{"id":26874,"date":"2019-05-24T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26874"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:21:54","slug":"diamond-in-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/diamond-in-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond in the Dust."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Here\u2019s another photo from the darkest depths of my archives, hidden away for decades and scanned on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a technical standpoint it is not a great photo. It was never meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I exposed this view in 1978. I was aged 12 and the diamond on a curved section of track caught my interest so I photographed what I saw. The making of this image is not more complicated than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I remember it: this view shows some disused industrial\/yard trackage on the periphery of the former Boston & Maine\/Rutland yard in Bellows Falls, Vermont. I exposed the photo on trip to visit Steamtown and Bellows Falls with my family. I seem to remember insisting that my parents stop the car so I could make the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m happy that I had the foresight to expose this photo, but I wish that I could have documented this odd scrap of track in a more effective way. Yet that\u2019s a lot to ask of a 12 year old with a camera!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not every photo wins a prize, but some age better than others!
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Exposed on Kodak Ektachrome 200 using a Leica 3A with an f2.0 50mm Summitar lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s another photo from the darkest depths of my archives, hidden away for decades and scanned on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[4514,5704,4537,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BM_GMRR_Bellows_Falls_Vt_diamond_trackage_in_yard_autumn1978\u00a9BrianSolomon_593110.jpg?fit=1000%2C677","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6Zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26874"}],"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=26874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26876,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26874\/revisions\/26876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}