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Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« on: May 22, 2008, 10:17:20 PM »
Hello everyone. I am a new fan of LSR racing. My buddy Wayne Pollack finally convinced me, after several years of trying, to attend a ECTA event. I now wished I had come down there sooner. I got a few pix from the event on Sat. and if anyone would like to check them out please go to dwphotosonline.com and tell me what you think. I had a pretty hard time corraling some of those awesome speeds down there but I managed to get a couple of decent shots off. I also would like to thank the staff for allowing me to shoot from the photo tower and to fellow photogs Jim from NY and Bob from VT (sorry can't remember their last names) for putting up with a rookie. I hope to attend more of these events in the future and witness some more record breaking runs. Thanks to All

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 11:07:38 PM »
Good stuff! You got a couple good ones of me!
One more tweak on the tuck & I'm good to go!
(where the heck is that velcro to keep me down!  :-D )

So what resolution are the emailed photos?

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 11:20:04 PM »
Hey Deb,

Thanks for your concerns on my leg in the bruise post. Is there a website for Maxton that has the rules and records and all the classes.
Thanks Sheri Buchta
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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2008, 08:08:27 AM »
Sheri:

I'll pop in and answer part of your question -- the ECTA website is www.ecta-lsr.com, and there's link to it on the homepage of landracing.com --- look on the left side of the page about midships down from the top.  You'll be able to find records, runs, and stuff like that -- but not a rulebook.

Rules are, as you've seen posted here, pretty close to SCTA rules but with some significant differences in a few areas.  If you've got a specific question about a rule -- go ahead and ask here.  If you want the full set -- hey, that's how ECTA makes a buck -- you buy a rulebook!  Just like the other orgainizations.

Best regards, and thanks for the photos.

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2008, 08:49:41 AM »
Thanks Deb,
          I use a 8mp Canon camera and the jpg full res is any where from 2.5-3.5 mb which equals around 3500 x 2300 or a 48" x 32" photo at 72 dpi. Of course if you have to crop any of it, you will lose some res. I email at full res but as you can see, it makes for a pretty good sized file and if you wanted several pix it may take more than one e mails to get them to you. I shoot in RAW format also and that is over twice as big as a jpg (7mb) and I generally use this type for printing posters. I hope this helps you out.

Thanks
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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2008, 09:16:24 AM »
Yes it does, David, thanks!
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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2008, 10:26:02 AM »
David:

Now that I hold the handlebars at landracing.com I'm thinking that maybe I should upgrade the camera I use at race events.  Would you mind giving me some details about the Canon you've got?  Feel free to send me a direct email -- jonwennerberg(at)nancyandjon.org.  I nmeed to know stuff like price, of course, as well as other details -- so I can shop with a little more knowledge than I've now got.

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2008, 04:21:20 PM »
Not exactly Maxton.  ECTA member Dave Anderson came out to El Mirage to ride my Norton.  I think he had a great time.  Ran 122.


By weslake, shot with Canon PowerShot A430 at 2008-05-18
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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2008, 10:20:05 PM »
Not exactly Maxton.  ECTA member Dave Anderson came out to El Mirage to ride my Norton.  I think he had a great time.  Ran 122.


By weslake, shot with Canon PowerShot A430 at 2008-05-18

He looks happy!

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2008, 10:47:10 PM »
He should look happy.  He got to ride a Norton at El Mirage!!
Get off the stove Grandad.  You're too old to be riding the range.

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2008, 10:54:14 PM »
Ahhhh, so that's where our John Denver was! Looks like he had a good time!

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2008, 12:26:43 PM »
I'm eventually going to find a place to have a photo gallery with all of the photos that Jon had up -- but first of all he's going to mail the CD-ROMs with all 11,000 photos, then I have to find someone to host 'em all.  In the meantime I've set up a photobucket site with some of the pictures I took at Maxton in mid-May.

Go to http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/Maxton%20May%202008/

I don't think you can "mess" (edit, photoshop, etc) with the photos -- but if you can, please don't.  I haven't figured out how to enlarge them to full-size -- but I just got these up this morning and haven't taken time to do more.  Let me know if this works okay for you folks for now.  Thanks.
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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2008, 12:55:07 PM »
Hey Jon:

They may not reach full size but when you click on them they reach a very useable size very quickly. Good job!

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2008, 01:20:16 PM »
Nice collection of pics!

FYI, on your description for this pic:

Phil's naked run was 209+ for entry into the 2 club, the 202+ was my run/entry speed.
Don't want you to short change him!  :-D

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Re: Maxton Photos Sat. May 17
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2008, 01:36:53 PM »
Deb:  Taking photos was the first thing I tried to learn at this event.  The next one will feature me learning to take notes about the photos I'm taking.

By the way, how's the thinking going on the subject that's under discussion 'tween youse guys and us?
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