While on assignment during the summer of 2019 in Hamilton, Ontario, we took four fire trucks to the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport where there was enough room to spread out for a group shot. It was an absolutely…
Category: big truck photography
A bunch of years ago … while shooting film … I had an assignment in Lawrence, MA for Freightliner Trucks to visit Coady’s Towing and photograph a heavy wrecker and heavy-duty roll-off carrier. Once I saw the great looking trucks…
Earlier this year I was photographing the new Rosenbauer Panther ARFF units at LAX. It was just after lunch and I was in front of ARFF 80, the airport fire station midway between parallel runways. Three Airbus 380 planes crossed…
This is a followup post to the previous post of firemen rescuing two trapped victims in an overturned truck. After the victims were freed and the firefighters left the scene, it was up to the towing and recovery company to flip…
Here’s a busy image of an industrial fire engine at a refinery in Ft. McMurray, Canada. This 4×4 E-ONE custom fire engine was photographed on-location for inclusion in one of the E-ONE fire truck calendars. I probably should have pulled…
Here are two examples of photographing trucks at night. Two different types of light, two subjects with totally opposite colors; one black, one white. Both were created by painting with light … keeping the shutter open until the light source…
One more assignment to Florida in the hunt for cement mixer photographs took me to this company that had both trucks and a plant that were all part of the shoot. It was hot and humid, and for the first shot…
Photographing work trucks at a construction site for a client requires some advanced planning and discussions with the company that owns the truck, the driver, and of course someone with authority at the job site. Here are three examples of…
On assignment shooting an Oshkosh S-Series front-discharge mixer by McNeilus in Florida. This was a hot day with extremely high humidity … causing everyone to work a bit slower than normal. For me, this offered an extra minute or two to…
For several years I had the pleasure of photographing work trucks for McNeilus. They manufacture cement mixers and refuse trucks, both of which I spent time with (one was more fun than the other …). Like any work truck assignment,…