{"id":20407,"date":"2018-02-17T05:51:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T10:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20407"},"modified":"2018-02-16T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:56:48","slug":"belfast-great-victoria-street-in-four-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/belfast-great-victoria-street-in-four-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Great Victoria Street in four Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans are afoot to redevelop Belfast\u2019s railway hubs. With this in mind, the other day I made a few views around Great Victoria Street Station to document the way it looks now, before the changes.<\/p>\n

Documentation is a large part of my photography, and it always helps to anticipate change.<\/p>\n

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NI Railways CAF-built trains at Belfast Great Victoria Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Among Belfast’s infamous icons is the Europa Hotel seen here above NI Railway’s CAF railcars at Great Victoria Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was a rainy morning when I exposed this view with my Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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0710 (710am) train to Derry on platform 2 at Great Victoria Street. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I look back with satisfaction at photographs I made in the 1980s at Boston\u2019s South Station that show the terminal before it evolved into the modern transportation center that it is today.<\/p>\n

Yet, I also regret not making better images of the classic semaphores at South Station that controlled train movements at the terminal.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Looks Back to Look Forward.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Plans are afoot to redevelop Belfast\u2019s railway hubs. With this in mind, the other day I made a few views around Great Victoria Street Station to document the way it looks now, before the changes. Documentation is a large part of my photography, and it always helps to anticipate change. I look back with satisfaction … Continue reading Belfast Great Victoria Street in four Views<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20406,"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":[4557,1139,3502,1620,1621],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NIR_Great_Victoria_Street_P1720617.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5j9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407"}],"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=20407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20408,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407\/revisions\/20408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}