Reader photos: Hot air balloon fiesta and splash of art

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On a chilly morning in Albuquerque, Roberto Rosales used a wide-angle lens to capture the spirit of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in one photo.

Roaming the streets of Venice, Calif., Chris Leatherwood took this photo of vibrant graffiti sprayed across an abandoned house.

Robin Barnes captures the calm after the storm in front of the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

With stormy weather on its way last May, Armando Flores Ledesmaset up his camera gear to catch lightning strikes in Buenos Aires.

In Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Omi Prince stopped throughout the town to document the city. "The sun was just coming up, and the sky was wild," Prince says.

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