{"id":31597,"date":"2021-07-19T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31597"},"modified":"2021-07-19T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:40:42","slug":"rainy-night-at-cp83-in-palmer-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rainy-night-at-cp83-in-palmer-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Night at CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday night, July 17, 2021, I revisited Palmer, Massachusetts with Kris Sabbatino and Pat Yough, where we made night photos of the CSX signals at CP83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me photographing at Palmer at night is an old tradition that began in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I used to make time exposures with a Leica IIIA loaded with Kodak Tri-X, on this visit I worked with my modern Nikon Z6 mirrorless digital camera mounted on my father&#8217;s Gitzo carbon fiber tripod. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My 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