{"id":20290,"date":"2018-01-28T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20290"},"modified":"2018-01-27T03:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T08:50:39","slug":"jim-shaughnessy-with-his-latest-book-essential-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jim-shaughnessy-with-his-latest-book-essential-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Shaughnessy with his latest book: Essential Witness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I visited with Jim Shaughnessy, who shared with me his latest book <em>Essential Witness<\/em> that features some of his finest vintage black &amp; white photographs.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve enjoyed this wonderful book, not only for the exceptionally well composed images of railroading, and its beautiful black &amp; white reproduction but because Jim has photographed in many of the same places that I often make my own images.<\/p>\n<p>This gives me a greater perspective and appreciation for both railroading and railroad photography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20287\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jim-shaughnessy-with-his-latest-book-essential-witness\/brian_solomon_53601102\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601102.jpg?fit=1795%2C1114\" data-orig-size=\"1795,1114\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601102.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20286\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jim-shaughnessy-with-his-latest-book-essential-witness\/brian_solomon_53601106\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601106.jpg?fit=1113%2C1797\" data-orig-size=\"1113,1797\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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using my Nikon F3 with 50mm lens. Keeping with tradition, I exposed Kodak Tri-X processed in Ilford Perceptol stock.<\/p>\n<p>Jim is selling signed copies of his book. You may contact Jim via email at: JShaughnessy@nycap.rr.com<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I visited with Jim Shaughnessy, who shared with me his latest book Essential Witness that features some of his finest vintage black &amp; white photographs. I\u2019ve enjoyed this wonderful book, not only for the exceptionally well composed images of railroading, and its beautiful black &amp; white reproduction but because Jim has photographed in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jim-shaughnessy-with-his-latest-book-essential-witness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Shaughnessy with his latest book: Essential Witness.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20287,"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":[4542,3814,4537,3368,3063],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601102.jpg?fit=1795%2C1114","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290"}],"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=20290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20291,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions\/20291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}