About Me

 

I have been involved with Fire Photography for almost 30 years. In that time I have been involved with the following fire and ems organizations: Watertown Volunteer Fire (member), Naugatuck Volunteer Ambulance (EMT-I-D, Crew Chief, Vice President), Wolcott Volunteer Ambulance (EMT-I), Naugatuck Volunteer Rescue Squad, and Oxford Volunteer Ambulance (EMT-D, President). I am currently a Member of the Connecticut Fire Photographers Association, a Correspondent and Photographer for the First Responder News Network , a contributor to firefightingnews.com, a member of the International Organization of Fire Photographers and contributor to their website firephoto.org , as well as having photos published in FireHouse Magazine,Fire Engineering,FOX News, WTNH News, the Waterbury Republican American and the Hartford Courant. I work to actively promote the fire fighting services in a positive light and have assisted fire investigators on multiple occasions by providing them with scene photographs for evidence in arson investigations.

A Little About The Tools Of The Trade

 

My Photo Gear

Cameras

   

My Primary Camera

12.3 Mega Pixel Nikon D300  DSLR w/MB-D10 Battery Pack

My Back-Up Camera

Nikon D50 DSLR

Lenses

Nikon 18-135mm Zoom

Nikon 18-200 VR Zoom

Nikon 70-300 Zoom

Nikon 55-200 VR Zoom

External Flashes

2 Nikon SB 800 AF Flashes

Nikon SD-8A Auxillary Battery Pack

Misc Equipment

Tamron Pro-12 Over The Shoulder Camera Bag

4 Sandisc 4G Compact Flash Cards

4 Sandisc 4G SD Flash Cards

Manfrotto 190V Tripod

Dell Axim PDA

Dell Inspiron Laptop w/ Adobe Photoshop CS, and Adobe Lightroom Software

Radio Equipment

At The House

GRE 600 APCO 25 Capable Trunk Scanner with an Austin Ferret Multi Band Base Antenna

Uniden BC 396XT APCO 25 Capable Portable Trunk Scanner

Uniden BC 996XT APCO 25 Capable Portable Trunk Scanner with a Diamond Discone and Antenna Specialist VHF Yagi

Three Minitor 3 Pagers

Four Regency611A Monitoradios, a Regency HLU10 Monitoradio, and a Regency ACT4 HLU Monitoradio

Mobile

Uniden BCD396T APCO 25 Trunk Scanner with an Austin Spectra Multi Band Antenna

Vertex VX 180 VHF-Hi Portable and a Motorola Saber III VHF Portable

Vertex Standard VX 180 UHF Portable

Two Motorola MT1000 Low Band Portables

Motorola STX 800 MHZ Portable

Blackberry Curve (for communication and incident alerts from the First Responder Wireless Network)