{"id":41078,"date":"2025-01-31T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41078"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:13:14","slug":"fifty-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fifty-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s Tracking the Light is a &#8216;happy birthday&#8217; to my brother S\u00e9an who was born on this day in 1970!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this photo, Amtrak&#8217;s southward <em>Vermonter<\/em>, Train 55, crosses the Connecticut River near Windsor Locks, Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2012, S\u00e9an encouraged me start a blog, having enjoyed success with his own internet postings on his Sanguine Root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Vermonter<\/em> will turn 30 in April this year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo was exposed in 2014 using my Canon 7D fitted with an f2.0 100mm Canon telephoto. 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