Now I wonder, “What was this photographer thinking?”, when the picture was taken; I don’t mean that in the crazy way, like “That photographer was crazy for taking this picture”, I mean in the, “What was he pondering” way.  How did he decide to frame the ballon this way; oh, and why are the balloons so near basketball hoops anyway?  Don’t they usually launch and fly over wide open spaces?

Caption: A hot air balloon is framed within a basketball hoop adjacent to the Garrison Middle School athletic fields in Walla Walla, Wash. where Walla Walla’s 38th Annual Balloon Stampede launched the “Hare and Hound” race early Saturday, May 12, 2012. The “Hare and Hound” competition involves a lead balloon being given a head start and launches first while all the other balloons become the hounds and hunt it down. (AP Photo/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Jeff Horner)