{"id":466,"date":"2012-11-04T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-11-04T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:47:00","slug":"gallery-post-4-dublins-luas-on-harcourt-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/gallery-post-4-dublins-luas-on-harcourt-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery Post 4: Dublin’s LUAS on Harcourt Street"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wearing a freshly applied advertising livery, LUAS tram 5008 works southward on Harcourt Street in Dublin on November 2, 2012. Photo by Brian Solomon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the afternoon of Friday, 2 November 2012, I was only my way up to John Gunn\u2019s Camera<\/em> on Wexford Street in Dublin to buy a few rolls of film. (Yes, I still do that sort of thing). Gazing down Cuffe Street toward St Stephen\u2019s Green, I noted a Green Line LUAS tram in a new advertising livery heading to its terminus. While most of Dublin\u2019s Alstom-built Citadis tram fleet are painted in a metallic lavender with yellow safety stripe, from time to time LUAS dresses a tram or two in a full wrap advertising. In recent months, an attractive blue tram has been frequenting the Red Line route advertising a television service. Friday\u2019s sighting caught my attention, since it\u2019s the first time I noted this new livery. Sometimes these advertising trams can be very short lived, and I like to catch them on camera when I can. Although I was a bit tight on time, I diverted via Harcourt Street, where the Green Line passes nicely restored Georgian terrace houses. Normally a tram will turn around in about 5-10 ten minutes from St. Stephen\u2019s Green, so I knew I wouldn\u2019t have long to wait.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, during my short wait, the wind kicked up, the sky darkened, and a deluge ensued; in other words it was a typical Dublin afternoon. I held my ground, despite the difficult weather, which not only dampened my day, but knocked my exposure down about 8 stops. As always, I carried my Lumix LX3 digital camera (see: Installment 3: Lumix LX-3\u2014part 1 \u00a0An Everywhere Camera<\/a>). While normally I use its lowest ISO setting of 80, the gloom didn\u2019t permit this, and I bumped up sensitivity to ISO 200. Within a few minutes the tram was whirring down Harcourt Street allowing me to expose a sequence of images. My favorite is this pan view made at f2.8 at about 1\/60 of second. Since lighting conditions were rapidly changing, I used the camera\u2019s built in \u2018A\u2019 (Aperture priority) setting, which allowed me to set the low f-stop. By panning the tram, I kept it relative sharp while putting the Georgian houses and street into a sea of blur. If time allows, I\u2019ll try to catch LUAS 5008 again on a brighter day.<\/p>\n

Reminder: Brian Solomon will be giving an illustrated talk titled Ireland \u00a0from an American Perspective 1998-2003 at the Irish Railway Record Society’s Heuston Station premises in Dublin at 7:30pm on Thursday November 8, 2012. Admission free.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Apple iBookstore link to my iPad eBook ‘Dublin Unconquered’:\u00a0http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/dublin-unconquered\/id548794442?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the afternoon of Friday, 2 November 2012, I was only my way up to John Gunn\u2019s Camera on Wexford Street in Dublin to buy a few rolls of film. (Yes, I still do that sort of thing). Gazing down Cuffe Street toward St Stephen\u2019s Green, I noted a Green Line LUAS tram in a … Continue reading Gallery Post 4: Dublin’s LUAS on Harcourt Street<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3786,19,7535,22,38,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}