{"id":40493,"date":"2024-11-12T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40493"},"modified":"2024-11-11T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T00:12:07","slug":"fish-chips-and-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fish-chips-and-serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish &#038; Chips and Serendipity."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the evening, as we were leaving Seafood Sam&#8217;s in Sandwich, Massachusetts, a horn blast announced the passage of Mass Coastal&#8217;s &#8216;Energy Train&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This short freight carries garbage from a loading point near Yarmouth Port to an off-Cape incinerator near Rochester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We jumped in the car and Kris navigated our way to the old New Haven station in Buzzards Bay near the west end of the massive Cape Cod Canal lift bridge. The ghostly presence of the mighty span loomed beyond in the gloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I set up my Z7-II on my mini Gitzo tripod as the headlights of the freight illuminated the girders of the lift span. With my camera set to ISO 6400 and 12,800 for better low-light capture, I made this series of the train passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"40495\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fish-chips-and-serendipity\/mass-coastal_w_buzzards_bay_bridge_dsc_2654\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mass-Coastal_w_Buzzards_Bay_Bridge_DSC_2654.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 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