{"id":43481,"date":"2026-01-27T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43481"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:46:00","slug":"square-format-at-ennis-click-the-post-to-see-the-photo-full-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/square-format-at-ennis-click-the-post-to-see-the-photo-full-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Format at Ennis (click the post to see the photo full frame)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My Rollei model T offered a square format, which presents an interesting way of composing photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2002, I traveled from Dublin to Limerick by train, where I changed for the branch train to Ennis, Co. Clare. At the time, Irish Rail was still operating a short Cravens set with steam heat hauled by a lone 141-class General Motors diesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon arrival at Ennis, I made series of square photos of this quaint branch train on Fuji Neopan 400 black & white film. My intent was to preserve for posterity the train in the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I scanned this image using an Epson V600 scanner and performed some nominal digital processing to make the most of the black & white negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light explores railway photography!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upon arrival at Ennis, Co. Clare, I made series of square-format photos of this quaint branch train on Fuji Neopan 400 black & white film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43482,"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":[5031,6681,5050],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Irish_Rail_Ennis_Co_Clare_Jan2002\u00a9Brian-Solomon00852.jpg?fit=2009%2C2048","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bjj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43481"}],"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=43481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43483,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43481\/revisions\/43483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}