{"id":15193,"date":"2016-05-14T05:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2016-05-14T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T12:22:42","slug":"sncf-valencienes%e2%80%91revisited-april-2016-six-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sncf-valencienes%e2%80%91revisited-april-2016-six-new-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"SNCF Valenciennes\u2011Revisited (April 2016). Six NEW photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last October (2015), I visited Valenciennes in northern France. I stopped by again a few weeks ago during my April 2016 wanderings in France and Belgium.<\/p>\n

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In these views I focused on the old Chemin de fer du Nord Station (SNCF\u2019s Gare de Valencienes) and the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n

Using my FujiFilm X-T1, I made images that feature the old station as both subject and background. Notice how selective focus and use of light shifts the central interest from the old building to the tram.<\/p>\n

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Outback of the station, there are, of course, SNCF trains and an impressive array of trackage that make interesting subjects in their own right.<\/p>\n

Together, the building, trams, SNCF trains and trackage make for a scene, but one not possible to adequately represent in one image.\u00a0Thus this myriad collection of images. This is a work in progress.<\/p>\n

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An SNCF train approaches Gare de Valenciennes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Last October (2015), I visited Valenciennes in northern France. I stopped by again a few weeks ago during my April 2016 wanderings in France and Belgium. In these views I focused on the old Chemin de fer du Nord Station (SNCF\u2019s Gare de Valencienes) and the surrounding environment. Using my FujiFilm X-T1, I made images … Continue reading SNCF Valenciennes\u2011Revisited (April 2016). Six NEW photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15185,"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":[3786,4537,2333,3526,401,2638,3527,24,2981],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SNCF_Gare_Valenciences_DSCF6280.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3X3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193"}],"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=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15243,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions\/15243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}