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Let the Car Shows begin! Lake Wheeler, Raleigh

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         Some guys look forward to the next baseball, football or basketball game... I look forward to church and the next car show. I don't know what it is about cars that I like so much. not fair, lol, this guy drove to the car show in this     No, I know exactly what it is. It's the sight and sound and feeling that they give you. Since I don't have my own, I'll have to live vicariously through other car owners.. capturing their love for cars. To keep it 100% with y'all, ... if I had a classic car, i don't think I'd be one of the car owners that goes to a car show to show off my car, but i would drive my classic... "heavy chevy" out there. Anyway, those are just dreams right now.       So, this is my trip to the Fun in The Sun charity car show put on by Corvettes International in Raleigh. It was held at Lake Wheeler Park. You don't see the lake in any of these pictures but trust me its a beautiful park. Yup, that's an old sc...

Project 52: Week 3 Review - Circles, Contrast & Metal

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So, this week's theme was easy, but at the same time it wasn't easy. Circles, Contrast and Metal are everywhere. My original thought and intention was to go around and take pictures of every metal circle that i could find... but I resisted that impulse. Why? because I would end up with just another group of so-so pictures. Instead, my ultimate goal with this project is to take pictures that are good enough to enlarge and mount on someone's wall somewhere.      So, the first pictures that I took on this theme were of a rotunda/traffic circle on NC State's Campus. There are a bunch of annoying, interesting, and well place rotunda's on this campus. I was actually standing on top of a wall at about 11:30 at night taking this picture. Unfortunately this wasn't one of those time when I was carrying my tripod with me. I would have loved to have created a longer tail-light and headline trail for this shot. Maybe I'll go back one night. To combat the unsharpn...