{"id":3481,"date":"2013-08-29T05:44:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T09:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2013-08-08T04:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T08:52:58","slug":"belfast-moosehead-lake-unity-maine-august-29-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/belfast-moosehead-lake-unity-maine-august-29-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast & Moosehead Lake, Unity, Maine, August 29, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"

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27 Years Ago Today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a pleasant and memorable week photographing in Maine in August 1986.This was shortly before I began my studies at the Rochester Institute of Photography, and represented a moment of visual freedom, unburdened by demands of professors, intellectual assumptions, or assignment deadlines.<\/p>\n

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A Belfast & Moosehead Lake General Electric 70ton diesel leads a short freight on poor track near Unity, Maine on August 29, 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On August 29th<\/sup>, Brandon Delaney and I had photographed the Maine Central. At Burnham Junction we stumbled upon the Belfast & Moosehead Lake working the Maine Central interchange.<\/p>\n

Although this wasn\u2019t my first experience with B&ML, I was delighted to catch this elusive operation at work. We chased the train back toward Unity. I made this image featuring a classic farm with barn and silos.<\/p>\n

I exposed it on 35mm Kodachrome slide film using a Leica M2 with 200mm Leitz Telyt telephoto lens mounted with a bellows using a Visoflex viewfinder arrangement on a compact Linhof Tripod. Although cumbersome, this was my standard arrangement for making long telephoto views. Exposure was calculated manually using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe handheld light meter (photo cell).<\/p>\n

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