Art is easy. Photography is easy. What is hard is getting up early enough to see the art. Photographers have long known that the best, most fun and interesting light is during the “golden hours,” around sunrise and around sunset. Fine. So we know the secret. What’s hard about that? EASY! The hard part is getting up early enough to be outside where you want to be, say at a balloon festival in Erie Colorado, when the sun comes up. In the summer, that is EARLY, say 5:00 AM. In the winter it is later, but it is COLD! In the words of Butch Cassidy, “It’s a small price to pay for beauty!”

“Houston, we’ve got liftoff! Trusting their future, or as was once said, “casting their fate to the wind,” a pilot and crew slowly ascends. Their flight is powered totally by hot air. While I don’t always like lawyer jokes, I have been told during my career that I could launch a balloon myself. I believe that with my free “film” and free “developing” I will make another visit to neighboring Erie for Sunday at 5:00 AM for another morning of photo ops! Launch could be as early as 6:00 AM

I understand why many would question this final picture choice. My eye keeps coming back to it. Flame comes out from the center of the coils. This is Part II Balloons, and I hope and plan to be there again Sunday morning (early, you guessed it) for Part III.

Lenny Lensworth Frieling

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• Multi-published and syndicated blogger and author.
• University lectures at University. of Colorado, Boulder, Denver University Law School, Univ. of New Mexico, Las Vegas NM, and many other schools at all levels. Numerous lectures for the NORML Legal Committee
• Former Judge
• Media work, including episodes of Fox’s Power of Attorney, well in excess of many hundreds media interviews, appearances, articles, and podcasts, including co-hosting Time For Hemp for two years.
• Life Member, NORML Legal Committee, Distinguished Counsel Circle.
• Photographer of the Year, AboutBoulder 2023
• First Chair and Originator of the Colorado Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Committee, a National first.
• Previous Chair, Boulder Criminal Defense Bar (8 years)
• Twice chair Executive Counsel, Colorado Bar Association Criminal Law Section
• Life Member, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
• Board Member Emeritus, Colorado NORML, and prior chair during legalization, as well as pre and post legalization
• Chair, Colorado NORML, 7 years including during the successful effort to legalize recreational pot in Colorado
• Senior Counsel Emeritus to the Boulder Law firm Dolan + Zimmerman LLP : (720)-610-0951
• Board member, Author, and Editor for Criminal Law Articles for the Colorado Lawyer, primary publication of the Colorado Bar Assoc. 7 Years, in addition to having 2 Colorado Lawyer cover photos, and numerous articles for the Colorado Lawyer monthly publication.
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