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This is famous Lake Bled in Slovenia, taken on the 31st of December in 2022. I planned to take a picture of sunrise over the lake and was greeted by a thick wall of fog when I parked my car. I took a short hike up to a viewpoint and had to wait some time for the fog to settle so that the church on the island in the middle of the lake actually became visible. Everything that is covered in fog below is actually the lake. When I was packing up my stuff to leave, to my amazement a hot air balloon took to the sky. I waited a little longer for the balloon to mostly align with the church and then took the shot on my Sony A7R IV with a Tampon 20-40 lens.

Edits: the obvious one: I aligned the balloon a little more with the church (it was off by a few pixels), cloned out some trees in the bottom right corner of the image. Other than that just basic Lightroom edits with some colour corrections and grading as well as some dodging & burning using masks.

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