For the first picture, I asked a local golf course if they would let ten balloons take off from the course so that I would have the lake, the balloons, Fall color and in some of the frames boats at anchor. For the second, I enlisted the aid of the local gliding club at Harris Hill . We mounted a very lightweight camera to the tie-down point on the wing and adjusted the camera's meter and the pilot of the glider in the foreground had the trip for the camera and the others flew around him in a mobile-like formation. I was
in a small plane about two thousand feet above and called the camera pilot of the foreground plane and told him when to trip the camera. We managed two flights and no one got killed! All aviation photography is fraught with peril but aviators love a challenge. I wire my cameras to hard points in helicopters but I have found two Hassleblad lenses rolling around the back floor of a helicopter. We left them at the airport. As most of my aerial jaunts are over people, I try to keep my gear attached.
