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Middletown Cruise Main Street: Part 2

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      The last post was all about the people.. this one is all about the cars, the power under hte hood.. and the rare sighting of a Dodge Challenger SRT Limo. I would love to see that thing in a test drive. What would the zero to 60 numbers be? What would the 60-0  be? How would it do in the slalom? No doubt the car might even do better than some of the older muscle cars before they were injected with modern technology and power.

Middletown Cruise Main Street: Pic of People Peeping Cars

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 I love taking pictures of cars. i'm going to go out on a limb, but in a lot of cases, adding people into the pictures makes it so much better. For instance, at this event in Middletown. There were literally hundreds of people willing to sweat it out on the first day of summer... (one of the hottest on record here in Connecticut.) I decided to focus on people loving cars instead of just the hot rods. I think I got some awesome shots. It's hard to get that moment when someone looks up and sees an awesome car. But what I got was a lot of people, seemingly, in deep thought about how much work when into these cars, the attention to detail and the original car-maker's craftsmanship. It's funny because people tend to be more aware than they think of cameras. As soon as they hear the camera click or see me hunch down, they stop in their tracks, or back out of the shot always assuming that they're messing up my shot. For the most part that is not the case. I think having ...