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Firefighters battling a fire in Chicago

  • Posted on March 9, 2016
  • by Larry

A few more images to go with yesterday’s post featuring portraits of firefighters battling a fire in Chicago.

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  • Fire scene photography

Firefighters battling a fire in Chicago

  • Posted on March 8, 2016March 8, 2016
  • by Larry

I spent much of the day photographing firefighters battling a 4-11 Alarm fire in Chicago. I post images of the fire scene and trucks at shapirophotography.net and chicagoareafire.com, but I thought I’d show the personal side of the scene here instead of…

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  • photojournalism

Young boy in Safed (Tzfat)

  • Posted on January 25, 2015
  • by Larry

When I’m on the road, there’s always a camera in my hand. As we toured the Israeli City of Safed (Tzfat), we found this young boy sitting on the steps munching on a snack of pretzels. His dirty face, lack…

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  • photojournalism

FDNY Rescue 1 on-scene in Manhattan

  • Posted on January 15, 2015
  • by Larry

A quick portrait of a firefighter (lieutenant) with FDNY Rescue 1 on-scene in Manhattan some years ago.

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  • portraits

Bar mitzvah portrait with a torah

  • Posted on November 30, 2014November 30, 2014
  • by Larry

As my nephew’s bar mitzvah quickly approaches, I thought I’d share a quick portrait from the synagogue. Part of the photography session includes a Bar mitzvah portrait with a torah. Often there are several torah scrolls within the ark and they…

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  • Fire Truck photography

The official fire trucks for the Salt Lake 2002 winter games

  • Posted on August 27, 2014August 28, 2014
  • by Larry

Sometimes when working for a client, you get rewarded with sweet assignments. Back in 2002, Pierce was the official fire truck sponsor for the winter olympics in Salt Lake City. I was sent out there … before the games ……

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  • photojournalism

Environmental portraiture

  • Posted on August 19, 2014
  • by Larry

This is just a quick post to reminisce about an image taken during my youth … an early effort at environmental portraiture on a fire scene. I thought this guy exhibited a lot of character in the way he carried himself. The…

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  • Fire scene photography

Environmental portrait of a fire chief

  • Posted on August 5, 2014
  • by Larry

The concept of an environmental portrait goes beyond the staged and posed setup. Here’s an example of an environmental portrait of a fire chief while on-scene at a fire. This was not posed or planned. It was an exercise in photojournalism…

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  • big truck photography

Environmental portraiture

  • Posted on July 1, 2014July 1, 2014
  • by Larry

Several years ago I attended the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY on behalf of Freightliner Trucks. One of my assignments was to create environmental portraiture of several owner/operators with their Freightliner trucks. The conditions were not ideal. An enormous…

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  • Fire Truck photography

Photographing fire trucks with people

  • Posted on June 24, 2014June 24, 2014
  • by Larry

This post is more about photographing fire trucks with people from an assignment in Eureka, CA. In the last post I wrote about the first dramatic location that I used, a lumber mill with huge piles of cut logs. I…

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