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John Hickenlooper is the mayor Of Denver, Colorado and the Democratic candidate for governor of Colorado. His campaign contacted me a while back to acquire rights to photograph I had taken of him at the last Democratic National Convention. I was pleased to see that they are using my photo for both his main Bio page and for his Facebook photo.
Campaign Bio Page
Facebok Page
My Original
John Hickenlooper’s campaign contacted me to acquire rights to a photo I took last year at the DNC.
‘goes to show you never know when or where a photo might be used.
Invesco Feild is the home to the Denver Broncos, named after one of the largest investment companies in the world and, come next Thursday, will be host to some 70,000 Obama fans supporters as he accepts his parties’ nomination for President of the United States.
This morning I attended a media event at the stadium that, with welcome speeches from Colorado Sentor Ken Salazar, Colorado Governor John Ritter and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper opened Invesco Field to the media to shoot B-roll and have a look around before the Secret Service closes it down till Thursday.
The event was announced by email at 8:00 this morning and was decidely small and low key.
Invesco Field in Denver was opened to the media today in anticipation of Barack Obama accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States here this Thursday.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper speaks at Invesco Field where Barack Obama will acceppt the Democratic Party's nomination for President this Thursday.
The Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival started this morning. Dawn found dozens of hot air balloons strewn across the grass at Catchfield State Park just outside of Denver. I had awoken at the hitherto unknown hour of 4am to make the trek there and take some photos.
Dawn at the Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival
No soon than I arrived I met the very affable Scott Spencer who along with his wife Laurie have, perhaps, the coolest job in the world: hot air balloon pilots.
The Spencer were incredibly gracious, letting me take frames inside the balloon and in the basket. Scott also loaned me his 10mm fish-eye lens. I was starting to think he was pretty alright when the pièce de résistance came. Scott caught my eye and said “You want to go up”? Silly question!
Though just a tethered up and down it was fantastic…peacefully floating on air with the occasional burst of the burners for excitement.
Pilot Kevin Knapp fills his balloon.
A pilot readies his balloon as shot from the inside.
Balloon
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The DNC starts in 3 days and the protests and meetings start tomorrow. As exciting as all that will be I would trade it and a lot more for a long hot air balloon ride.
