Hotairballooning is unsurprisingly big business amid this lunarscape oddity in central Turkey, with the dawn sky a feast of colourful balloons hovering above the landscape.
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (October 6-14): What started in 1972 as a local radio station promotion to round up the most hotair balloons in one place has become the world's largest ballooning gathering and, boast organizers, the most photographed event anywhere.
The British Association of Balloon Operators (BABO) - a UK trade body for commercial hotair balloon operators - said it had received an "unacceptably high" number of complaints about Go Ballooning.