{"id":29531,"date":"2020-07-24T07:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29531"},"modified":"2020-07-24T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:32:19","slug":"july-24-2015-waiting-at-a-grade-crossing-at-niskaniitty-two-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/july-24-2015-waiting-at-a-grade-crossing-at-niskaniitty-two-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"July 24, 2015: WAITING AT A Grade Crossing at Niskaniitty\u2014Two PHOTOS."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the afternoon of July 24, 2015, my Finnish friends, Markku, Petri, Pietu and I waited at this rural grade crossing east of Kontiomaki, Finland for a diesel powered long distance local freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was warm and quiet. For me it had an edge of the world quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally after a while we could hear the diesel approaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a VR\u00a0\u00a0Class Dr16 leading symbol freight T4077 from Joensuu in south eastern Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"29532\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/july-24-2015-waiting-at-a-grade-crossing-at-niskaniitty-two-photos\/grade_crossing_at_niskaniitty_near_kontiomaki_dscf3235\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Grade_Crossing_at_Niskaniitty_near_Kontiomaki_DSCF3235-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/july-24-2015-waiting-at-a-grade-crossing-at-niskaniitty-two-photos\/vr_dr16_w_t4077_from_joensuu_at_niskaniitty_near_kontiomaki_dscf3243\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VR_Dr16_w_T4077_from_Joensuu_at_Niskaniitty_near_Kontiomaki_DSCF3243-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VR_Dr16_w_T4077_from_Joensuu_at_Niskaniitty_near_Kontiomaki_DSCF3243\" data-image-description=\"\" 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I had been playing with the camera\u2019s presets, and made an image of the grade crossing using a monochrome setting. Although I was exposing some Fuji Provia 100F, I didn\u2019t use any black &amp; white film at this location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0900a3\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of July 24, 2015, my Finnish friends, Markku, Petri, Pietu and I waited at this rural grade crossing east of Kontiomaki, Finland for a diesel powered local freight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29532,"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":[7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Grade_Crossing_at_Niskaniitty_near_Kontiomaki_DSCF3235-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7Gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29531"}],"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=29531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29534,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29531\/revisions\/29534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}