{"id":9146,"date":"2014-12-04T02:48:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9146"},"modified":"2014-12-04T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T13:31:37","slug":"union-pacific-at-rock-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/union-pacific-at-rock-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific at Rock Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Tracking the Light silhouette.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On August 15-16, 2009, I\u2019d been camping in California\u2019s Feather River Canyon near the curved Rock Creek trestle. In the early light of dawn, I made a series of photos of this Union Pacific container train crossing the bridge.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujicrome with a Canon EOS 3 with 28mm lens. I gauged my exposure on the sky, intending to make a silhouette of the train and bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This image features\u00a0the tail-end \u2018Distributed Power Unit\u2019 (a radio controlled remote locomotive). After making this photo I followed the train west down the canyon and made more images.<\/p>\n

Thankfully Union Pacific paints its bridges an aluminum color which helps visually separate the girders from the inky blackness of the trees beyond. Would this photo work if the bridge were painted black?<\/p>\n

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