Thanks for the compliments. You can download the photo from that website at it's full resolution. Just hover over the photo and a box will pop up. Click on "original" and it will load at full size. Then just right click and "save picture as". You can also buy prints at all different sizes from that site or have it printed by someone else. The big ones aren't cheap and I haven't done it yet, so I don't know exactly how good they are.
Certainly not handheld. That is an HDR photo. It is actually three different exposures taken separately and then combined with a software program. It was about 11:30 at night, so not much light for the background stuff. The cars were well lit by the lightpost. One photo was 5 seconds, one was 10 seconds, the last was 20. All were at f/4 and iso 100. The 5 second exposure captures the highlights without washing them out, but the darker areas will be totally dark. The 20 second exposure captures things that are very dark, like the sky behind, but the cars are very overexposed. It's a technique that makes some very striking photos. Oftentimes unrealisticly so. But that is really what it looked like that night. When I saw the two very bright, very different colors side by side under that unique lighting, I went straight to my room and got my camera and tripod. If you wondered what I was doing outside taking pictures at midnight, now you know.
Sometimes they look like crap. You never know until you get on a computer and process them. Here are a couple more I've done that turned out well.
http://grngoat.smugmug.com/keyword/hdr#1065941509_dwR2o
