{"id":42476,"date":"2025-08-15T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42476"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:09:57","slug":"obb-selzthal-red-signals-in-the-blue-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/obb-selzthal-red-signals-in-the-blue-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"OBB Selzthal\u2014Red signals in the blue hour."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is in a title?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hope is that it\u2014the title\u2014 will capture your curiosity so that you will open the post and view the photo. Sometimes, I opt for the elusive, the subtle, or the vague. Other times, I simply spell it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On rare occasion, I&#8217;ll imply a contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not one of the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no prize but the photo itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed this image on a visit to the \u00d6BB bahnhof at Selzthal, Austria on January 7, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dusk had fallen, and the snow was falling too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" data-attachment-id=\"42477\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/obb-selzthal-red-signals-in-the-blue-hour\/obb-selzthal-p1240017-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1152\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LX3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1325951091&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?fit=709%2C399\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?fit=474%2C267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?resize=474%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?resize=709%2C399 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C575 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?resize=205%2C115 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C864 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OBB-Selzthal-P1240017-2.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lumix LX3 proved the perfect tool to capture the &#8216;blue hour&#8217; 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