{"id":40932,"date":"2025-01-09T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40932"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:06:03","slug":"reflections-while-waiting-for-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reflections-while-waiting-for-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections while waiting for The Ocean."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This isn’t about one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs\u2014althought it could be . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the eve of my 38th birthday, I gazed across the Peel Basin on the Lachine Canal in Montreal toward the rising autumn sun. Photographer Tim Doherty and I were on the last day of an epic trip to Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we awaited the arrival of VIA Rail’s The Ocean <\/em>from Halifax, I worked with my Contax G2 rangefinder to compose a view of the grain elevators on the far side of the water, making the most of the reflections in the still morning light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This slide was among the hundreds from that trip that had sat in the dark until a few days ago. One of the benefits of film is that you can leave processed images unattended for decades without risk of losing them to a hard drive failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My pictures of the long distance Budd train are pretty nice too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fujichrome slide exposed using a Contax G2 rangefinder on October 24, 2004.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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