{"id":26595,"date":"2019-05-03T19:11:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2019-05-03T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T00:29:02","slug":"portrait-view-boeing-silhouette-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/portrait-view-boeing-silhouette-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait-View: Boeing Silhouette on the Streets of San Francisco."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>If this image seems familiar, it is because it\u2019s been published on several occasions, first in Passenger Train Journal issue 210 in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is among my favorite view of the San Francisco Muni light rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with my old Nikon F3T and a 200mm f4 lens, I made this photo of an in-bound L-Taraval car (worked by a 1970s-era Boeing-Vertol LRV) as it crested Ulloa Street on its way down toward West Portal in early December 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarkable consideration is that this is a Kodachrome 25 slide. My shutter speed was about 1\/60<sup>th<\/sup>of a second. When I lived in San Francisco, I had an un-cropped hand-printed Type R print of this scene pinned to my wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"692\" data-attachment-id=\"26596\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/portrait-view-boeing-silhouette-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco\/san_francisco_muni_lrv_15th_and_ulloa_dec1990_200mm_k25briansolomon_592820\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/San_Francisco_Muni_LRV_15th_and_Ulloa_Dec1990_200mm_K25\u00a9BrianSolomon_592820.jpg?fit=822%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"822,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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