{"id":7544,"date":"2014-07-19T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2014-07-19T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:56:23","slug":"happy-birthday-to-tracking-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/happy-birthday-to-tracking-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Tracking the Light!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been two years today (July 19, 2014) since Tracking the Light’s first Post (July 19, 2012).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The first installment featured this image on the Central Vermont Railway crossing the Connecticut River.<\/p>\n

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Central Vermont Railway at Windsor, Vermont. Originally posted on July 19, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Click HERE <\/a>to check out the inaugural post.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light has been posting daily since March 2013.<\/p>\n

To date, the most popular\u00a0item was posted January 20, 2013:\u00a0TRACKING THE LIGHT NEWS FLASH: Photos of Philadelphia Schuylkill River Bridge Derailment.<\/a>\u00a0This alone received more than 800 views.<\/p>\n

In the last two years of Tracking the Light, I’ve covered a variety of themes, posted thousands of images, and visited many places.<\/p>\n

What was your favorite Tracking the Light story?<\/p>\n

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\"Trailing<\/a>
Trailing view at the Palmer diamond in the glinty evening light. A CSX westward intermodal train makes for a graphic subject. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Four<\/a>
Four years ago today: John Gruber with his vintage Nikon F on a restored North Shore car at the Illinois Railway Museum. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"N&W<\/a>
N&W 611 surrounded by the enemy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"CSX<\/a>
CSX Q423 (or L423) was working Palmer yard. In this view it pulls passed CP83 to double its train out of the yard. I exposed several telephoto views with the LX-7. By keeping the camera relatively low to the ground, I’ve minimized foreground distractions while allowing for a more dramatic perspective on the locomotives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed with a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens on Fujichrome Sensia 100 slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail 220 leads Monday’s Dublin-Ballina IWT liner seen west of Kildare, near Cherryville Junction. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D with 100mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A closer horizontal view with the same camera-lens combination. I adjusted the exposure by a one-third stop, opening to f8.0 to compensate for the lack of sky in the image. Locomotive 085 features a variation of the gray and yellow paint scheme introduced last year. This features the traditional three-digit locomotive number in larger fonts on the cab. This in addition to the recently introduced European multiple number printed in tiny type elsewhere on the engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This car works interlaced track where up-hill and down hill lines overlap. Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D fitted with a 100-400 image stabilization zoom lens set at 135mm; f8 at 1\/500th of second, ISO 200.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed on Fujichrome Provia 100 using a Nikon F3T with an f1.8 105mm lens. Exposure calculated manually.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Locomotive<\/a>
Locomotive 461 works west along the Royal Canal near Enfield on March 23, 2014. Exposed with a Canon EOS 7D fitted with a 20mm lens and firmly mounted on a Bogen tripod. Focus and exposure set manually.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’d only had my Canon EOS 7D for a few weeks when I made this study of geometric shapes. Metra F40PHs at Harvard made for a colorful subject. Exposed with my Canon 200mm lens handheld at f13 1\/250th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The unusual curved York train shed was built between 1871 and 1877. A Virgin Cross Country HST pauses at York on 4 July 1999. This was led by one of the less-common varieties of the Class 43 power units that featured buffers. Exposed on Fujichrome Sensia using a Nikon N90S with 24mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"16mm<\/a>
16mm Hologon view of Cincinnati Union Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Canon<\/a>
Canon EOS 7D with 20mm lens. Amtrak ACS 64 number 600.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Conrail\"<\/a>
In July 1984, Conrail 6666 leads an eastward freight on the Boston & Albany at Washington Summit, Hinsdale, Massachusetts. This photograph is unpublished and previously unprinted. It was exposed on 35mm Tri-X using a 1930s-vintage Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar lens. Post processing allowed for localized contrast control to maximize the detail in the original negative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here’s the camera RAW file. This has not been interpreted by in-camera processing to conform to a pre-established ‘picture style’. The result is perfectly exposed. I simply converted the file to a Jpg manually and scaled it for display here. I did not adjust exposure, contrast, or color. In other words its was an easy fix: there was never really a problem with the file, on with my perception of how the ‘landscape’ style Jpg had interpreted the image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The dappled light on the trees and the dark shadowed hillside beyond made for a dramatic painterly back drop, while tree shadows on the foreground snow minimized the effects of glare and provided texture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Market<\/a>
Market East. Canon EOS 7D photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Cement train crew gets off the engines after stabling the train in the sidings. After exposing these photos I boarded a train for Mallow and Tralee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cumbres<\/a>
Cumbres & Toltec former Denver & Rio Grande Western three-foot gauge line, Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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