{"id":38235,"date":"2024-02-07T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38235"},"modified":"2024-02-04T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T23:39:48","slug":"on-the-pier-at-searsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-the-pier-at-searsport\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Pier at Searsport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Among my black & white negatives from years gone by, is a sheet of 16 frames of 120 Kodak Tri-X that I exposed using my father’s old Rolleiflex Model-T in August of 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d spent a week in Maine visiting with my friend Robert A. Buck, proprietor of Tucker’s Hobbies in Warren, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his other guests was photographer Brandon Delaney. During our visit, Brandon and I spent several days exploring Maine railways, including Bangor & Aroostook, Belfast & Moosehead Lake, Canadian Pacific and Maine Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a visit to Searsport, I made this photo of the freight that ran four or five days a week from Northern Maine Junction (near Bangor) to Searsport. The locomotives were working trackage that served the Searsport Pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film was precious. I only brought a few rolls of 35mm Kodachrome and several 120 rolls of black & white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scene was back-lit, but I felt it was sufficiently worthy to invest one frame. I scanned it the other day and made a few improvements to contrast, eliminated some spots and scaled the output for presentation here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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