{"id":40893,"date":"2025-01-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40893"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:20:14","slug":"happy-new-year-from-tracking-the-light-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/happy-new-year-from-tracking-the-light-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from Tracking the Light!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 1, 1995, I spent the day traveling around Chicago on the CTA with my brother Sean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of a few photos that I made on Ektachrome with my Nikkormat FTN fitted with an f2.8 135mm lens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although, I took notes on the day, I didn&#8217;t write the details on this color slide. A reader has told me  it was exposed north of the Loop from a footbridge at Belmont station  on the Brown\/Purple Lines. 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