{"id":10720,"date":"2015-04-23T03:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T07:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2015-04-23T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T13:00:58","slug":"philadelphia-a-view-from-a-canoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphia-a-view-from-a-canoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2014A View from a Canoe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m always looking for an angle. A family outing on the Schuylkill River in September 2007 provided this opportunity. A SEPTA Silverliner IV glides across the former Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s Connecting Railway bridge.<\/p>\n<p>In my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/North-American-Railroad-Bridges-Solomon\/dp\/0760325278\" target=\"_blank\">North American Railroad Bridges<\/a> (published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voyageurpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voyageur Press<\/a> in 2007), I wrote about this Schuylkill span:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1914, this massive arch over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia replaced the original 1867 double-track bridge made of stone arches and a metal truss span. Today it carries Amtrak\u2019s North East Corridor. Although it resembles the stone arches it replaced, it is actually a reinforced concrete arch faced with sandstone.<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10721\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/04\/23\/philadelphia-a-view-from-a-canoe\/philadelphia_sept2007_brian_solomon_193453\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10721\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphia-a-view-from-a-canoe\/philadelphia_sept2007_brian_solomon_193453\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?fit=800%2C528\" data-orig-size=\"800,528\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;I exposed this image at dusk on Fujichrome slide film using my Nikon F3. The low angle afforded by my seat in the canoe, I was able to make the most of the surface of the river without getting wet.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?fit=709%2C468\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?fit=474%2C313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10721\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?resize=474%2C313\" alt=\"I exposed this image at dusk on Fujichrome slide film using my Nikon F3. The low angle afforded by my seat in the canoe, I was able to make the most of the surface of the river without getting wet.\" width=\"474\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?resize=205%2C135 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?resize=709%2C468 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?resize=455%2C300 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I exposed this image at dusk on Fujichrome slide film using my Nikon F3. The low angle afforded by my seat in the canoe, allowed me to\u00a0 make the most of the surface of the river without getting wet. Would a Brunswick green GG1 have made for a better photo?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0posts\u00a0new\u00a0material\u00a0every\u00a0morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please share\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a><\/strong><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m always looking for an angle. A family outing on the Schuylkill River in September 2007 provided this opportunity. A SEPTA Silverliner IV glides across the former Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s Connecting Railway bridge. In my book North American Railroad Bridges (published by Voyageur Press in 2007), I wrote about this Schuylkill span: In 1914, this massive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphia-a-view-from-a-canoe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philadelphia\u2014A View from a Canoe.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10721,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4537,2660,7535,183,1231,191,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philadelphia_Sept2007_Brian_Solomon_193453.jpg?fit=800%2C528","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720"}],"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=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10765,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}