Several fire truck builders and equipment suppliers made donations to the FDNY after 9/11 to help replace the devastating loss. I visited New York City to photograph several of these units after they’d been delivered. One was this FDNY Haz…
Category: Fire Truck photography
Photographing a fire scene at night poses several challenges, chief among them being lighting, but smoke, water mist, and rain are a few of the obstacles waiting to trip up a photographer. Realizing also that a fire scene is not a posed…
I had an assignment to create a location portrait of an industrial fire engine inside a private refinery, for the E-ONE calendar several years ago. The final images came out great, but there was quite a bit of advance work necessary…
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…
I visited the Streamwood Fire Department (IL) today to photograph their entire fleet for uploading to chicagoareafire.com. One of the highlights was having the opportunity to photograph their brand new Seagrave Marauder II fire engine. Delivered in the classic Chicago-style…
It’s not always a beautiful sunny day when I am out photographing fire trucks. Sometimes, like this visit to Harrisburg, PA, it’s overcast when I’m there and I don’t know when I’ll have the opportunity to visit again. It was…
A visit to Jasper County, SC for the American LaFrance calendar several years ago gave me the opportunity to photograph these pumper/tankers that were built on Freightliner chassis. The idea to create this shot of these rural units on a farm came…
On assignment for American LaFrance in Kamloops, BC I created this image of the department’s three American LaFrance Eagle chassis, one of which had an American LaFrance/LTI mid-mount tower ladder. We went to a spot that had a fantastic view of the…
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…
A few fire truck photos from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. Both are Rosenbauer America quints on Spartan Gladiator Evolution chassis. There are several of these in the department in addition to other styles from Rosenbauer. L29 was shot in quarters while…