Airbus A330-200 (9M-MUB)

They say you can choose your friends but not your family. Well that can apply to aviation photography, where you can choose your location but you can't choose the rotation spot and in this case it just had to be with a tree between the plane and me!

This is the departure of the MASKargo flight that had arrived less than two hours before and in the meantime, the wind direction had changed making the duty runway 05 from 23 when it landed.

This is more favorable by not having to go to the opposite side of the airport, but with a relatively short take-off run, the rotation was far back enough to still be caught with some heat haze and that tree being in the way.

Agreed,,, I think most airports over the last 50 years I've been too have an issue with trees, but you timed this one perfectly! 5 trees...errr I mean stars! :)

Thanks Tom, lucky enough to get it in just the right spot this time.