{"id":13899,"date":"2016-01-30T05:58:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:18:17","slug":"the-lovely-trees-norfolk-southernpan-am-southern-intermodal-train-at-shirley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-lovely-trees-norfolk-southernpan-am-southern-intermodal-train-at-shirley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lovely Trees; Norfolk Southern\/Pan Am Southern Intermodal Train at Shirley."},"content":{"rendered":"

If I captioned this post, \u201823K passes Shirley\u2019, would you have looked any way?<\/p>\n

The other day when Paul Goewey, Bob Arnold and I were photographing trains at Shirley, Massachusetts, I exposed these views of the daily westward intermodal train symbol 23K that originates a few miles to the east at Ayer.<\/p>\n

The Lovely Trees:\u00a0These two massive trunks\u00a0have fascinated me for years, and make for an excellent means to frame up a photo. Here, in the first view the intermodal train is almost incidental to the scene.<\/p>\n

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Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera fitted with a Zeiss 12mm Tuoit lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Which of these views of Norfolk Southern\/Pan Am Southern\u2019s 23K do you prefer?<\/p>\n

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A closer view made moments after the first. In this image I’ve emphasized the train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is an ‘enhanced’ version of the above. Working from the RAW file, I’ve made a variety of subtle changes to contrast, exposure, saturation and clarity in Lightroom as a means of making a more pleasing image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If I captioned this post, \u201823K passes Shirley\u2019, would you have looked any way? The other day when Paul Goewey, Bob Arnold and I were photographing trains at Shirley, Massachusetts, I exposed these views of the daily westward intermodal train symbol 23K that originates a few miles to the east at Ayer. The Lovely Trees:\u00a0These … Continue reading The Lovely Trees; Norfolk Southern\/Pan Am Southern Intermodal Train at Shirley.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13898,"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":[3786,4537,2001,237,7535,535,3285,104,59,883,3100],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NS_23K_Shirley_DSCF0037.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899"}],"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=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13906,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions\/13906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}