{"id":12832,"date":"2015-10-15T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12832"},"modified":"2015-10-14T08:10:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:10:29","slug":"amtrak-449-lake-shore-limited-at-washington-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-449-lake-shore-limited-at-washington-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak 449 Lake Shore Limited at Washington, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing the <em>Lake Shore Limited<\/em> is a tradition in our family dating back almost 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>It was a clear afternoon. The Boston section of Amtrak\u2019s <em>Lake Shore Limited<\/em> was nearly on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The other day my father and I selected a location near the summit of the Boston &amp; Albany at Washington, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12831\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?attachment_id=12831\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12831\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-449-lake-shore-limited-at-washington-massachusetts\/1aamtrak_449_washington_ma_dscf3740\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?fit=1000%2C667\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1444605812&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;In this view, back lighting helps to emphasize the train. The angular shape of Amtrak&#8217;s General Electric P42 diesel-electric catches the light nicely while the front makes a shadow that draws the eye to it as the primary subject.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12831\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"In this view, back lighting helps to emphasize the train. The angular shape of Amtrak's General Electric P42 diesel-electric catches the light nicely while the front makes a shadow that draws the eye to it as the primary subject. \" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1aAmtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3740.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this view, back lighting helps to emphasize the train. The angular shape of Amtrak&#8217;s General Electric P42 diesel-electric catches the light nicely while the front-end is in\u00a0a shadow, which draws the eye to it as the primary subject.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using my FujiFilm X-T1 I set up a view that places the train in the left-hand portion of the image, while featuring the pastoral autumnal scenery on the right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing the Lake Shore Limited is a tradition in our family dating back almost 40 years. It was a clear afternoon. The Boston section of Amtrak\u2019s Lake Shore Limited was nearly on schedule. The other day my father and I selected a location near the summit of the Boston &amp; Albany at Washington, Massachusetts. Using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-449-lake-shore-limited-at-washington-massachusetts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amtrak 449 Lake Shore Limited at Washington, Massachusetts.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12833,"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":[1897,31,41,84,517,3009],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2a-Amtrak_449_Washington_MA_DSCF3741.jpg?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3kY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832"}],"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=12832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12835,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions\/12835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}