Continuing with images from the trip, this one was also fairly early in the route. During our previous big road trip from Dubai to Romania in 2015, one of the places we stayed at and loved was Cappadocia – in fact, I asked Ana to marry me during our stop there. At the time, we didn’t camp there, but this time I really wanted to find a place to camp and wake up early to photograph the tens of hot air balloons that are famously hovering above the valleys most mornings.
Well, I couldn’t have asked for a better spot – I woke up at 4am surrounded by the noise of balloons being filled up with hot air. I have lots of photos I like from that morning, but I think my favourite one is the one above as the first thing that popped into my mind when I made it was “people will think this one is AI generated” as the balloons look like they were purposely arranged into this shape. Well, I can tell you, this is pretty much straight out of the camera – I only slightly corrected the shadows and highlights.
