{"id":10812,"date":"2015-05-04T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:16:29","slug":"remembering-the-golden-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/remembering-the-golden-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Golden West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was August 1992 and Southern Pacific had just recently introduced the Golden West branding on some freight cars. I was on my way back from work with a free roll of Agfachrome 50 slide film and I made these photos at SP\u2019s South San Francisco yard.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to resist fresh paint and so I\u00a0made a variety of detail shots.<\/p>\n<p>At the time I was managing an E6 color film processing machine for a photo studio nearby, so the next day I ran the film through the soup and mounted the slides at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?attachment_id=10813\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10813\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10813\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/remembering-the-golden-west\/sp_golden_west_cars_summer_1992brian-solomon-234120\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992Brian-Solomon-234120.jpg?fit=882%2C600\" data-orig-size=\"882,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234119.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234119.jpg?resize=709%2C482 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234119.jpg?resize=441%2C300 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?attachment_id=10815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10815\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/remembering-the-golden-west\/sp_golden_west_cars_summer_1992_brian-solomon-234118\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?fit=882%2C600\" data-orig-size=\"882,600\" 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=\"SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian Solomon 234118\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?fit=709%2C482\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?fit=474%2C322\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10815\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?resize=474%2C322\" alt=\"SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian Solomon 234118\" width=\"474\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?w=882 882w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?resize=205%2C139 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?resize=709%2C482 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?resize=441%2C300 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back then I only used E6 films for \u2018supporting\u2019 photographs and extra shots. Anything that I deemed really important, I\u00a0exposed on Kodachrome 25.<\/p>\n<p>What I recall about the Agfachrome was that it had a decidedly reddish bias as compared with K25, but was less contrasty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">E<\/a><\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">very\u00a0morning<\/a><\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>posts\u00a0new\u00a0material<strong>.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was August 1992 and Southern Pacific had just recently introduced the Golden West branding on some freight cars. I was on my way back from work with a free roll of Agfachrome 50 slide film and I made these photos at SP\u2019s South San Francisco yard. It\u2019s hard to resist fresh paint and so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/remembering-the-golden-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering the Golden West<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10815,"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":[2676,7535,2675,42],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SP_Golden_West_cars_summer_1992_Brian-Solomon-234118.jpg?fit=882%2C600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2Oo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812"}],"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=10812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10817,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions\/10817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}