{"id":8843,"date":"2014-11-02T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2014-11-02T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:27:11","slug":"brians-black-and-white-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brians-black-and-white-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian&#8217;s &#8220;black and white challenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Csorna, Hungary, August 2003.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8844\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/11\/02\/brians-black-and-white-challenge\/mav-tracks-at-csorna-hungary_2003-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8844\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8844\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brians-black-and-white-challenge\/mav-tracks-at-csorna-hungary_2003-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?fit=750%2C757\" data-orig-size=\"750,757\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a92003\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The sun sets over electrified MAV tracks at Csorna, Hungary in August 2003. Photo by Brian Solomon.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?fit=532%2C537\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?fit=474%2C479\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8844\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?resize=474%2C478\" alt=\"The sun sets over electrified MAV tracks at Csorna, Hungary in August 2003. Photo by Brian Solomon.\" width=\"474\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?w=750 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?resize=148%2C150 148w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?resize=532%2C537 532w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?resize=717%2C724 717w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?resize=297%2C300 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets over electrified MAV tracks at Csorna, Hungary in August 2003. Photo by Brian Solomon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In response to Otto Vondrak&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;black and white challenge&#8221; on Facebook, I decided to post this black &amp; white image via my blog Tracking the Light (http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I exposed\u00a0the image\u00a0on black &amp; white film using my Rolleiflex Model T and processed it chemically in my sink on Synge Street in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>I admit, I&#8217;m neither\u00a0clear on the details nor the purpose of the Facebook &#8216;black &amp; white challenge&#8217;, but with more than four decades of black &amp; white negatives in my file, I figured &#8216;why not&#8217;. 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In response to Otto Vondrak&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;black and white challenge&#8221; on Facebook, I decided to post this black &amp; white image via my blog Tracking the Light (http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/).\u00a0 I exposed\u00a0the image\u00a0on black &amp; white film using my Rolleiflex Model T and processed it chemically in my sink on Synge Street in Dublin. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brians-black-and-white-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian&#8217;s &#8220;black and white challenge&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8844,"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":[2409,411,418,2410],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MAV-tracks-at-Csorna-Hungary_\u00a920031.jpg?fit=750%2C757","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2iD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843"}],"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=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8847,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions\/8847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}