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Elgin Park - You may not have heard the name “Michael Paul Smith”, but people over internet are searching for the “Elgin Park” fanatically, because it is the model society a very small town you may not find on the map of the United States, but for Smith it is a place of his dreams, where he lives days. It would be perfect to say that for Michael Paul Smith “Elgin Park is the reality of Fantasy”. Recently ABC Network discovered the story behind Elgin Park, when they meet up with the creature of this miniature society. Talking to ACB Network, Smith said, People have forgot that how colorful the past was, while taking a snap of miniature city Elgin Park, Pennsylvania. The model miniature town has been created by Smit himself using the old model cars and building that are homemade. It was his passion, greed to see the colorful past, even in pictures, so he decided to take lifelike photographs of the miniature “Elgin Park”, with his $75 digital camera, but the miniature town went viral whe...

Elgin Park, Pennsylvania - I discovered the small (very small) town of “Elgin Park” the same way millions of others around the world have: someone forwarded me a link to a Flickr slide show. The subject line was “Cars of the past … real or models?” The photos were of models, all right, but they appeared so much more lifelike than any dioramas I’d seen before. I felt as if I was looking at a movie that was expressed in stills. I would soon learn that my view of Michael Paul Smith’s photos of this imaginary town was one of about 20 million — so far. I wrote about Mr. Smith and his scaled-down town for the Sunday Automobiles section. While this may seem like the story of a car enthusiast, Mr. Smith defies that label. He is an artist, not a car nut. He loves the aesthetics of American cars from decades past, but he doesn’t seem to care what engines they had. Elgin Park is really about a sense of home, not about the cars, which are simply the actors in the scenes. Mr. Smith is the casting ...