Here’s the second article in what will be a series on photographing fire trucks with state capital fire departments. This trip was to Austin Texas for Pierce. It took place several years ago before I switched from film to digital…
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Here’s another assignment that I had photographing fire trucks for the E-ONE calendar. I visited the Oklahoma City Fire Department who had recently had several pieces of aerial apparatus refurbished and re-chassied. Oklahoma City is the Capitol of Oklahoma and…
I mentioned recently about a past visit to Chattanooga, Tennessee while I was photographing tow trucks for Miller Industries and for inclusion in my book Tow Trucks in Action. One of my sessions was with Doug Yates of Doug Yates…
Yesterday’s July 4th holiday was nice and quiet for many in the area where I live … and then a woman decided to shatter the calm by smashing through the entrance of our local grocery store … backwards no less … Fortunately there…
While on assignment in Tennessee, I was introduced to Yates Towing and Recovery. The company is owned by one of two brothers, both of which own their own towing and recovery companies. At the time, they had Century rotator heavy…
I’ve had several occasions to play with photographing tow trucks … either for Freightliner, Miller Industries (they build Century, Challenger, Chevron, Vulcan, and Holmes brands), or for a book that I wrote called Tow Trucks in Action. On assignment in Des…
For several years I had the good fortune of being a go-to photographer for Freightliner Trucks, specifically working with vocational trucks (Business Class models). What this meant was that my contact at Freightliner was constantly seeking out different applications or…
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…
Here’s another image from a corporate party at the Field Museum in Chicago. A different group of Chinese acrobats performing with parasols under stage lighting. Although the area was well lit on the performers, overall the low light photography considerations…
While I was working at a corporate event recently, one aspect of the event involved photographing performers that were entertaining the guests. A company of Chinese acrobats put on several exhibitions involving different talents. The event space was dark and…