Starting at age 9 with a disposable camera and moving "up" to a 30 year old, Minolta SRT-101 camera (that my dad used to shoot in the 70's at Dallas International and Green Valley before passing it down to me in the mid 90s) here's some shots I've wanted to scan for years.

Using a $50 printer, scanner, copier combo machine from Best Buy, these are the best scans I could get for now.

I used the 35mm Minolta until 2004 when I switched to digital with a Canon 10D. Using a camera with no automatic functions taught me the basics of composition. Manual focus, exposure, wind and zoom! These days, automatic digital shooting can be done with your eyes closed.

Although I would do just about anything to be born in the late 50's before drag racing got "pro" on us, the 90's was a pretty damn good decade of drag racing. My favorite drivers at the time were Kenji Okazaki and Eddie Hill. Included in this gallery is a 3 shot series (yes, I had to wind the film between shots) of Kenji's last passes in Jim Dunn's funny car as he put it in the wall in 1997 during qualifying and Dunn soon released him from driving duties. Needless to say, I hated Jim Dunn for a few years.

I also had a Sony Mavica, one of the earliest digital cameras, which recorded images on a floppy disk (12 images per disk at high quality) and I have boxes of floppy disks full of photos, but currently no way to read those disks and retrieve the images. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of that stuff posted sometime soon. Until then, enjoy these film shots from 1993 to 2004. I believe I have the dates correct, but if you see an error just let me know!