{"id":26490,"date":"2019-04-27T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26490"},"modified":"2019-04-27T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T18:38:20","slug":"telephoto-on-the-beet-400mm-at-kilsheelan-co-tipperary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/telephoto-on-the-beet-400mm-at-kilsheelan-co-tipperary\/","title":{"rendered":"Telephoto on the Beet: 400mm at Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>It was a damp day back in 2005, when I made this 400mm view using my recently acquired Canon EOS-3 with a rented 100-400mm Canon image stabilizer zoom l.ens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the lead was Irish Rail 185 (known in some circles as \u2018Super Bo-Bo\u2019 which delighted observers because it was missing the cowling around the exhaust and produced more sound than others of its class).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sugar beet was loaded at Wellingtonbridge, County Wexford and transported by rail via Waterford and Limerick Junction to a processing plant in Mallow, County Cork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this view, exposed west of Kilsheelan, County Tipperary, by using a long telephoto lens, I compressed the train of very short four-wheel beet wagons into a virtual snake of rolling beet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26493\" 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