On Saturday Leslie and I took the kids to the Texas Motor Speedway for the Goodguys 2007 Hot Rod Car Show.  It's a car show centered round any vehicle 1972 and older.  However, the fact they say 1972 and older just means the body of the car!  Many of these vehicles had interiors and powertrains from much newer cars. In fact, some of the vehicles were so modified I honestly couldn't tell what they started out life as without looking at their tags.  There was a 1950's Ford Truck that had a complete S-10 interior and powertrain.  It was quite cool. To the right is a picture I took under the hood of a 1972 Chevrolet Pickup.  As you can tel it's the motor from a late model Chevrolet Corvette!!  This was one hot truck.  Check out my photo gallery for about a hundred more pictures I took.

Speaking of pictures, one of the things that has really started to pop with me about photography is angles.  I've known this for a long time, but I've really not been able to explain to people why some of my pictures look so different from the average Joe's.  Someone asked me yesterday "How do you take such good pictures?  Is it your camera?"  Well, honestly a good camera can help, but if you just stand in front of a car and snap a picture, it is going to look just like a snapshot taken by the average Joe.  The only different being its an 8 mega-pixel picture with great color pickup.  To take really good pictures, you need to take pictures from angles and positions that the average person doesn't think about.  That means getting down lower, or up higher than the standard "standing" position.  Also, you need to be prepared to get out PhotoShop and crop the image once you get home.  Many times, due to lens limitations, or other obstacles, you can't get the frame you wanted.  So just take the picture, come home and crop out the unwanted area.