Thread: 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion

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Got lots of photos--going to take lots of time to resize them for posting-----------


Only 12 posts all day today??????????????


Maybe its time this place went to sleep-----------

I watched most of Sat and Sun on bang shift

I got mostly pics of the cars in the pits-----------lots of race cars and also hundreds of hot rods--think one featured group parked in the Grove was LA Roadsters----------never saw so many 32 high boys all in one place-many detail pics of front ends and engines, etc---


Sure wish I could post the size they come out of the camera-------------------

Wish I could have been there, some really good racing without all of the drama. I was surprised that Cruz didn't have the California car in the field.

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Sure wish I could post the size they come out of the camera-------------------

You can by uploading them to

Photobucket

We are not dead yet

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Only 12 posts all day today??????????????

With over 8,000 individual page hits during the same time period.

Bill


I'm out of space at photobucket---and if I remove/replace the ones I have there ,they disappear from sites like this-----------


I've been around hot rods, race cars--drag racers from old a, b,c,d stock classes in the 50s, SS in some later years, Modified Stock early 60s, top fuel, funny car, pro stock from late 60s ---- Stock block Indy cars in 80s, dirt cars, go Karts with my 2 sons 90s-2002-----My cars have won National awards in the International rod and custom shows, best appearing at numerous national races, been featured in all sorts of major publications ( including Esquire Magazine (a month before Burt Reynolds naked in Cosmo)) , many best engineered awards , Revell, 1320inc, Johnny Lightening did models of them-------


As I hope you and others can maybe tell by that, I am pretty deeply rooted with my love and interest for things that make noise and go fast and far--------I have always loved photography and have been around many top level photogs-----just had wonderful visit with Steve Reyes at CHRR---------todays digital cameras allow a level of photog that is mind bogling and I find myself taking thousands of pics along the roads/flight paths of the world/ and national parks, etc , that wasn't possible back in the days of film and prints ( even 35mm slides),


I have always found this site and the people on here as being genuinely deeply interested in the sport and seem to working hard and long to do hot rodding at the highest level they can------I want to be able to post some pics ( not all of them ) showing the detail of the details, and that means to me to be able to post them at the 14 mp of the camera I have-these aren't smart phone pics, (however many times the details will show several peeps with there phones walking in front of the camera)


As an example, from just the CHRR, I probably have 50 pics of just the front ends (suspension, lights, wheels, axle,etc) and engine accessory mounting from strictly 32 fords------------and hundreds of the rest of those cars and the historic drag racers plus several of the new $$$$$$$$$$$$ gassers( got a 57 chev for dave) and altered--------


I'm asking for support from you and others on here to encourage Brent to change the specs for posting photos so it can be done easier and simpler with the details that todays cameras allow. With that I'll go get my second cup of coffee

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

I'm asking for support from you and others on here to encourage Brent to change the specs for posting photos so it can be done easier and simpler with the details that todays cameras allow. With that I'll go get my second cup of coffee

Jerry,

I understand where you are coming from, but I have yet to find any of the 16 forums I have access to daily (down from the 30+ I used to peruse daily) that allow such large photo attachments. The reasoning for this is mostly space, but server level bandwidth, and the fact that there are 1,000's of users who just use certain forums to host their photos for non forum related businesses or auction/sales sites. I will however send your post off to Brent for his consideration, as he is the only one to make such decisions. Perhaps he can explain if they can, or why they cannot be hosted in such a file size (not that other sites may or may not automatically resize such things, but I do not know how).

Bill S.

PS: There are many of us with multiple camp trunks (remember those) full of disorganized photographs, stretching back in to the 60's and earlier......Now if I could just find someone to scan them all in for me for free

Thanks for your continuing support Bill--------------most of the file sizes are 5-6 occasional 7+ mp and I think they would be wayyyyyyyyyyyless space than all those week end E bay thingies---------




even if its a temporary thing, I'd like for him to give it a try--------if it gets out of hand he can reset the limits----------

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Thanks for your continuing support Bill--------------most of the file sizes are 5-6 occasional 7+ mp and I think they would be wayyyyyyyyyyyless space than all those week end E bay thingies---------




even if its a temporary thing, I'd like for him to give it a try--------if it gets out of hand he can reset the limits----------

The ball is in his hands as I sent him a link to this thread and a request for comment/consideration.

But as an example:
One 7meg picture x1,000 views equals 7gigs, or an awful lot of bandwidth. Where as a 150K (Kilobyte) file takes up much less bandwidth, both to host, and to download and view. Especially on a smartphone or tablet.

Now to basic design and education of what each is.

1 Bit = Binary Digit
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte



Bill S.

Originally Posted by mrmustang

The ball is in his hands as I sent him a link to this thread and a request for comment/consideration.

But as an example:
One 7meg picture x1,000 views equals 7gigs, or an awful lot of bandwidth. Where as a 150K (Kilobyte) file takes up much less bandwidth, both to host, and to download and view. Especially on a smartphone or tablet.

Now to basic design and education of what each is.

1 Bit = Binary Digit
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte



Bill S.

You are a patient man, Bill.

I'm more interested in 1000 pics times the 7 viewers still around

This is a Hot Rod forum, not a photography forum! IMO the pics on here are just fine and nothing needs to be changed.

I hate resizing pics but it is one of those things that goes along with that fandangled technology. I'm sure they'd upgrade to the right vbulletin program if you'd like to front them the sponsorship? One site I can think of that takes large files is cumminsforum. They must have a resizing input built into their site. It's the only one I frequent that will accept larger files.

With all that said, I'd like to see what you got out there Jerry. It's always nice to see the things going on in other areas and what and how rods are being built.

Yes Dave, it is a hot rod forum and I could type all day and night with 2 fingers and not begin to write a description of something out there one percent of what a good photo would show----a photo will show the same thing to everybody that sees it and all the words typed on the internet will paint a different picture to everybody that reads it---------------


And furthermore, I've some some pics that I went out of my way to take especially for you------------