{"id":21371,"date":"2018-06-11T06:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T10:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21371"},"modified":"2018-06-10T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T13:04:27","slug":"amtraks-vermonter-with-american-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtraks-vermonter-with-american-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak’s Vermonter with American Flags."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a grab shot; I didn\u2019t have time to do what I intended (and the sun went in).<\/p>\n

We arrived at the small cemetery at West Northfield, Massachusetts minutes before Amtrak 56 (northward Vermonter). <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The brush along the railroad has recently been cut. Unfortunately, a brush cutting\/removal machine was awkwardly (as in non-photographically) positioned by the tracks, foiling my intend angle for a photo. I was going to try \u2018plan b\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d heard the crew call \u2018Approach\u2019 for East Northfield, I was hoping for time to swap to a wide angle lens, when I saw the headlight.<\/p>\n

No time: so instead, I hastily composed this vertical view using my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/p>\n

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The front of the locomotive is nearly centered. I wonder if I should have let it move a bit more to the left for a more effective composition?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I like the American flags, placed for Memorial Day. I wonder about my placement of the front of the locomotive relative to the gap in the brush. Should I have let the locomotive continue a few more feet to the left?<\/p>\n

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This is a grab shot; I didn\u2019t have time to do what I intended (and the sun went in). We arrived at the small cemetery at West Northfield, Massachusetts minutes before Amtrak 56 (northward Vermonter). \u00a0The brush along the railroad has recently been cut. Unfortunately, a brush cutting\/removal machine was awkwardly (as in non-photographically) positioned … Continue reading Amtrak’s Vermonter with American Flags.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21373,"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":[4743,4742,4744,4745,31,522,7535,1481],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Amtrak_Vermonter_train_56_East_Northfield_MA_DSCF8987-1.jpg?fit=1155%2C1732","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5yH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371"}],"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=21371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21374,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions\/21374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}