to check out balloons this weekend

Inflating a red Hot Air Balloon at the Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival, Chatfield State Park, Littleton, Colorado.

Inflating a hot air baloon.

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"cuentos de colores que suben sobre nuestros hombros,

escritos con soplos de aire e ilusion, amarrados a hilos en nuestras manos..."

Ultimamente los globos están de moda

Esta fotografia la dedico a los PekesAdultos de Flickr! :D

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Leica MP

Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II

Adox CHS 100 II

Rodinal 1+25

6 min 20°C

Scan from negative film

Our ride is inflating before sunrise.

Apex Ballooning! The slow task of inflating... An alternate view is here - www.flickr.com/photos/gary_craig/5127477680/in/set-721576...

Inflating the balloon

www.hotairfun.com/PalmDesert.htm

aspen, colorado

july 1976

hot air ballooning, sardy field

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

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G-SEAT in old Virgin Atlantic Colours inflating at Smethwick Victoria Park, Balloons and Tunes 2015

horse ironton gallery

Canberra Balloon Spectacular, Old Parliament House lawns, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Inflating a hot air balloon at Wisborough Green 2011

The Wisborough Green Balloon Festival is hosted annually by the village in aid of the CHASE Hospice for sick children just near Losely, Surrey.

This shot was taken later at the event as the last 2 balloon lifted off at just before 7pm on the 9th September 2011. Unfortunately these will be the last balloon lifts of the event this year as conditions will be unsuitable on Saturday and Sunday for flying.

Inflating balloons lean left with the wind at the Great Forest Park Balloon Race.

The sinking of a passenger liner doesn't seem an appropriate theme for a kid's slide.

At the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 2011. The raised area on the left is a crew member about to pop out and start working on the balloon. :)

Two "pink" balloons inflate for breast cancer at the 2010 Albuquerque Balloon Festival. This is an animated gif. Select "view all sizes" from the "actions" pop-up menu to see it.

Inflating it.

Inflatable toys dogs (?) at the Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto, Japan.