There was no balcony, I took the photos from the window of my hotel room on the 6th floor, using the digital zoom of my camera. Luckily you can't notice it, but there was also the glass of the window, which could not be opened... too hot outside in Arizona! I'm quite sure no one noticed me.
I felt like a kind of shmoe version of the character played by James Stewart in "Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock!