{"id":792,"date":"2012-12-13T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=792"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:17:50","slug":"railroad-in-a-modern-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/railroad-in-a-modern-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad in a Modern Environment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Wednesday Dec 12, 2012) I made productive use of winter light while photographing between Ayer, Fitchburg and Gardner, Massachusetts. Where many of my images focused on the railroad, delineating it from its surroundings, on reviewing my work, this scene at Gardner caught my eye. Here, almost lost in a modern setting, is the hood of a GP40-2L with only \u2018Rail System\u2019 helping to identify this transportation hardware in virtual visual geometric patchwork quilt. Is this how most of the world perceives railways? I wonder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2012\/12\/13\/railroad-in-a-modern-environment\/rail_system_in_carpark_gardner_img_2898brian_solomon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"793\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/railroad-in-a-modern-environment\/rail_system_in_carpark_gardner_img_2898brian_solomon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?fit=1024%2C683\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1355335139&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Guilford_Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;GP40-2L lost in a modern urban-scape.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Canon 7D with f2.8 200mm lens; ISO 400, f6.3 at 1\/1000 second.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?fit=512%2C341\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793\" alt=\"Canon 7D with f2.8 200mm lens; ISO 400, f6.3 at 1\/1000 second.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?resize=512%2C341 512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?resize=449%2C300 449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rail_System_in_CarPark_Gardner_IMG_2898\u00a9Brian_Solomon.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canon 7D with f2.8 200mm lens; ISO 400, f6.3 at 1\/1000 second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Wednesday Dec 12, 2012) I made productive use of winter light while photographing between Ayer, Fitchburg and Gardner, Massachusetts. Where many of my images focused on the railroad, delineating it from its surroundings, on reviewing my work, this scene at Gardner caught my eye. Here, almost lost in a modern setting, is the hood &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/railroad-in-a-modern-environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Railroad in a Modern Environment?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,4537,50,37,7535,107],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-cM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}