{"id":7221,"date":"2014-06-15T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2014-06-12T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:31:17","slug":"brian-solomons-the-twilight-of-steam-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brian-solomons-the-twilight-of-steam-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Solomon\u2019s The Twilight of Steam, Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

John E. Pickett, Steam Hunter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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John Pickett with his Graflex in July 2013. Photo by Brian Solomon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John E. Pickett is among the great photographers I featured in my book The Twilight of Steam. A life long friend of Jim Shaughnessy (also featured), John has had the opportunity to photograph steam locomotives all across North America.<\/p>\n

In the 1940s, he was fortunate to grow up in Canajoharie, New York, located just across the Mohawk River from New York Central\u2019s four-track mainline at Palentine Bridge. His early experiences watching the parade of Hudsons, Mohawks, and Niagaras working the Water Level Route inspired him to make wonderful photographs of locomotives at work before diesels took over.<\/p>\n

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John’s early New York Central photos were exposed with 616 Kodak Monitor but he later bought a National Graflex that had a relatively fast Bausch & Lomb f3.5 lens and 1\/500th of a second top shutter speed, and then a Series B Graflex with a top shutter speed of 1\/1000th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Twilight of Steam features dozens of\u00a0John’s\u00a0images and tells of his experiences and techniques.<\/p>\n

The Twilight of Steam\u00a0<\/em><\/a>was published by\u00a0Voyageur Press<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>and will be available from June 15, 2014.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be revealing more about the book over the next few days! Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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