{"id":28963,"date":"2020-04-13T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:37:02","slug":"an-sd45-emerges-from-the-mists-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/an-sd45-emerges-from-the-mists-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"An SD45 Emerges from the Mists of Time."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just now I was searching for another photo, and I came across this scan from a 35mm black &amp; white negative that I exposed in June 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28964\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/an-sd45-emerges-from-the-mists-of-time\/east-deerfield-june-1989-b-solomon-064\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1605\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1605\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?fit=709%2C444\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?fit=474%2C297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?resize=474%2C297\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28964\" width=\"474\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?w=2560 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?resize=709%2C444 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?resize=1022%2C641 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?resize=205%2C129 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C963 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1284 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was on a routine trip to East Deerfield. It was a foggy morning, as mists clung to the Connecticut River Valley and over Boston &amp; Maine\u2019s sprawling yards behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was standing at the famous \u2018Railfans Bridge\u2019 where countless thousands of photos were exposed over the years (and that\u2019s just my personal collection, not to mention all the photos made by countless other photographers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was working with my father\u2019s M3 fitted with a 90mm Leitz telephoto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, a long-hood forward SD45 at this common location probably didn\u2019t rate my A-list. Yet any SD45 on the move would have warranted my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the old B&amp;M phone box to the left of the locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I revue my old photos, I am routinely surprised how the common has become cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#1d5ee1\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\">Tracking the Light Looks Back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a foggy morning, as mists clung to the Connecticut River Valley and over Boston &#038; Maine\u2019s sprawling yards behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28964,"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],"tags":[6245,5035,5154,3952,5039,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/East-Deerfield-June-1989-B-solomon-064-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1605","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7x9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963"}],"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=28963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28965,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions\/28965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}