Premium Photo Competition 2012 Q2 : Entry Number 258

All the yellow cabs are so New York! Nice angle and composition. Is it real or is this photo taken from a model scene? Would work very well as a large wall print also.

Thank you for the Mark of Excellence. My name is Dave and I've lived in New York City for 36 years. This photo was taken from an elevated subway line and I had my Nikon D700 and my Nikkor 45mm PC-E tilt/shift lens with me. As my luck would have it, the train came to a stop directly above the taxi depot (in Long Island City, Queens) affording me just enough time to adjust my tilt and focus settings on the PC-E lens which are all manual (f2.8 with 8 degrees of tilt). Very little post processing.