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Norfolk Southern’s H28 was on the roll east on the New Holland Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrived at my pre-selected location just as the lights began to flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hope was to place the stream in the foreground to break up the scene while balancing the train with trees at the left. I was focused on my compositional ratios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful over-the-shoulder morning winter sun made for excellent lighting conditions. I made a few digital images and exposed some color slides with the Leica M4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I downloaded the digital images, I discovered to my dismay that at the time of exposure I’d failed to notice the bit of red trash in the tree branches. Poor show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film remains latent. I hope the slides have better composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light explores the successes and failures of individual railroad images.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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