{"id":18031,"date":"2017-03-11T05:20:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18031"},"modified":"2017-03-09T04:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:24:50","slug":"dart-on-the-loop-line-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dart-on-the-loop-line-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"DART on the Loop Line at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this a railway photo?<\/p>\n

At dusk on the evening of March 2, 2017, I exposed this view of the River Liffey in Dublin.<\/p>\n

An Irish Rail DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) electric train is crossing the Loop Line bridge on its way to Connolly Station.<\/p>\n

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Exposed using a Lumix LX7; f2.2 at 1\/5th of a second, ISO 200. Camera mounted on a Gitzo mini tripod.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The most prominent elements of the image are the Custom House, an 18th<\/sup> century relic of the British Imperial presence in Ireland, and coloured lights reflecting in the Liffey. The railway takes a secondary role.<\/p>\n

When the Loop Line bridge was built in the late 19th<\/sup> century, pundits moaned that it spoiled the view of the Custom House. Were they lazy or just being ironic?<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Posts Daily.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is this a railway photo? At dusk on the evening of March 2, 2017, I exposed this view of the River Liffey in Dublin. An Irish Rail DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) electric train is crossing the Loop Line bridge on its way to Connolly Station. The most prominent elements of the image are the … Continue reading DART on the Loop Line at Dusk<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18030,"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":[],"tags":[4097,4096,4537,1452,19,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DART_w_Customs_House_Dublin_.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4GP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031"}],"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=18031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18032,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions\/18032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}