Earlier this month, I did a road trip from Calgary to Monterey, California (4000 mi, 6600 km round trip) in the RX-8 to attend the Concourso Italiano (over 600 Ferraris! plus everything else) and the Historic Races at Laguna Seca.

I finally put up a few of the photos from my trip in an Imagestation album (registration is required, but it's a Sony site with no spam etc.). The album is
here (http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4289264585) - be forewarned that there are 148 images there, and some of them are big. I suggest using the index view, and then you see the thumbnails.

Hope you enjoy!

Regards,
Gordon

I'd love to see them. But I refuse to sign up for anything just to look at pictures. Thanks anyway. :cool:

Same here. And I've lived in Monterey, and LOVE driving there. Of course, HWY1 and Big Sur are the big crowd pleasers, but my other favorite driving spot is HWY 68 towards Asilomar, through the hills and cliffs. Every once in a while you can hit it without traffic. Was great fun in my '91 Civic; I'd love to drive my RX-8 there.

Sorry guys, but unless you have suggestions for another free photo-posting solution that will let me mass-upload about 150 pictures without having to resize them individually, then that's the best I can do! Why not have a look at Imagestation before rejecting it? I've no vested interest, but found it better than Yahoo photos etc. for these reasons.

Sometimes it's worth it to register for something! ;) When was the last time you saw a Ferrari 275GTS/4 NART Spyder (only 10 made, worth $2M+), and a couple of Enzos, and 43 Bugattis together, and a race grid of GT40s, and 600+ Ferraris, and the new Lamborghini Gallardo, and 80s vintage F1 cars in the Corkscrew, and a Ferrari GTO, and a few 250 Testa Rossas, some D-Type Jags, and dozens of pics of a TiGray RX-8, all in one spot? ;)

Regards,
Gordon

I wouldn't be uploading images for this simple reason:

6. License Grant and Intellectual Property Rights
In consideration for the Service, and the potential benefits related thereto, you grant ImageStation, its successors, licensees and assigns, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty free license to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, publish, publicly perform, and publicly display your Member Content, by all means now known, or later created, including but not limited to display on the Internet, and in all forms of media, now known or later created.

Nice images though!

Originally posted by Lensman
I wouldn't be uploading images for this simple reason:


:eek: Geez, I should have read the fine print! Of course, I'm not a pro photographer, and I doubt there's much there worth stealing! ;)

Still... OK, the album is available to view for about 2 weeks, then it's gone!

Regards,
Gordon

I bravely registered. Great pictures! Looks like you had a great trip. What is this structure that looks like Stonehenge? Where is it?

What is this car? I think I see some Viper showing.

I really enjoyed going thru your pictures - I almost felt like I was there. Wait a minute - I was, at least part of it. By the way, that's a nice car parked next to yours.

Some nice pix!!! here's a few i liked

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid77/p22a79ac47b3828d1304ff739ae1aa520/fb3d81c7.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid77/pe9abaf74775340a69093f070e64e72ab/fb3d8305.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid77/p6056e6eb4a801a269fc1a4d8cdd93924/fb3d8690.jpg

Originally posted by mazdabob
I bravely registered. Great pictures! Looks like you had a great trip. What is this structure that looks like Stonehenge? Where is it?

Thanks, Bob! That structure actually is Stonehenge - a full-size replica. Not of the rickety, run-down one they have in England... but as it would have looked when it was first built! (I searched for info on "Stonehenge Washington", and found a few sites about this - they all claim that the WA memorial version is full-scale, but we visited the real thing last summer, and to me it seemed that the replica was maybe 3/4 scale.)

It's located east of Portland, OR, on the north side of the Columbia River. There's a bit more info here (http://gonorthwest.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/about.htm%23ston) , but here's the important bits:Built by Sam Hill as a tribute to the soldiers of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill's Stonehenge is the first monument in our nation to honor the dead of World War I. The structure is a full-scale replica of England's famous neolithic Stonehenge. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica to remind us that ''humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.'' The location now also includes monuments to the soldiers of Klickitat County who died in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.
The monument lies at the original Maryhill townsite, four miles east of the museum, just off Washington Scenic Route 14. Hill's own crypt is a short walk southwest of Stonehenge on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River.

The mystery car is a TVR Cerbera. I've seen them in the UK, but never over here before.

Yeah, that Nordic Green RX-8 is pretty amazing! ;)

Regards,
Gordon

What camera did your use? because there very high res

Originally posted by Gord96BRG



The mystery car is a TVR Cerbera. I've seen them in the UK, but never over here before.


the mystery car used to be a TVR cerbera, but now it's a tvr cerbera with a bloody great hole in the bonnet?

You think that's bad, how about this one?

Yet more proof that TVR really need to start vetting who they allow to buy their (besit in the world :)) cars...

http://www.supercars.net/potd/pics/admin/911.jpg

Excellent pics and awesome trip. Some of those road pics would be great marketing shots for Mazda. I'm hoping to get up there in the next year or two for the event. Was there ever an open session where you could go on the track? Just curious. Very nice pics indeed and well worth registering (IMO)!

Originally posted by Jon Brittan
You think that's bad, how about this one?

Yet more proof that TVR really need to start vetting who they allow to buy their (besit in the world :)) cars...

http://www.supercars.net/potd/pics/admin/911.jpg


Please don't!!! I can't stand that monstrosity, the guy should be shot for ruining such a beautiful car. It caused a big stir in the TVR world when that thing appeared....


-andy-

yes thank you for sharing, there were some fantastic pics in there, RX-8 or not.

Originally posted by m0j0
What camera did your use? because there very high res

It's a Canon S40, a 4MP camera. Most of the pics were shot at 2272x1704 resolution.

Regards,
Gordon

Awesome pics !!!

I love them, thanks.

My favourite one is the shot on the BIG hail-pin turn. Amazing.

Please Tell me how you setup that shot ? Must be a lot effort to get up there to take that photo.

Originally posted by Smoker
My favourite one is the shot on the BIG hail-pin turn. Amazing.

Please Tell me how you setup that shot ? Must be a lot effort to get up there to take that photo.

Thanks!

The hairpin is on the old highway 30 just west of Rowena, Oregon, along the Columbia River. The road climbs to a lookout over the river - but the back of the lookout is almost straight down over the road. After we drove up there and saw the view of the road, I left my 15 yr old son up at the lookout to take the pictures as I drove back down and then back up. He actually got a series of 5 shots of the RX-8 going around that hairpin corner - I'm planning to photoshop the them together so that there will be 5 Gray RX-8s going around the corner at the same time in one pic... someday! ;)

Regards,
Gordon

Gord,

Really nice pics! I especially like the ones by the ocean. Now I've got some new wallpaper. Thanks!

that gold tvr is awesome

Originally posted by Gord96BRG

I left my 15 yr old son up at the lookout to take the pictures as I drove back down and then back up. He actually got a series of 5 shots of the RX-8 going around that hairpin corner


That's really really cool. Good work Gord.

If I'm driving, I would have definitely put the car diagonal to the turn and take a "drifting" shot of the car. :D :D

The only question I have Gord, is that how the heck did you managed to keep the car so clean for all of those shots ??!!! Amazing !

dam 2mb a pic.

some of them.

what

Well worth the registration.

NICE pics.

Looks like you had a lot of fun.

Your album was very cool! I enjoyed looking at it and added it to my favorites.

Thanks for sharing :)