Sunset on the tarmac
Sunset at the Buffalo airport Friday:
I love the cloud shadow.
Technically, this post belongs on the Photoblog, but when I took the above photo, a couple of airport employees saw me doing so, and were interested in the picture, so I gave them my main website URL (which points here) and told 'em they'd be able to find it at that address. So I figure I should make an exception and post it here.
Besides, there's an interesting Homeland Security angle. One of the employees, having seen me taking sunset pictures through the thick glass in the terminal, asked if I'd like to go outside -- onto the tarmac -- so I could get a better shot. Not wanting to pass up such a cool opportunity, I said, sure! So he entered his security code, opened the locked doors and took me outside, where I did indeed take some more photos, including this one:
I also watched a couple of planes land. All the while, I was thinking to myself -- though I obviously wasn't going to compalin -- "um, isn't this kind of a security breach?" Then again, the employee who let me out was there the whole time, standing very close by, so, even if I were a terrorist, it's not like I could have, like, launched a shoulder-fired missile without him noticing, or whatever. Besides, standing around inside an airport taking pictures of sunsets, and waiting for an employee to spontaneously offer to take you outside, is not exactly a high-percentage terror strategy. :) But still. I guess I must have looked fairly non-threatening...
I love the cloud shadow.
Technically, this post belongs on the Photoblog, but when I took the above photo, a couple of airport employees saw me doing so, and were interested in the picture, so I gave them my main website URL (which points here) and told 'em they'd be able to find it at that address. So I figure I should make an exception and post it here.
Besides, there's an interesting Homeland Security angle. One of the employees, having seen me taking sunset pictures through the thick glass in the terminal, asked if I'd like to go outside -- onto the tarmac -- so I could get a better shot. Not wanting to pass up such a cool opportunity, I said, sure! So he entered his security code, opened the locked doors and took me outside, where I did indeed take some more photos, including this one:
I also watched a couple of planes land. All the while, I was thinking to myself -- though I obviously wasn't going to compalin -- "um, isn't this kind of a security breach?" Then again, the employee who let me out was there the whole time, standing very close by, so, even if I were a terrorist, it's not like I could have, like, launched a shoulder-fired missile without him noticing, or whatever. Besides, standing around inside an airport taking pictures of sunsets, and waiting for an employee to spontaneously offer to take you outside, is not exactly a high-percentage terror strategy. :) But still. I guess I must have looked fairly non-threatening...
posted by Brendan Loy at
7/28/2008 08:10:00 AM
