Allison is becoming an absolute fanatic with her little orange Sony camera.

Here is a shot she took of me on Saturday”

I started looking for a specific photograph last night and ended up using my film scanner to process more than 240 negatives at 4800 dpi into an average size of 15MB (5600 x 3600 ) digital files. That’s almost 4GB of new images if anyone’s counting.

I ended up covering 1983 — the year I lived in Washington DC — to 1985, two years before I moved to Houston and eventually met my partner.

Here is a quick sample:

I spent a month in Cody, Wyoming during the holidays running the local Senate office

I worked for a senator from Wyoming in Washington DC for all of 1983

Two of my nieces in Wyoming

Me at Christmas at some friends’ in Provo, Utah

My niece

A bevy of beauties from Wyoming

My parents, aunts and a cousin visiting the FBI in Washington DC

One of my company’s planes taxis out of Newark, NJ

My parents, aunts and a cousin visit the World Trade Center in New York

I went back to Brazil five years after my mission

Me at Liberty State Park – a few miles from my home in Jersey City, NJ

i was looking through old photographs and negatives last night in search of a specific photo from 1984 and I came across this self-portrait from November of 1983. Amazing how clear-eyed and innocent this 25-year-old was!

As a former employee of Continental Airlines (I would have celebrated 25 years on January 3, 2009), I was saddened to hear of the aborted takeoff and subsequent low-level crash landing in Denver late last week.

Whilst perusing the London Times, I found three illustrative photos of the ‘totalled’ 737-500 aircraft: