Some friends and I briefly toyed around with the idea of making a MR Geo Metro using a Cadillac Northstar V8.....

To be perfectly honest, POTN is probably the last place I'd recommend a photo greenhorn to go. The "community" absolutely thrives on sackriding eachother and "harsh" (read: honest) critique of images often leads to a ban.

500px is a fantastic site. It's not a photo-dump like Flickr, but a place where you post your best shot. Not a ton of shots that were sort of interesting and half-in-focus, but your very best shot.

The thing I enjoy the most about my X100 is the absolutely astounding viewfinder. No EVF in the world will ever give you the immediacy of a true optical window, but when you can overlay EVF info on to an optical screen like Fuji has figured out how to do. . . whoa.

I've never encountered a website that causes my entire browser to lock up for 3-5 seconds while it loads.

During the 1998 wildfires, my family was forced to evacuate our home. All of the local hotels were booked up, and so the only place we really had to go was my grandmother's house.

Xenon/HID headlights. Halogen bulbs might as well be whale oil lanterns in comparison.

The ground glass doesn't give an accurate representation of exposure- it's just a tool for composition.

However, while 8x10 print/transparency film is expensive it's still readily available, unlike Polaroid.

That will happen too.

Meanwhile, in Florida. . . .

Man, talk about needlessly dramatic music!

Beat me to it.

Your best bet would be to purchase an intervalometer like the Pearstone Shutterboss (50 bucks or so at B&H). That'll allow you to set the camera up to make an exposure every xx seconds as the D3100 doesn't have this feature built in like some of the other Nikon cameras.

If you're stacking frames, you can see the point of rotation after 4-5 shots. Doing a continuous exposure is a bit more on the "cross your fingers and check it in an hour" side of things.

Woot! Thanks for the star!

I've been shooting these for a number of years now, had one of my shots featured in the shooting challenges (Hyperfocal Photos), and have been teaching workshops on this kind of photography.

I actually walked by it parked on Spring Street last night. Honestly, it looks fantastic in person.

The garage is on the West side of the river, but located in East Daytona on Beach Street, 2 blocks from Mason Ave, where there is a DBFD station literally 2 miles away.

Living in the greater Daytona Beach area, an area that "celebrates" their racing heritage so much, there have been some pretty lousy attempts at preserving it. This event reminds me of the original Ormond Garage and how it "mysteriously burned down" only to be bought up and developed all-too-quickly thereafter.