{"id":13844,"date":"2016-01-21T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:09:55","slug":"tracking-the-light-looks-back-five-years-ago-amtraks-vermonter-at-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-looks-back-five-years-ago-amtraks-vermonter-at-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Looks Back: Five Years Ago, Amtrak&#8217;s Vermonter at Palmer."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Brian Solomon&#8217;s Tracking the Light posts daily!<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I was searching through my Panasonic Lumix LX3 files from five years ago and I found this frosty low-sun photograph of Amtrak&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Vermonter\u00a0<\/em>departing CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts for Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Rich winter sun offers a wonderful quality of light. While cold days maybe pose an endurance challenge for the\u00a0photographer, the results can be outstanding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13843\" style=\"width: 2666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vermonter-palmer-p1000684-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13843\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13843\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-looks-back-five-years-ago-amtraks-vermonter-at-palmer\/vermonter-palmer-p1000684-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?fit=2666%2C1500\" data-orig-size=\"2666,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LX3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1295971331&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vermonter Palmer P1000684-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?fit=709%2C399\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?fit=474%2C267\" class=\"wp-image-13843 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?resize=474%2C267\" alt=\"Vermonter Palmer P1000684-2\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?w=2666 2666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?resize=205%2C115 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?resize=709%2C399 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C575 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amtrak&#8217;s southward Vermonter heads west on CSX&#8217;s former Boston &amp; Albany on January 25, 2011. (The train was working its\u00a0\u00a0southward schedule, although this portion of the\u00a0railroad line is oriented East-West, which presents difficulties in captioning without long-winded explanations and a bit of historical background.) Exposed with a Panasonic Lumix LX3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Please share Tracking the Light!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Solomon&#8217;s Tracking the Light posts daily! I was searching through my Panasonic Lumix LX3 files from five years ago and I found this frosty low-sun photograph of Amtrak&#8217;s\u00a0Vermonter\u00a0departing CP83 in Palmer, Massachusetts for Springfield. Rich winter sun offers a wonderful quality of light. While cold days maybe pose an endurance challenge for the\u00a0photographer, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-looks-back-five-years-ago-amtraks-vermonter-at-palmer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracking the Light Looks Back: Five Years Ago, Amtrak&#8217;s Vermonter at Palmer.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13843,"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":[3786,4537,31,3262,7535,30,1481,3260,277,3261],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vermonter-Palmer-P1000684-2.jpg?fit=2666%2C1500","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844"}],"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=13844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13845,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions\/13845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}