Overview
Commissioned as a slow-travel feature, we spent five days in the valleys — cave hotels, sunrise viewpoints, artisan workshops — documenting the region beyond the postcard: the pilots, the bakers, the dawn crews who inflate a hundred balloons before most travellers wake.
The challenge
Balloon flights cancel on wind, viewpoints crowd by 5 a.m., and the famous light lasts twenty minutes. We worked with a local fixer, scouted three backup ridges, and shot the human story on no-fly days so no dawn went to waste.
Approach & solution
Wide environmental frames carry the landscape; tight portraits carry the people. The diary ran as a ten-page feature with a fold-out panorama, and the sunrise balloon frame became our second best-selling print.
- Ten-page feature with fold-out panorama.
- 150-frame captioned kit for web and social.
- Vertical cut-downs for reels and stories.
Take the sunrise home
The balloon-season frame is available as a fine-art print.
