{"id":29226,"date":"2020-05-31T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29226"},"modified":"2020-05-31T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T21:25:32","slug":"bo-bo-on-the-viaduct-small-loco-big-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bo-bo-on-the-viaduct-small-loco-big-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo-Bo on the Viaduct; Small Loco, BIG Lens."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It was more than twenty years ago, back on March 4, 2000, that I exposed this view of Irish Rail 141-class diesel-electric 159 racing northward on the Northern at Donabate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denis McCabe, the late Norman McAdams and I were out for a bunch of special trains coming down from Belfast. I wasn\u2019t expecting it, but this light engine was a bit of a bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was working with Sensia II (ISO) in a Nikon N90S fitted with a manual focus Tokina f5.6 400mm lens that I\u2019d bought second-hand from my friend Doug Moore several years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday when I scanned the slide, I thought there was excessive dust on the emulsion and so rescanned after considerable attention with a can of compressed air to clean it. It was only on close inspection that I realized that the ‘specks’ in the sky were, in\u00a0\u00a0fact, birds, and not<\/strong> dust!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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