glint
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Glint on the Water!
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Last week during my exploration of Irish Rail’s Cobh Branch with Ken Fox, I made this photo looking across the water toward Marino Point as a 2600 railcar made its way toward Cork.
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Cape Glint Captured Digitally!
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I made these trailing views of Cape Cod Central’s Dinner Train at Sagamore, Massachusetts in the final minutes of direct sun. The broad open channel of the Cape Cod Canal adjacent to the railroad plus an open area with minimal…
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Working With Glint: Cherry Orchard and a Late Running Liner.
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Last week, Irish Rail operated a late IWT liner that departed Dublin in the evening, instead on its normal mid-morning path. A group of my friends went to Cherry Orchard in the west Dublin suburbs to capture this relatively unusual…
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NJ Transit with Soft Glint—a Lesson in Light
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Air pollution, fluffy clouds and very low sun can create some wonderful soft lighting. Evening glint is a fleeting ephemeral condition. The Northeast Corridor in central New Jersey is an ideal place to make use of soft glint. Long tangent…
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New Brunswick in the Razor Shaft of Glint.
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Over the shoulder light is easy to work with but doesn’t always make for the most dramatic images. When possible, I like to find dramatic lighting and to see what I can make of it. So here we have an…
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Pan Am catches the Glint at East Deerfield Yard on July 30, 2013.
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Notice that by working with low sun and cropping the sky, I’ve made an early evening image seem almost like a night time view. Hint: it really helps to view this post on Tracking the Light to avoid cropping and…
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Acela Coming and Going; Alternative Views at Madison, Connecticut-June 23, 2016.
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On a previous visit to Madison, Connecticut, I noted that a long lens would work well in the curve east of the Shore Line East station. In earlier posts, I presented examples of Amtrak’s Acela against a sunset sky; and…
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Dynamic Duewag Photos; Low angle with glint.
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Evening sun with a textured fair-weather sky combined with well maintained paving stones and a healthy tree at left made for a visually compelling setting. Freiburg, Germany still operates some of its vintage Duewag trams that feature a streamlined…
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Amtrak 137 Catches the Glint at West Haven.
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Brian Solomon’s Tracking the Light is a Daily Blog discussing Railway Photography. Another set from the old school: On January 29, 2016 at West Haven, Connecticut, I exposed a series of Fujichrome color slides of Amtrak train 137 (Boston to Washington)…
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Classic Chrome: Amtrak train 88 catches the Glint at Green’s Farms, November 8, 2015.
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I love a great sunset glint opportunity. Last autumn, I revisited this spot at Green’s Farms, Connecticut with Pat Yough and George W. Kowanski. While I exposed a number of views digitally, for this image I used my Canon EOS…
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Charlotte, North Carolina June 1, 2014.
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On June 1, 2014, Pat Yough and I traveled on the Carolinian from Charlotte to the Philadelphia area. We were returning from a successful visit to the North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event. The train departed Charlotte on time. I…
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DAILY POST: Quaboag River Sunset, June 1986
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Conrail’s GE C30-7As catch the Glint. In early summer 1986, Conrail was weeks away from converting the Boston & Albany route from a traditional directional double track mainline to a single-track line under the control of CTC-style signals with cab-signal….
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Daily Post: Zephyr Glints on the Chicago Raceway
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Amtrak’s California Zephyr on the last lap to Chicago. Last Saturday afternoon, Chris Guss, Pat Yough and I finished up a day’s photography on the former Burlington ‘Triple Track’ around La Grange, Illinois. We inspected Metra’s Congress Park Station, which…