How I spend my last Saturdays of each month

[kabel]

For anyone in the central FL area, the next Orlando Cars and Café meet is this Saturday Sept 25, 2010
Presented by the Orlando Automotive Club

Date: Saturday, Sept 25, 2010
Time: 9am - 12pm
Location: Rout 46 Entertainment District - 4316 W. State Road 46, Sanford, Florida 32771

Visit the Orlando Automotive Club site for additional information and pics from the past events. And below is a link to my collection of photos from past meets: Orlando Cars & Cafe Photo collection

[kabel]

Another month, another meet. The weather was not great and that kept people away, however, lots of Porsche cars showed up

link to the full set: Orlando Cars and Café Nov 27, 2010 Photos *

few samples:








*so why are the html code links not working properly?

[KellyC]

Wow - You are quite talented with a camera - even if you do have some amazing subjects! Nice work! I especially like the ones like the white NSX and the Viper beneath it. Very cool focus effect!

Regardless of the photography, that yellow Ferrari is about as beautiful of a car as I have ever seen. I first saw one in person last summer in Italy. They are very drool worthy!

There is a cars & cafe even in MN as well, but I've never seen quite the automotive talent that you get in Orlando. Occassional Porsche Carrera GT, maybe a Lamborghini Murcielago, and loads of Corvettes, lesser Ferraris, Porsches, etc. But not nearly to that level of quantity and quality.

[kabel]

Many thanks for the kind words, photography is a hobby I truly enjoy.

It is amazing the variety of premium cars we have show up each month, even with a low turn out like we had this past weekend (aprx 40 cars versus the usual average of 90 cars).

I was working with a 45mm prime tilt-shift lens again this time (full manual and no image stabilization). That enabled some of that odd focus/depth-of-field effect like on the white NSX you noticed.

BTW, The Minneapolis MN Cars and Cafe is our sister club actually. I've seen photos from their meets and I must say they have a great variety of amazing cars too! A shame you cannot meet year round

[kabel]

Here is a link to photos from the December Orlando Cars and Café meet, Toys for Tots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kabelphoto/sets/72157625501505751/

Despite the weather, I would say the OAC Toys for Tots toy drive was a great success. Below are samples from the set:












Bit of a downer when the rain came in, but we still had a good meet