{"id":36316,"date":"2023-06-11T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=36316"},"modified":"2023-06-10T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T22:18:10","slug":"view-from-the-observation-car-looking-back-at-north-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/view-from-the-observation-car-looking-back-at-north-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"View from the Observation Car-looking back at North Conway."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of May, I was traveling on the back platform of Conway Scenic&#8217;s 125-year old open observation car <em>Gertrude Emma <\/em>on its morning run to Conway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with my Z6 fitted with 70-200mm lens, I made this pair of trailing views looking back at the iconic North Conway Station. Both images were made with the lens set at 200m and the aperture at f2.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"36319\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/view-from-the-observation-car-looking-back-at-north-conway\/north_conway_station_dsc_7975\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/North_Conway_station_DSC_7975.jpg?fit=1700%2C1131\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1131\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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Yesterday, Kris and I watched as movers loaded our belongings into a truck. By the time you read this we will be on our way to our new home in Pennsylvania.  I&#8217;ll still work for Conway Scenic, albeit remotely via internet and phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#256116\"><strong>Tracking Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of May, I was traveling on the back platform of Conway Scenic&#8217;s 125-year old open observation car Gertrude Emma on its morning run to Conway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36319,"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":[6060,10],"tags":[5754],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/North_Conway_station_DSC_7975.jpg?fit=1700%2C1131","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-9rK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316"}],"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=36316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36321,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions\/36321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}