{"id":42200,"date":"2025-07-18T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42200"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:28:35","slug":"exploring-peach-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/exploring-peach-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Peach Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week Kris, Seamus and I took a drive to Peach Bottom, Pa. This is among the river towns along the Susquehanna River with photographic opportunites of Norfolk Southern&#8217;s Port Road Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We investigated several places with views of the river and I made these photos with my Nikon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exploration is part of the fun and part of my process. 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