Pic It Up: The 2025 Balloon Fiesta

Published October 9th, 2025 at 10:18 am, Last Updated October 9th, 2025 at 10:22 am

Last weekend, staff photographer Roberto E. Rosales visited this year’s Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (along with roughly 800,000 other balloonatics). He snapped some glorious pictures of the balloons, the pilots and the fans from all over the world that have assembled here in Albuquerque this year. Here’s a sample of what he saw: