{"id":18123,"date":"2017-03-23T06:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18123"},"modified":"2017-03-23T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:53:59","slug":"the-secret-muse-seeking-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-secret-muse-seeking-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Muse\u2014Seeking Vision."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s key to a secret, one tightly held: More often than not I make photographs for a specific audience.<\/p>\n<p>This has myriad manifests. It may be something as simple as photographing a friend\u2019s favorite locomotive, or capturing a location once shared by a fellow photographer.<\/p>\n<p>However, often it goes deeper. I\u2019ll aim to capture a scene by working with light, shapes and subject in a way that I <em>hope<\/em> will appeal to a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I\u2019ll simply forward these photos directly to the person in question. To my father, I\u2019ll send photos from my travels in Europe, to my mother, I\u2019ll email photos of my friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p>I might forward an image to an editor that I made to pique\u00a0their interest.<\/p>\n<p>If I score something really unusual, I might goad a fellow photographer hoping to push them into exposing a similar or better photograph.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18122\" style=\"width: 1654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18122\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-secret-muse-seeking-vision\/buoi-w-cameron-4-88-mod-1-solomon-photo-x1000210\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?fit=1654%2C1209\" data-orig-size=\"1654,1209\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1281649655&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BUOI W Cameron 4 88 Mod-1 Solomon photo X1000210\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;In April 1988, I made this photograph of Conrail&#8217;s BUOI working east through the Canisteo Valley near West Cameron, New York. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?fit=709%2C518\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?fit=474%2C346\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18122\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?resize=474%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?w=1654 1654w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?resize=205%2C150 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?resize=709%2C518 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?resize=1022%2C747 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April 1988, I made this photograph of Conrail&#8217;s BUOI working east through the Canisteo Valley near West Cameron, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet, often my very best photographs are those that I make to fulfill a personal ideal.<\/p>\n<p><em>What?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ok, my most successful images are those I made to please me.<\/p>\n<p>One last secret. I rarely publish these.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because I don\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s key to a secret, one tightly held: More often than not I make photographs for a specific audience. This has myriad manifests. It may be something as simple as photographing a friend\u2019s favorite locomotive, or capturing a location once shared by a fellow photographer. However, often it goes deeper. I\u2019ll aim to capture a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/the-secret-muse-seeking-vision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Secret Muse\u2014Seeking Vision.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18121,"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":true,"_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":[3814,4113,4114,51,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BUOI-W-Cameron-4-88-Mod-1-Solomon-photo-X1000210-2.jpg?fit=1790%2C1116","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18123"}],"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=18123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18151,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18123\/revisions\/18151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}