On Dec 3, 2007 6:37 AM, cbwaters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was in Michigan again right after Thanksgiving for my sister's wedding(see > my earlier post for the funny photographer story). > Our plane home was delayed so we sat in the airport in Flint for a couple > hours I took this out the window while somebody else's plane home was > getting ready for takeoff. > K10 and FA 28-105. I adjusted the white balance and may have upped the > sharpening a little in the conversion. > http://cwaters.smugmug.com/gallery/3930734#228209720 > > By the way, they let me take my tripod as a carry-on. Our big suitcase was > too heavy on check-in (odd because it actually had less stuff than when we > flew up...) They wanted us to take 5# out or pay a $50 overage charge. The > first thing I thought of was the tripod so it came out. Some other stuff > came out and was packed into the garment bags. It wasn't until I was in the > line at security that I started to think about how many ways the tripod > could be used as a weapon... I heard the screener say " Oh, that's a bunch > of camera lenses... and a really nice camera... tripod... ok, it's all > good." I was pleased because I didn't know what we were going to do at that > point if they balked. >
Cool shot. I always thought that job (de-icing airplanes) would be one of the coldest jobs in the world. I haven't flown for over two years. Last time it was with my bike, and I put my bike's U-lock in my carry-on so it wouldn't rattle around and hurt my bike (which was boxed and checked). They confiscated it. Said I could use it as a "bludgeon". I tried to explain that a pen would make a better weapon than a lock, but the nice man disagreed. $40 down the tubes. Oh well. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
