{"id":4964,"date":"2010-01-04T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2010-01-04T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:36:11","slug":"more-about-photo-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2010\/01\/04\/more-about-photo-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"More about photo travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"right_box\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8176740@N05\/4216561324\/\" title=\"Travelling Light\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4216561324_f5e67a6da8_m.jpg\" alt=\"Travelling Light\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" border=\"0\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8176740@N05\/4216561324\/\" title=\"garryknight\" target=\"_blank\">garryknight<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>It seems that I was not the only one to be worried about traveling as a photographer. I found this interesting article from Photofocus (<a href=\"http:\/\/photofocus.com\/2009\/12\/30\/traveling-better-get-a-ups-account\/\">Traveling? Better Get a UPS Account<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Things keep changing but I noticed three interesting advices or comments:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <em>If you are flying from outside the USA to the US, don&#8217;t count on getting any carry-ons onto the plane<\/em>. I was insisting on limiting the weight of your cabin luggage, but Scott goes further&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>Flying domestically in the USA is no guarantee that your carry on will be allowed<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Get a UPS Account<\/em>. It&#8217;s frightening, but it may become the only way to transport photo gear (checked luggage is too easily\/often stolen and too harshly handled -even compared to UPS, DHL, Fedex, etc.) and having an account is great for getting better service. And they don&#8217;t even charge you for opening an account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It seems that being a photographer was a pain in the neck in some cities where you were considered as a potential terrorist just for shooting pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the problem will disappear if traveling with your camera gear becomes near to impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo credit: garryknight It seems that I was not the only one to be worried about traveling as a photographer. I found this interesting article from Photofocus (Traveling? Better Get a UPS Account). Things keep changing but I noticed three interesting advices or comments: If you are flying from outside the USA to the US, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[215,243,217,130,242,646],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-airport","tag-flight","tag-plane","tag-safari","tag-security","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}