{"id":9884,"date":"2015-02-07T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2015-01-31T22:10:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:10:49","slug":"soviet-electric-at-koupio-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/soviet-electric-at-koupio-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Electric at Koupio, Finland."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I visited a variety of cities on my travels in Finland in early September 2001. One dull afternoon I was in Koupio changing trains.<\/p>\n<p>An express passenger train was due in from Helsinki, so I made my way to the west-end of the station platform where I exposed this view of a 1970s-era Soviet-built Sr1 electric.<\/p>\n<p>Using my Rollei model T, I opted for a low-angle to add a sense of drama to the arriving train. My primary interest was this relic of Soviet railway technology, so I allowed it to get as close as possible before releasing the shutter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9885\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/02\/07\/soviet-electric-at-koupio-finland\/vr-sr1-electric-at-koupio-f\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9885\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/soviet-electric-at-koupio-finland\/vr-sr1-electric-at-koupio-f\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?fit=750%2C772\" data-orig-size=\"750,772\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed with a Rolleiflex Model T with 75mm f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens. Exposure calculated manually.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?fit=522%2C537\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?fit=474%2C488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9885\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?resize=474%2C488\" alt=\"Exposed with a Rolleiflex Model T with 75mm f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens. Exposure calculated manually.\" width=\"474\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?w=750 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?resize=146%2C150 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?resize=522%2C537 522w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?resize=703%2C724 703w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?resize=291%2C300 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed with a Rolleiflex Model T with 75mm f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens. Exposure calculated manually.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American with German camera photographs Soviet-built electric in Finland! Yea!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0posts\u00a0new\u00a0material\u00a0every\u00a0morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please share\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a><\/strong><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited a variety of cities on my travels in Finland in early September 2001. One dull afternoon I was in Koupio changing trains. An express passenger train was due in from Helsinki, so I made my way to the west-end of the station platform where I exposed this view of a 1970s-era Soviet-built Sr1 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/soviet-electric-at-koupio-finland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soviet Electric at Koupio, Finland.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9885,"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":[3814,2566,2430,2565,2564,2428],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VR-SR1-electric-at-Koupio-F.jpg?fit=750%2C772","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2zq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884"}],"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=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9887,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions\/9887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}