{"id":11386,"date":"2015-06-18T03:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2015-06-18T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:04:42","slug":"a-thoroughbred-versus-a-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-thoroughbred-versus-a-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thoroughbred versus a Heron."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed with a Fujifilm X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’d spotted the Heron standing on the old Southern Railway lift-bridge at Richmond\u2019s Great Ship Lock Park, before I heard the low throb of the 645 diesel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a train coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doug Riddell was giving Pat Yough and me\u00a0a thorough tour of the area, and we were looking for an angle to photograph Amtrak 67 on the nearby Chesapeake & Ohio viaduct.<\/p>\n

I focused on the bird. Would it stay still long enough to catch it with the locomotive?<\/p>\n

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Here my zoom lens was invaluable. I made tight angle of the heron, and then pulled back to include the scene.<\/p>\n

\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed using a Fuji X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The SD40-2 eased around the bend. I kept my eye on the bird. How long would it stand there? Finally as the train drew closer the bird raised its wings and with a squawk took flight. I exposed a short burst of images. The tightest is a cropped view.<\/p>\n

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\"This<\/a>
This is the full-frame un-cropped image. In the blink of an eye the Heron took flight and was gone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’d spotted the Heron standing on the old Southern Railway lift-bridge at Richmond\u2019s Great Ship Lock Park, before I heard the low throb of the 645 diesel. \u201cThere\u2019s a train coming.\u201d Doug Riddell was giving Pat Yough and me\u00a0a thorough tour of the area, and we were looking for an angle to photograph Amtrak 67 … Continue reading A Thoroughbred versus a Heron.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2778,2777,2776,59,2197,2692],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Southern_Railway_Bridge_w_Heron_Great_Shiplock_Park_Richmond__w_train_DSCF0036.jpg?fit=720%2C480","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2XE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11433,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions\/11433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}