{"id":26065,"date":"2019-04-02T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26065"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:46:35","slug":"first-foray-in-portugals-supremely-scenic-douro-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/first-foray-in-portugals-supremely-scenic-douro-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"First Foray in Portugal\u2019s Supremely Scenic Douro Valley."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


On the agenda for last week\u2019s photographic adventure in Portugal was a venture into the Douro Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks line-works had resulted in a throw-back operation of regularly scheduled Douro Valley passenger services using vintage English Electric diesel hauled trains in place of diesel railcars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Translation: a limited opportunity to make photos of vintage trains in very scenic settings.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denis McCabe and I departed Porto in our hired car for a location I\u2019d preselected the night before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Maps provided the most direct (if not the shortest) route to a point south east of Aregos on the south bank of the river. Neither of us had ever been here before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me the Douro Valley resembles a populated version of California\u2019s Feather River Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We made it just in time: shortly after our arrival we heard a diesel working up the valley. The cameras were hastily switched \u2018on\u2019, positions taken and photos made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed with a FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.

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Trailing view. Exposed with a FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a much enlarged and cropped view of the photo above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks to Tracking the Light reader and fellow photographer Stephen Hirsch who supplied us with up to date details on Douro Valley operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not bad for our first minutes in the Douro Valley. But there\u2019s more to come! Stay tuned . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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