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Getting there

Getting there

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Getting there

It seems kind of silly to talk about airline travel being tiring when I've just been sitting all day, but I'm exhausted. It's tiring getting your stuff to the airport and dealing with security and then sitting on the plane for hours and hours and hours. But there are some things you can do to make it a little less stressful. As photographers, of course, we have the extra stress of carrying all this expensive, fragile photo gear, and we want to be sure it gets to where we're going and we want to be sure it gets there in one piece, and that of course comes down to smart packing. You want to carry on your expensive fragile photo gear and check your clothes and all the other stuff that can withstand being tossed around a little bit. That said, I still pack a fair amount of photo gear in my checked baggage. I'll put my tripod, flash diffusers, battery chargers, things like that that can really stand a beating. Those I will put in my checked baggage, and a lot of that stuff, it's not so…

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