{"id":17885,"date":"2017-02-11T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17885"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:34:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T10:34:59","slug":"611-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/611-on-the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"611 on the Fly."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry, not the N&W J.<\/p>\n

The other day when photographer Mike Gardner and I were in hot pursuit of New England Central freight 611, and we saw this scene unfolding as we approached the Vermont-Massachusetts state line.<\/p>\n

The locomotives were catching the light against a dramatic sky in a wide-open landscape.<\/p>\n

Wonderful, but we were sorely out of position.<\/p>\n

This 112-car freight had been making better progress than I anticipated.<\/p>\n

Rather than bemoan the loss of a cosmic shot, I rolled down window and popped off a few frames with my old Leica IIIA.<\/p>\n

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Running and gunning old school: multitasking, I guessed the exposure (f11 1\/500 with HP5 rated at 320) and fixed the rangefinder to infinity. Click.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When you see a true photograph, act decisively\u2014no regrets.<\/p>\n

I wish I this clever in other areas.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Post Every Day.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Sorry, not the N&W J. The other day when photographer Mike Gardner and I were in hot pursuit of New England Central freight 611, and we saw this scene unfolding as we approached the Vermont-Massachusetts state line. The locomotives were catching the light against a dramatic sky in a wide-open landscape. Wonderful, but we were … Continue reading 611 on the Fly.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17884,"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":[3971,2205,29,81,154,3008],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NECR_611_Vernon\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601702.jpg?fit=1828%2C1093","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885"}],"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=17885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17886,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions\/17886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}