Gate 30 sits at the very end of SFO’s terminal one.  Beyond the restaurants, recharging stations and other conveniences offered to travelers in transition.  It is safe to say this is the farthest you can go without actually being airborne.  While I wait on the cusp of vacation, I gaze through the wall of windows before me.  Planes glide across the view like so many aquarium fish.  Their fins and flaps effortlessly guiding them to their destinations.  I wonder what kind of fish I’ll get.  Probably a filet-o-fish knowing my luck.

I decide to take a few snapshots with my pocket camera.  The first one is a disaster.  A huge reflection of myself is ghosted over the planes.  Oh yeah: sunlight + window = reflection.   Oops.  To avoid the “artistic” self-portrait, I place the lens against the window and shoot again.  It works and that’s the image you see above.  Other ways to avoid glare are to change your angle (position)  or to use a polarizing filter, but this works in a pinch.