I literally entered a different photo less than 30 minutes before I changed my mind. I thought I had a great photo (and according to my wife, I did), but then I edited this one taken a little later in the day, and I was more blown away! I asked my wife which is better, and she couldn't decide (thanks for the help!). In the end, I like how this turned out with the repeating elements, the details, and the story.
I was driving home when I passed the local frozen custard joint. Surprisingly there was a group of older people with their classic cars. I definitely had to stop as this isn't something you see every day. I grabbed a number of shots at different angles, with this one turing out to be the best of the bunch.
Post Processing:
* Combine 3 exposures in Nik HDR Efex Pro (B&W conversion happened here)
* Clone out lamp post in background
* Increase exposure and recovery
* Decrease black point
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast and definition
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG
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Lovely control of the B/W medium, nice crisp focus and depth
there seems to be either two ariels or a couple of lines just comming up from the second car back which catch the eye a bit too much and irritate. A bit of cloning out might have helped here. otherwise lovely picture
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