I must admit... a nice action-shot of the car in a frame with a little plaque would be nice.  Great way to look back 20 years later... show your kids the car you drove/co-drove in.  

...And a nice bottle of honey.    Did I mention I'm a beekeeper?  

RyanHuber wrote on 03/26/10 at 12:35:51:


We live in an age where people expect instant gratification... so ya, I want my photo NOW!  

Obviously, the photos would have to be sent out after the fact.  Perhaps at the rally, a frame with printed award certificate is handed out, the photo is sent out afterwards.  Leave it upto the competitor to swap certificate for photo.

Many moons ago Martin Loveridge on Voyageur Rally out of Mattawa handed out awards with Photos.

He had a Guy take photos first stage then take ROLLS of film on his motorcycle to North Bay for one hour processing.
This was prior to digital and closest for one hour was NB

Once Results processed photos got mounted.

Remember as some people receive several awards you need enough copies for all needs.

Few years ago for GCFR I asked one of the Media Guys how we could do digital. I was thinking of high grade printer at event. Results posted print pictures.

Two problems very little time to print once results finalised [yes you can make some good guesses earlier in day]

Other problem is digital should not be placed behind glass for at least three day to allow ink to dry.

Thats when I canned that thought

Thanks for all your various input does give me something to think about

Pete g

gully wrote on 03/26/10 at 16:28:25:


A number or years ago, (too many!) the Tall Pines took photos of entrants on the start ramp in Bancroft(?), (or maybe as far back as the Peterborough days at the liftlock,) and essentially did the same thing. I remember someone having to chase around to find a 1hr Photo, and have all of the photos printed. After results were finalized, we frantically slipped photos of the award winners behind a plexiglass plate mounted on studs to a wood backing, while everyone was eating at the banquet. I vaguely remember Fred Baker coordinating this effort. I assume he was Chief Scorer

DaveP wrote on 03/26/10 at 20:14:23:


For the moment anyway, 1 hour labs are still relatively common and can print 8x10 photos from digital files on *real* photo paper (by real I mean done on traditional, light sensitive paper - the standard c-type print).  It's cheaper then owning your own printer and you know what you're getting in terms of quality.  I needed to have some done last week and had to resort to a local drug store - paid 3$/print - took 20 minutes.

Coming from the tarmac side, we never got anything (in MOST recent years - not all) at an Autoslalom or SoloSprint.  So I always thought it was kind of neat that the organziers went out of their way to make sure that winners got something at every ORRC event.  Then, when you have 8 plaques, you start wondering what you're going to do with them.  You HAVE to put them on a wall because there's no way to store them efficiently on the shelf you started stacking them on, because they're all different sizes.  

I think that KWRC's current budget per SNATR trophy is $2.  A nifty dollar store item like a sun catcher, a key rack, a tea light, etc. and an engraved nameplate from the event glued onto it.  Reasonable budget, and my wife actually has two motorsports tophies from the two SNATR's that she ran!  (One knowingly, one unknowingly.  But that's another story.)

But look at OPRC.  Name me a team that spends less than $2500 on average getting to, then doing the Tall Pines, then fixing what they broke, and that will be a rare team indeed.  So to those teams, it's kind of hard to fathom how the organizers can't come up with a $25 trophy for a class win, I suppose.

But I like the thinking going on in this thread.  How do you make it more meaningful?  I think the action photo is the best way.  Supports rally photographers, ensures that the event has good action photos for the media, and the competitors have something they really can treasure.

Oh, and RSO, we were quite happy to collect this hardware at the AGM.  Thanks!