A Beautiful Collection of Sky Lantern Photos

In such so many ways, people have the heart to believe in wishes coming true through lighting up a lantern and letting it go to the sky. A hopeful release and a wondrous thing to look at in the sky as if they’re stars shining so brightly. They are called Sky Lanterns or in Chinese known as Kongming Lantern originated in a few Asian Cultures. These lanterns are airborne and made out of paper. Like hot air balloons, what makes them rise intro the air is the flame that you light before you let it go. As long as the flame is still there, the lantern soars as high and eventually lands back to the ground once its light is out.

It has been said that Sky Lanterns started a hundred years ago during the time when armies used them as signal devices and had been adopted by folks to use in conveying their wishes to the heavens. So here goes a Collection of 30 Sky Lanterns inspire you always in your quest to good photography and perhaps, have your own wishes come true so click on and make a wish!

2014 Update:

For this new update, we have added more spectacular pictures that you can have a view below this list. Scroll down and check them all out! Come, take a peek, and enjoy!

Sky Lanterns Festival

By: dans
It wouldn’t harm anyone to believe that wishes may come true once you have set a sky lantern free to the sky. It gives hope.
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Sky Lanterns Festival

By: dans
It’s undeniably artistic indeed that our ancestors thought of sky lanterns to either use in signals or started to believe in wishing on it.
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Pingsi Sky Lanterns

By: dans
Wishes give hope to the heart, were we silently share to the skies..isn’t it so exciting!.
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Pingsi Sky Lanterns

By: dans
Sometimes, it’s easy to believe that there’s luck in Kong Ming. It gives a relief and it also alleviates one from stress.
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Sky Lanterns Festival In Pingxi

By: dans
It all depends upon the one who took the photo how they can expound the real beauty of the scene and more so with the subject.
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Playing With a Sky Lantern

By: Alexander Dulaunoy
In some Asian countries, there are Sky Lantern Festivals and it’s just quite obvious that it becomes crowded with people because of how awesome it may become!
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Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival

By: dans
There could just be something to look forward to every single day when you have engaged yourself into wishing for something from the Sky Lantern. It’s cute though.
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Fly Sky Lanterns In Shi-Fen

By: dans
It fascinates the eyes once every single sky lantern takes flight and they make such a beautiful view in the skies with its identical lights scattered.
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PingXi Sky Lantern Festival

By: dans
What keeps the density of these cool sky lanterns would be the fire that’s lit up. Once it runs out, lantern floats back to the ground.
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Release Sky Lanterns

By: dans
It’s just so good to capture these moments and such an amazing view of these lanterns. So nice!
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Sky Lanterns

By: maggiemarian
Each time you get to click on your camera, there is something that’s captured and when it’s as beautiful as this, it’s just so rewarding!
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Sky Lanterns

The creativity of man reaches far out to the sky as there are even lanterns so personalized. In prints or the colors it flaunts.
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Yi Peng Sky Lantern Festival San Sai Thailand

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An event to fly sky lanterns isn’t as easy to plan but with willing hearts and artistic minds, it may just go as smoothly as dreamed.
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Sky Lantern or Kong Ming Deng

By: tinker iBelle
As the lanterns race to the skies, indeed it touches the heart as they take wishes and thoughts with them.
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Lights III

By: shihiwei
These couldn’t have been popular in farmers since there is also that danger for these lanterns to cause crop fires despite how adorable they are.
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Lights IV

By: shihiwei
There are stories that would say Sky Lanterns have been the first hot air ballook. Wow!
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Make a Wish

By: migrainesky
The Kongming Lantern as said was invented by a military strategist and Chinese sage names Zhuge Liang. Sounds like it had been a long long time ago.
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Make a Wish

By: Fear-the-cute
How clever could the investor has been since they used these sky lanterns as a type of signaling balloon or to spy during warfare. Creative at that!
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Wishes

By: shobrien
Sky lanterns have become so popular to children and even at carnivals for being such a good attraction.
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One Wish

By: jenny2-point-0
A creative sight during special occasions, sky lanterns became just as popular most especially in one of Thailand’s Festivals called the Lanna Festival.
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Wedding Wish Lanterns Get a Thumbs Up

By: Wedding Lanterns
Most of the time, you should know the limitations of something that’s created to be a subject in photography. Being a photographer, you also must be responsible about it.
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Fly, Sky Lanterns!

By: Henry Leong
Just make sure that you don’t launch them in strong winds so as not to deplete the success of the event you just created. Well, when it’s windy, you can’t get much of a view from these lanterns though.
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Wedding Wish Lantern

By: kelseysnook
These sky lanterns may also be used as opening or much wonderful, during finales of events. Sometimes they are even the highlight! Worth capturing, isn’t it?
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Sky Lantern

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In photography, there is also that pressure for you to get the hang of a good shot in events such as these. When the moment becomes as lovely. What’s nice is that you can always explore.
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Sky Lantern Test Releasing

By: olvwu
It has never been very easy to make one single photo as meaningful once you have clicked that button on your camera. You should know the perfect angle and one perfect moment.
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PingXi Sky Lantern

By: chee_hian
Once hooked up with the dream to be an expert in photography, it would just be a piece of cake to know when is the best time to click that camera button.
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Sky Lanterns Releasing

By: olvwu
There is just so much to enjoy in Photography especially with Sky Lanterns. They fly in different directions and there are just eye-catching angles you may try looking.
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PingSi Sky Lantern

By: c.m.lee
Sometimes, it’s not just all about business but it’s all about what photos you want to take.Source

PingSi Sky Lantern

By: c.m.lee
It’s good to try many different things and angles to photograph so you’d know which one really suits you. Who knows, you’ll find yourself shooting for sky lanterns in every festival they’re flaunted!
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Sky Lanterns

By: ejoylifeforever.lin
Passion plus inspiration leads you to a good flight in Photography. Land contented as though you were a sky lantern.
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Yi Peng Lantern Festival

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Yi Peng Lantern Festival

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Yi Peng Lantern Festival

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Chiang Mai Sightseeing

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Floating lantern

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Ever felt wishes will come true after viewing them? But anyhow, for sure you’ll agree that they’re just as awesome as hot air balloons, right? Quite a sight on an evening sky! One perfect subject worth a capture of a very good camera indeed!