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Permalink Reply by Ron Briggs on
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Thank you for sharing Russ. I go by the title Fire Photographer. I have almost doubled the number of photos that I took last year, but now suddenly it slowed down so I don't think I will reach double. I am 342 photos away from reaching that point with 1 1/2 months to go so I don't think it is going to happen unless we get 2 working structure fires (HOPE TO HAVE NONE!!). I do as many working fire calls as possible. I have only missed about 7 or so this year that were small or that I was out of town when they occured. I also photograph the citizen academy the department holds each year, and now starting to photograph some of the training sessions. One highlight I photographed was a member retiring. The member came in for 5 hours and ended it with a large retirement sendoff complete with family, friends, coworkers, and cake. That was an honor. I then put a copy of the pics on cd and dropped at the station for the member to stop and pick up. I too started out young. Father was on a Vol. Dept. when I was younger and I use to go with him to calls and even help photograph while he was fighting the fire. Now that I am older and have the knowledge that came at a young age, I can get some nice shots sometimes.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Moyer on
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My wife and son started taking pics for our dept about a year and a half ago.. She does our fire, mva's and training pics.
Her plate on the front of her car say's PHOTO UNIT only because photographer didnt fit. She has made 2 videos so far and both are on youtube. Just type in albion vol. fire dept. and you can see her work. We are also coming up on our 100th Anniv. next year and she is going to do a video for that too.
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Thank you Chrus, I will check it out this weekend sometime. I was hoping for no fires for a while, but it happened again. Yesterday morning an apartment fire. NO injuries or worse. It was even snowing during the call. Of course I had to give a couple of the personnel some guff about it asking them if they ordered it. Answer given: NO. Of course I did this after the fire was out, which it was by the time I got there. Then the personnel gave me guff saying either they are getting too fast or I am getting too slow. Last time they did this I told them if they gave me Reds and a siren that I could get there faster. Their answer: Photographers don't need them My reply: then I get there when I get there
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Permalink Reply by Russ on
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i just converted all of my pictures to digital and was shocked that it took me 2 months to do it all. i had not realized how many fires i'd been to and was grateful i kept them all. i even came across a picture of myself with the late Hal Bruno (taken back in the 80's)
and i forwared it to his family and hope they enjoy it. fire photography serves a great need and i hope you love for it never waines because something you shot yesterday might serve a purpose years from now
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Thank you Russ. Some of the photos have already served some purposes. In my 3 years doing this (on my third year right now - it started Aug. 16) I have had one member leave due to family issues (the first female on the dept. of all males) and one Lt. retire. I took photos that I had taken of them at calls as well as at other functions and put them on cds for each of them to remember their careers by. I was thanked by both of them. My most memorable call during my Official status was when my local public high school (that I graduated from in 1999) had an equipment fire that ended up going to a 2 alarm call. Had a photo from that Published Front Page of local newspaper. Chief asked if he could submit for the press release since they didn't get any shots and I said sure not expecting that to happen. Some of my photos were used in the Fire Dept. booth (Called Station 3) at the fair in July and again at the dept. open house in October. Now the dept. want me to start to submit more photos for publishing saying I am doing such a nice job that I should some of my work.
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Permalink Reply by Cody Patrick on
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we still have an "official photographer" however members have been known to take their own at appropiate times with our IC's approval
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Thank you Cody. The fire we had last week was ruled an accident. Little spot in the paper about it but no photos. I didn't submit any. Good thing about that: I won't have to buy for the shift! I enjoy what I do by doing this. By doing this I can keep the family tradition in the emergency services going but on a different level.
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Ron did ya get a chance to check out our video
youtube...albion volunteer fire dept
either the recruitment vidoe 5min or 2011 review 20min
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I will check it out tonight and will let you know. I would have done it earlier today but I had to work today. Just got home a little while ago.
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Cool enjoy!
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Chris, I just checked out both videos and enjoyed them. Gives me a few ideas for the future when I am trying to take individual photos of personnel. Some have already asked me if I would so they can get the board in the station with everyones photos updated. I told them to talk to the chief about it as I have already done so with no luck. Didn't work yet, had some new members this year and the chief had them go to the professional photographer who does them for the board. I have taken thousands of photos in the 3 years that I have been doing this and just love it. Never the same thing on most scenes.
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Thanks
Keep taking pictures and have fun.
What kind of camera do you use?
I'm thinking of getting the wife a Canon 60D. Any thoughts?
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