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Pilsner Urquell Beer Tram

On a September 2008 evening in Plzen, Czech Republic (Czechia) , I made this pan photo of a tram advertising the city’s most famous beer, Pilsner Urquell.

I was working with a Canon EOS 3 fitted with a 100mm f2.0 lens and loaded with Fujichrome. I scanned the photo the other day using a Nikon LS5000 slide scanner and processed the TIF file in Lightroom.

I like this image because it conveys motion, shows passengers inside the tram, and combines three of my favorite things in one image.

I like Pilsner Urquell, but my preferred Czech pilsner is Gambrinus, (brewed at Pilsner Urquell’s Plzen brewery).

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On this Day: Beer by Rail!

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On 10 May 2005, I exposed this color slide of Irish Rail’s Claremorris Liner from Claude Road in Dublin.

This was toward the end of an era; Irish Rail would only move kegs of beer by rail for another year or so after this image was exposed.

At the time I was working with an F3T fitted with a 180mm lens to make the most of the glinting kegs as the train worked west into the setting sun. To minimize flare, I shaded the front element of my lens with my trusty notebook.

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