{"id":15481,"date":"2016-05-30T06:07:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T10:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15481"},"modified":"2016-05-28T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T00:58:19","slug":"sunrise-on-the-old-western-rail-road-middlefield-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunrise-on-the-old-western-rail-road-middlefield-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise on the old Western Rail Road; Middlefield, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1841, the rails of the old Western Rail Road (later Boston &amp; Albany, and for the time-being\u00a0CSXT&#8217;s Boston Line) have served as a conduit of commerce through the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>I made this photograph at sunrise using my FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with a Zeiss 12mm Touit lens and a graduated neutral density filter to control contrast.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Mel Patrick has often posed the question: &#8216;must all railroad photos show trains?&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15480\" style=\"width: 2449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15480\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunrise-on-the-old-western-rail-road-middlefield-massachusetts\/ba_at_middlefield_dscf7476-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633\" data-orig-size=\"2449,1633\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1463404102&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"B&#038;A_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed in May 2016 using  FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with 12mm Zeiss lens. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Exposed in May 2016 using FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with 12mm Zeiss lens. \" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?w=2449 2449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed in May 2016 using FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with 12mm Zeiss lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tracking the Light posts daily.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1841, the rails of the old Western Rail Road (later Boston &amp; Albany, and for the time-being\u00a0CSXT&#8217;s Boston Line) have served as a conduit of commerce through the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. I made this photograph at sunrise using my FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with a Zeiss 12mm Touit lens and a graduated neutral &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunrise-on-the-old-western-rail-road-middlefield-massachusetts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunrise on the old Western Rail Road; Middlefield, Massachusetts.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15480,"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":[3565,41,1971,783,1043,1445],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BA_at_Middlefield_DSCF7476-2.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-41H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481"}],"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=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15482,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions\/15482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}