Thanks to everyone for their comments, votes and faves :)
Not sure why the orange balloon didn't cooperate. PP was rather simple. I did crop the image. Various contrast adjustments were made but didn't need much to get it as bold as it appears. In this case I think it's fun to keep the setup a mystery and keep you folks guessing and pondering ;) Weather was a wish wash, constantly cloudy with patches appearing now and then so I did monitor the sky. I'm just glad to have gotten the chance to shoot outside vs inside. I had 6-8 takes in total. I got a good shot for Day1 but not too pleased with the IQ. One that I liked though but didn't enter was shot against grey skies. Just because I had to try it and wasn't sure if the weather would be good the next day. I dodged out the sky completely which I don't think would be a legal edit so I went out again the next day and got the one I posted in the challenge.
I'd like to reshoot this one again sometime soon.
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A creative idea and so wonderfully done, u surely have some huge patience and and great reflexes to catch this one like this- amazing outcome. Hope to see this at the top