The massive amount of data stored by a RAW file allows for great detail to be realized through editing. I save all my RAW files and occasionally re-process them with updated software to see how algorithms have advanced. Here are…
Category: Fire Truck photography
What would any trip be without visiting a fire station (caserma dei pompieri). On our way to Rome after leaving Pitigliano, we passed through Gradoli, in the Province of Viterbo. Our tour guide spotted alla caserma del distaccamento dei vigili del…
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…
It doesn’t matter where you are, people always claim that if you don’t like the weather … ‘wait a minute.’ This turned out to be true last August when Dorothy accompanied me on an assignment to Albuquerque, New Mexico to…
Okay, perhaps I should have toned down the title here, but I’ve written two previous posts about the gorgeous country that I encountered in British Columbia and how it impacted my decisions to provide images of their new fire engine…
As a followup to last night’s post about the snowcapped mountains visible while returning from Terrace, BC, I’ve included a few images from the site scouting for locations in Terrace to use for the truck shoot. We drove across a…
On our last full day in Spain, Dorothy and I took a 20 minute walk to the Parque de Bomberos Sur, one of two Granada fire stations. We received a warm welcome from the on-duty bomberos which included an offer…
After a brisk 20 minute walk from our hotel in Seville, Dorothy and I visited the Parque de Bomberos. We had a tour and traded our broken Spanish with the broken English of a very kind firefighter.
A trip overseas without a stop at a local fire station is not an option for me. Dorothy accepts this and almost always accompanies me. In Spain, I was able to visit Parques de Bomberos in Madrid, Seville, and Granada.…
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…