{"id":30693,"date":"2021-02-11T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30693"},"modified":"2021-02-11T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:40:19","slug":"waterford-july-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/waterford-july-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterford July 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To my eye, this 400mm view at Irish Rail&#8217;s Waterford yard is more about the tracks and the signaling than about the timber train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the photo using a Nikon N90S loaded with Fujichrome Velvia 100 and fitted with an old Tokina 400mm lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backlighting accentuated the trackage while making silhouette of the signals and lighting polls. It also give the distant trees a dream-like pastoral effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was standing on the platform at Waterford Station beneath the main road bridge over the tracks. 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