{"id":13269,"date":"2015-11-21T19:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2015-11-21T19:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:59:26","slug":"living-the-dream-25-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/living-the-dream-25-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Dream\u201425 years on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tracking the Light on Silver . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, November 20, 2015, I located my notebook from <strong>August 1990<\/strong>. I opened it at random, trying to find some information on photographs I made on Donner Pass that year. Instead I found this observation dated August 7<sup>th<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<p><em>I think digital photography is the future of photography in several areas, but to some extent silver photography will always exist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, I processed two rolls of Fuji Across 100 that had been sitting on my desk for more than year.<\/p>\n<p>Among the photographs was this self-portrait I exposed at Connolly Station, Dublin on April 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13268\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/11\/21\/living-the-dream-25-years-on\/brian_in_mirror_connolly_station_21apr2014brian-solomon_664024\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13268\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/living-the-dream-25-years-on\/brian_in_mirror_connolly_station_21apr2014brian-solomon_664024\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?fit=1779%2C1124\" data-orig-size=\"1779,1124\" 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=\"Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian Solomon_664024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 50mm lens on Fuji Across black &#038; white film; processed in HC110 (dilution B) for 4 minutes 45 seconds; negatives toned in selenium and scanned using an Epson Perfection V600 flatbed scanner.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?fit=709%2C448\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?fit=474%2C300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13268\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?resize=474%2C300\" alt=\"Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 50mm lens on Fuji Across black &amp; white film; processed in HC110 (dilution B) for 4 minutes 45 seconds; negatives toned in selenium and scanned using an Epson Perfection V600 flatbed scanner.\" width=\"474\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?resize=709%2C448 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?resize=205%2C130 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?resize=1022%2C646 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?w=1779 1779w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 50mm lens on Fuji Acros 100 black &amp; white film; processed in HC110 (dilution B) for 4 minutes 45 seconds; negatives toned in selenium and scanned using an Epson Perfection V600 flatbed scanner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The real lesson here: take notes.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light posts new material daily!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking the Light on Silver . . . Yesterday, November 20, 2015, I located my notebook from August 1990. I opened it at random, trying to find some information on photographs I made on Donner Pass that year. Instead I found this observation dated August 7th: I think digital photography is the future of photography &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/living-the-dream-25-years-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living the Dream\u201425 years on.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13268,"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":[10,48],"tags":[3786,3110,1452,3109,3108,3111],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brian_in_mirror_Connolly_Station_21Apr2014\u00a9Brian-Solomon_664024.jpg?fit=1779%2C1124","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3s1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269"}],"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=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13271,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions\/13271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}