I was going through my image archive today, and stumbled across some of my much much earlier photos... one from my first digital camera that wasn't one of those cheap $15 webcam type ones. As well as another from my 1994 trip to Germany and Austria. Rather proud of both, given what I was working with, and my relative inexperience in all things photography.
First up we have Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany circa 1994. The image was taken using a Konica Big Mini-A4 35mm point and shoot with zoom, using unknown film (probably either kodak or fuji 100). The photo was taken from the old iron bridge a bit back on the backside of the castle that crosses the valley.
Next up we have probably one of my earliest wildlife shots. A cardinal resting on a branch at Blacklick Woods Metro Park in Reynoldsburg, OH circa 2005/2006. The image was taken with a Konica-Minolta DiMage Z6 at 12x optical zoom, handheld. I was out on a walk in very late winter/very early spring after having purchased the camera not long prior to that time. The one singular thing that the Konica had going for it other than the 12x optical zoom was the very balanced natural color mode. If only the cardinal hadn't been looking the opposite way...
EXIF data for these images does not exist. Either the copy of corel I was using at the time didn't support EXIF or I used another editor that didn't. The picture of the castle was scanned in at the highest resolution my computer at the time could handle, using an Epson Perfection 4180 flatbed scanner.