{"id":12332,"date":"2015-09-06T01:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T05:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12332"},"modified":"2015-09-05T16:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:10:27","slug":"german-panorama-looking-down-on-koln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/german-panorama-looking-down-on-koln\/","title":{"rendered":"German Panorama\u2014Looking Down on K\u00f6ln."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The K\u00f6lnTriangle building in K\u00f6ln Deutz on the east bank of the Rhein offers a magnificent view of the railway bridge and the famous Dom.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Gerry Conmy, Stephen Hirsch, Denis McCabe and I spent about an hour watching the trains here. To the northeast is the K\u00f6ln Deutz Bahnhof and a maze of related trackage. Beyond is a junction and a yard.<\/p>\n<p>From above, it\u2019s like an enormous model railway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12330\" style=\"width: 4896px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?attachment_id=12330\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12330\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/german-panorama-looking-down-on-koln\/db_sunny_view_from_panorama_w_koln_dscf5497\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264\" data-orig-size=\"4896,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1441286124&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;LX7 photo.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12330\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"LX7 photo.\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?w=4896 4896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Photography is challenging because of the plate glass barricades in the roof garden. I largely overcame difficulties with reflections and dirt by using a very wide aperture and holding the camera lens as close as possible to the glass, while shading the camera with my hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tracking the Light posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The K\u00f6lnTriangle building in K\u00f6ln Deutz on the east bank of the Rhein offers a magnificent view of the railway bridge and the famous Dom. A few days ago, Gerry Conmy, Stephen Hirsch, Denis McCabe and I spent about an hour watching the trains here. To the northeast is the K\u00f6ln Deutz Bahnhof and a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/german-panorama-looking-down-on-koln\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">German Panorama\u2014Looking Down on K\u00f6ln.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12330,"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":[2927,94,2924,2926],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DB_sunny_View_from_Panorama_w_Koln_DSCF5497.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3cU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332"}],"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=12332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12333,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions\/12333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}