Fire Training & The Fire Truck

Last week we had a fire school for a neighboring utility and I was able to take a few pictures at the training facility. We wanted to get a picture that we could matte and frame for our fire department in appreciation for their help with our training. I accidentally forgot my 70-200 which is what I use most of the time, so these are with the 300 2.8 ED AF (thanks again to GBRandy!). This is a natural gas fire about eighty feet behind the front of the truck. I was able to line up the front of the truck with this particular fire pit, but trying to get it all into frame I was backed up against another building….therefore I cut the top of the truck off in some pictures, and the bottom in others.

 

Thanks Rex. You saw how the 70-200 in its pouch kind of rides like a baby kangaroo. I don’t always keep it there because it isn’t too secure, so on this day I happened to have forgotten to stuff it in the outside of the backpack.

 

Thanks Randy. Thanks for the suggestion, I will try that.

Geez, I was looking at the first picture and thinking about your suggestion…and I noticed that my D200 is on the front bumper of the fire truck. Good thing I remembered to pick it up.

 

Thanks Frank!

I wanted one with just the truck and the flames, and one with someone working a fire in the background. The one with the people in the background may not be as interesting to the fire department because that is our instructor from the gas deparment and a student...but I think they will like the second one.

 

During lunch I leveled the first picture as Randy suggested…I think this is much better (thanks for the suggestion!).
I'm still dissapointed that I left the other camera in the picture 

 

The day before I took this picture I was out at the facility and I had a soft drink from the fridge. As I left and got out on the road I went to grab my drink and it wasn't in my car. I thought I had lost my mind. I stopped the car and my drink was on top of it. Soooo, when I realized that I sat my camera on the fire truck I was sure to pick it up!