{"id":4195,"date":"2013-10-25T05:42:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2013-10-24T18:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:30:28","slug":"east-brookfield-station-october-25-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/east-brookfield-station-october-25-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"East Brookfield Station, October 25, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Look at an Old Boston & Albany Station.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On the Morning of October 25, 2009, I brought my brand new Lumix LX3 out for a test run. I had just received my first digital camera and this was a trial to see if it was any good.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d bought it on the recommendation of Eric Rosenthal. My initial hope for the camera was to use as a light meter and to make photos of friends.<\/p>\n

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East Brookfield, Massachusetts looking west on October 25, 2009\u2014four years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That morning I drove to East Brookfield and made this image of the old Boston & Albany station. Two eastward trains came by and I photographed those on film, not trusting the new purchase for anything important.<\/p>\n

I later drove around making photos of local architecture in the autumn color. I soon found that the LX3 was an extremely powerful tool capable of very sharp images and useful for making a great variety of railway photos.<\/p>\n

Approximately 11 months later, I received a phone call from Dennis LeBeau of the East Brookfield Historic Society: the station had been torched by vandals and gutted. For another year or so the skeletal remains of the building remained trackside as a sad reminder of what had been.<\/p>\n

This Lumix image is exactly four years old today. In the interval, since I made this image I\u2019ve released the LX3\u2019s shutter more than 15,000 times.<\/p>\n

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