{"id":42566,"date":"2025-08-25T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42566"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:50:50","slug":"across-fields-of-soy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/across-fields-of-soy\/","title":{"rendered":"Across Fields of Soy . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not a typo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday evening, Seamus-the-Dog, Kris, and I scoped out a view looking across fields of soy plants off of Esbenshade Road to catch Strasburg Rail Road&#8217;s returning 6pm excursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made these views using my 70-200mm Nikon Z-Series telephoto zoom fitted to my Z6 mirrorless camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The light was perfect and the angle just to my liking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not a bad sequence of images, it&#8217;s only 95 percent in my book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong? In the process of framing the image to get the foreground and background just right, I wasn&#8217;t able to pose the locomotive &#8216;rods down&#8217;. 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