{"id":41678,"date":"2025-05-06T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41678"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:51:17","slug":"narrow-gauge-in-swiss-vineyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/narrow-gauge-in-swiss-vineyards\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow Gauge in Swiss Vineyards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In April 2017, I exposed this view of a Swiss narrow gauge local train ascending from Aigle toward Leysin. This colorful little train was operated by Transports Publics du Chablais, an operator known by its initials TPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I converted the original FujiFilm RAF raw file to a DNG file using DxO PureRaw, then made some minor adjustments using Lightroom. These changes minimized lens defects, produced a sharper image, and made for a better photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"41679\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/narrow-gauge-in-swiss-vineyards\/20170421-tpc_rack_railway_to_leysin_near_aigle_castle_dscf3286\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1366\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1492759869&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;29.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286-1022x682.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FujiFilm XT1 with 18-135mm Fujinon zoom set at 29mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-94f0e2f20c6907fd39ed05e63a285571\" style=\"color:#5c8a0c\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2017, I exposed this view of a Swiss narrow gauge local train ascending from Aigle toward Leysin. This colorful little train was operated by Transports Publics du Chablais, an operator known by its initials TPC. Recently, I converted the original FujiFilm RAF raw file to a DNG file using DxO PureRaw, then made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/narrow-gauge-in-swiss-vineyards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Narrow Gauge in Swiss Vineyards<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41679,"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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5063,5253,6514],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20170421-TPC_rack_railway_to_Leysin_near_Aigle_Castle_DSCF3286.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aQe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41678"}],"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=41678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41680,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41678\/revisions\/41680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}