{"id":41139,"date":"2025-02-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41139"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:33:55","slug":"lowell-massachusetts-august-20-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/lowell-massachusetts-august-20-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowell, Massachusetts\u2014August 20, 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sun and clouds. I aimed my Leica M2 at MBTA 905, a former New Haven Railroad GP9 with a complicated lineage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like the contrast of the silver locomotive against an old factory shadowed by a cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an image characteristic of Kodachrome. This  film  rendered excellent color in bright sunlight, but tended to result in dark  images in cloudy conditions, which was function of its reduced sensativity to the blue spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"695\" data-attachment-id=\"41140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/lowell-massachusetts-august-20-1987\/mbta_905_at-lowell_ma_aug20-1987_kmbrian_solomon_122714\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?fit=1397%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1397,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1739134420&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9BrianSolomon&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=\"MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?fit=484%2C709&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?fit=474%2C695&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?resize=474%2C695&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?w=1397&amp;ssl=1 1397w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?resize=484%2C709&amp;ssl=1 484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?resize=697%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 697w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?resize=102%2C150&amp;ssl=1 102w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?resize=1048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Full frame photo. Note the curved corners which are a function of the cardboard slide mount.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an image characteristic of Kodachrome film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5186,8207],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MBTA_905_at-Lowell_MA_Aug20-1987_KM\u00a9Brian_Solomon_122714-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1288&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aHx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41139"}],"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=41139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41164,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41139\/revisions\/41164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}