About me... Geoff Miller

Photo by Emil Berro

I'm a third generation autoracing photographer (part time) and have a great passion for open wheeled racing, namely the Indy 500® and CART series. I attended my first 500 in 1969 and worked my first racing there in 1982. In 1994 I discovered there was life outside Indianapolis and started shooting races at CART events throughout the Midwest. Last year I went to (in chronological order) Indy, Milwaukee, Detroit, Michigan, Mid-Ohio, and Road America.

My work has been used by Reuters, Carl Hungness's Indianapolis 500 Yearbook, SpeedCenter and iRACE websites, and MARC Times Racing News.

I was born in Muncie, IN, went to Burris High School, and then Indiana University. After graduating with a CS degree in 1986, I took a job in Michigan and now live there (here?!?!). I have a great wife of 12+ years and two kids (a third is due on Indy Carburation Day '99).

The photo above was taken at Detroit in 1998. This is usually what I look like except that I usually don't schlep this much stuff with me. My car was 5 miles away in a city parking garage, so I had to hand carry anything I possibly needed that day with me.

My equipment... My father worked for Nikon during the 1970's so that's when I got my start with Nikon. My current racing arsenal includes:
Nikon F5 (with an F4 as backup)
300mm f4 AF-ED Nikkor w/ 1.4 teleconverter
80-200mm f2.8 AF-ED Nikkor
35-70mm f4-5.6 AF Nikkor
28mm f2.8 AF Nikkor
20mm f2.8 AF Nikkor
Nikon SB-24 flash

PC equipment:
Dell P-2 300 & 17" Sony monitor
Nikon Coolscan II scanner
HP CD-RW
Photoshop 5.0
Frontpage97 (for now)

I shoot mainly 100 ISO (ASA for us "old timers") professional slide film. I also use some 100 ISO negative film for budgetary reasons, and usually throw in some 400 ISO negative film for darker lighting situations. I only shoot about 12 rolls of film on a given three day race weekend.

You can reach me at g.m.miller@worldnet.att.net

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