{"id":30116,"date":"2020-11-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30116"},"modified":"2020-11-03T06:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:50:27","slug":"november-4-2019-one-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/november-4-2019-one-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"NOVEMBER 4, 2019\u2014Nearly ONE YEAR AGO."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How a year goes by! November 4th last year sticks in my mind as one of the best nights for rainy night photography in a very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d caught up with fellow poor-weather nocturnal photographers, Jay Monaghan, Paul Maguire and Kevin O’Brien at Drumcondra in Dublin to catch the elusive Irish Rail ‘HOBS’ (ballast train) hauled by General Locomotives diesel 075.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was cold and sluicing rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After catching the ballast passing Drumcondra station, we nipped across town by rail to Sandymount, where we waited in the rain for another shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my Fujifilm XT1 I made these memorable images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, armed with Iridient X-Transformer, I went back to last year’s success and re-interpreted some of my favorite images from that damp Irish evening, which now seems so distant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracks in the rain at Drumcondra, Dublin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Irish Rail 075 leads the HOBS at Drumcondra on November 4, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A DART suburban train pauses at Sandymount, Dublin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Irish Rail’s HOBS against the backdrop of the Lansdowne Road stadium. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The low resonating road of the 12-645E3 diesel fading into the gloom concludes Irish Rail’s HOBS passage at Sandymount on the evening of November 4, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Publishes Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Note: my intent was to publish this on November 4, 2020, but when composing the post I accidentally posted it immediately. My efforts to reschedule the post had the net effect of disrupting the link. So I’ve reposted it this morning (Tuesday November 3).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How a year goes by! This day last year sticks in my mind as one of the best nights for rainy night photography in a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[4232,5053,6526,5050,4420,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Irish_Rail_075_with_HOBS_at_Drumcondra_DSCF6102-2.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7PK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116"}],"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=30116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30125,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116\/revisions\/30125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}