Pool Photography by Mike Haines & Bill Porter

Galleries

1980 Rocky Mountain 9-Ball Open - photos by Mike Haines & Bill Porter :

1980 Rocky Mountain 9-Ball Open - photos by Mike Haines & Bill Porter

Updated: Jan 10, 2007 6:58am PST

1980 Las Vegas 9-Ball Open - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter :

1980 Las Vegas 9-Ball Open - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter

Updated: Jul 27, 2006 5:28am PST

1980 BCA National 8 Ball Championship - photos by Bill Porter :

1980 BCA National 8 Ball Championship - photos by Bill Porter

Updated: Mar 02, 2009 7:12am PST

Austin 1981 - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter :

Austin 1981 - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter

Updated: Jun 07, 2006 11:06am PST

1982 Dayton 9-BAll Open - photos by Bill Porter : Earl has his first significant tournament win.

1982 Dayton 9-BAll Open - photos by Bill Porter

Earl has his first significant tournament win.

Updated: Mar 03, 2009 6:43am PST

1982 Clyde Childress Memorial Pool Tournament - photos by Bill Porter :

1982 Clyde Childress Memorial Pool Tournament - photos by Bill Porter

Updated: Mar 11, 2009 8:14am PST

1983-1984 Dayton 9-Ball Opens - photos by Bill Porter :

1983-1984 Dayton 9-Ball Opens - photos by Bill Porter

Updated: Jul 08, 2006 5:17pm PST

Red's Tournaments in Houston, TX (1983-1984) - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter :

Red's Tournaments in Houston, TX (1983-1984) - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter

Updated: Jun 08, 2006 8:47am PST

1984 2nd River City Open 9-Ball Tournament - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter :

1984 2nd River City Open 9-Ball Tournament - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter

Updated: Jul 28, 2007 9:48am PST

1984-1985 Clyde Childress Memorial Pool Tournaments - photos by Bill Porter :

1984-1985 Clyde Childress Memorial Pool Tournaments - photos by Bill Porter

Updated: Jul 16, 2006 9:27am PST

1986 Clyde Childress Memorial Tournament - Expanded in September, 2006 - photos by Bill Porter :

1986 Clyde Childress Memorial Tournament - Expanded in September, 2006 - photos by Bill Porter

Updated: Sep 13, 2006 9:25am PST

1986 Clyde Childress Memorial Pool Tournament - photos by Bill Porter :

1986 Clyde Childress Memorial Pool Tournament - photos by Bill Porter

Updated: Sep 05, 2006 5:46am PST

Mosconi-Lassiter-Moore-Breit - 1987 - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter :

Mosconi-Lassiter-Moore-Breit - 1987 - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter

Updated: Apr 30, 2006 3:52pm PST

Miscellaneous Pool Photos by Mike Haines & Bill Porter : We are not sure of when or where these shots were taken.

Miscellaneous Pool Photos by Mike Haines & Bill Porter

We are not sure of when or where these shots were taken.

Updated: Jul 18, 2006 9:47am PST

2005 Derby City Classic - photos by Bill Porter & Mike Haines :

2005 Derby City Classic - photos by Bill Porter & Mike Haines

Updated: May 08, 2006 8:57am PST

2006 Derby City Classic - photos by Ed Fields/photo editing by Bill Porter :

2006 Derby City Classic - photos by Ed Fields/photo editing by Bill Porter

Updated: May 21, 2006 6:30am PST

1980 Florida Open - photos by Bill Johnston : These photos were sent to us by Bill Bell, long time friend of now deceased Bill Johnston.

1980 Florida Open - photos by Bill Johnston

These photos were sent to us by Bill Bell, long time friend of now dec ...

Updated: Dec 16, 2007 11:43am PST

Dallas Pool Scene - 1980s and beyond - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter : Mostly from Clicks in the 1980s, but a few more recent images

Dallas Pool Scene - 1980s and beyond - photos by Mike Haines/photo editing by Bill Porter

Mostly from Clicks in the 1980s, but a few more recent images

Updated: Aug 03, 2007 8:37am PST

Art Shots :

Art Shots

Updated: Feb 16, 2009 4:47am PST

Our historic pool photos on a computer DVD that also has our interviews from the 1980 Rocky Mountain Open. : The DVD contains large .jpg and .tif files suitable for making prints. Also included are all of our interviews from the 1980 Rocky Mountain Open, viewable images from the 2005 DCC, and a screen saver made by Mike Haines. The DVD is to be used in a Windows computer DVD drive only. It does not "play" in a DVD player. This DVD is no longer for sale to the general public.

Our historic pool photos on a computer DVD that also has our interviews from the 1980 Rocky Mountain Open.

The DVD contains large .jpg and .tif files suitable for making prints. ...

Updated: Jan 10, 2007 7:46am PST

Raffle Winners Dinner at the 2008 DCC :

Raffle Winners Dinner at the 2008 DCC

Updated: Jan 21, 2008 7:53am PST

World of Sports - 2009 :

World of Sports - 2009

Updated: May 22, 2009 7:18am PST

Your Bio

I'm a retired college professor who focused on pool photography back in the 1980s. My email address is: billporter1874@yahoo.com. Some of these galleries have pool photos taken by my old friend Mike Haines from Dallas whose photo is just to the right of mine. Mike's email address is: smhaines@sbcglobal.net. Ed Fields contributed the images in the 2006 Derby City Classic gallery: Ed's email address is: fieldspop1@aol.com.

The printing option, external linking, and downloading of images have been turned ON for our galleries of old pool pics. You may download, print, and link as much as you like.


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Below is a Picasa2 slideshow featuring 500 of our old

pool photos alphabetized by player name

Below is a slide show/video featuring images from the

2006 One Pocket Hall of Fame Dinner (Click on the "Play" button)

Below is a slide show/video featuring images from the

1982 Dayton Open - Earl's first big win (Click on the "Play" button)

Below is a slide show/video featuring images from the

1986 Clyde Childress Pool Tournament (Click on the "Play" button)

Below is a video of a two-rail kick shot that won a local 8-Ball tournament.(Click on the "Play" button)