Awaiting takeoff

[P. J. Alling]

I've always thought that the Vivitar 90-180 flat field lens would make a 
nice short heavy club.  But they've always let me carry it on, no muss 
no fuss.

cbwaters 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
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> 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.
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