{"id":11053,"date":"2015-06-02T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2015-05-26T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:10:14","slug":"bostons-coolidge-corner-sunday-afternoon-in-mid-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bostons-coolidge-corner-sunday-afternoon-in-mid-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston’s Coolidge Corner\u2014Sunday Afternoon in mid-May."},"content":{"rendered":"

MBTA\u2019s Beacon Street line to Cleveland Circle is a classic median running trolley route. Coolidge Corner is situated on a gradient and a gentle curve with a traditional traction shelter and lots of trees that help make it a cool place to photograph.<\/p>\n

On our whirlwind tour of Boston transit a few weeks ago, Pat Yough and I spent a little while making photos here. The streetcars pass often, so in a relatively short period of time we were able to make a variety of angles.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
An outbound MBTA Green Line train on the Beacon Street line near Coolidge Corner. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Coolidge<\/a>
Coolidge Corner. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is one of the Green Line routes and some of the cars are in the 1970s-era green and white livery, while others are in a more modern teal and silver. I find the older livery photographs better.<\/p>\n

Personally, I preferred the days when the PCC\u2019s ruled this route, but those days are long gone. It\u2019s still an interesting place to experiment with different camera-lens combinations.<\/p>\n

\"Using<\/a>
Using my Lumix LX7 I made this very low-angle view of an outbound streetcar. The Lumix LX7 offers great depth of field, which allows for photos like this. I like the blade of grass at the far lower right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Vertical<\/a>
Vertical view of an outbound car exposed with my Fujifilm X-T1 with 18-135mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The classic transit shelter provides added interest and a bit of historical context. This isn’t a modern light rail line, but rather a traditional trolley route operating modern cars. Fujifilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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MBTA\u2019s Beacon Street line to Cleveland Circle is a classic median running trolley route. Coolidge Corner is situated on a gradient and a gentle curve with a traditional traction shelter and lots of trees that help make it a cool place to photograph. On our whirlwind tour of Boston transit a few weeks ago, Pat … Continue reading Boston’s Coolidge Corner\u2014Sunday Afternoon in mid-May.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11050,"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":[2725,104,790,236,814,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MBTA_Beacon_Street_at_Coolidge_Corner_P1220906.jpg?fit=700%2C467&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2Sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}