{"id":30228,"date":"2020-11-21T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30228"},"modified":"2020-11-20T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T22:55:25","slug":"mansfield-then-and-now-two-photos-34-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mansfield-then-and-now-two-photos-34-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield\u2014Then and Now\u2014Two Photos, 34 years."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My recent visit to Mansfield, Massachusetts led me to recall visits there back in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday evening, I started digging through my negative6s from 1985-1988, of which there are thousands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ritually worked with a Rollei Model T, exposing 120 size B&W roll film with a ‘Super Slide’ adapter that gave me 16 645-size negatives per individual roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 19, 1986, photographer Bob Karambelas and I visited Mansfield on a whirlwind rainy day tour of south eastern Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was more than a decade before the North East Corridor was electrified, and a dozen years prior to the demise of Conrail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve included a digital photo from my earlier post ‘Purple Trains’ and a single frame from a roll of Kodak Tri-X exposed on that day. I processed the Tri-X in Kodak D76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mansfield, Massachusetts on August 19, 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Almost the exact same location in November 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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My recent visit to Mansfield, Massachusetts led me to recall visits there back in the mid-1980s. Thursday evening, I started digging through my negative6s from 1985-1988, of which there are thousands. I ritually worked with a Rollei Model T, exposing 120 size B&W roll film with a ‘Super Slide’ adapter that gave me 16 645-size … Continue reading Mansfield\u2014Then and Now\u2014Two Photos, 34 years.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[5971,4537],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MBTA_HSP46_at_Mansfield_MA_.jpg?fit=1300%2C867","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7Ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30228"}],"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=30228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30232,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30228\/revisions\/30232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}