“Early in 2003 I started a web page, www.dennistonphoto.com, to display the pictures I have been making since I retired. The idea was that it would also include a great number of my file pictures.

“Almost immediately the site filled with the pictures I’d taken the previous weekend and, like all photographers, I always have more interest in the pictures I took today than in the ones I took last week or last year. Anyway, any hope of digging up old negatives and scanning them was relegated to the back burner while I grappled with web design, server space and the work flow necessary to handle the number of pictures I was creating every day.”

“Since most of my new pictures were from motocross races a decision was made to create a new web site with a new name and a new direction. A site strictly for dirt bike pictures.”

“My first photographs of a motocross race were taken sometime in the late 1960’s on a rainy day in an abandoned coal pit just east of Edmonton.”

“It was obvious after only a few minutes of the first moto that this was a sport with amazing picture possibilities. I’ve photographed as many races as I could ever since and at last count had in excess of 12,000 negatives in my files.”

“A few of them were published in The Province where I worked as a photographer and photo editor for 30 plus years. A few were published in motorcycle magazines. Most were just filed away with the thousands of other negatives I have in my basement. Soon they, along with the pictures I’m taking at current races, will find a home here.”