Dave Butcher
New member
I have not posted in a long time and have been very busy with work. I was promoted a couple of months ago to Maintenance Supervisor and before that I was working as Project Supervisor for a couple of major projects with the company I work for. With the two different promotions I have not really had a lot of time for any kind of photography. I have been averaging 50 to 60 hours a week at work between the two additions to my work load.
I took Memorial Day weekend off, literately, I turned off my cell phone and the tech that was covering my property was told that unless the property was on fire it could wait till I came back to work the Tuesday after Memorial Day Weekend. Then on the 15th of June I was washing down the pool deck at the property and went to move some lounge chairs and stepped and went down. I did the splits and felt a sharp pain in my right leg. I thought at first that I had broken my leg and the Fire Department was called to transport me to the hospital. Well it was not a broken leg but a severely pulled hamstring. After over a week of being off work and sitting around the house I went out this past Sunday. While out I did not do any bird watching or bird or wildlife photography I sat in a central location and waited and listened to the scanner.
There were three fires within about an hour and I was able to catch one.
I pulled up on this one and it was a two story apartment building that had fire in two of the apartments and I was luck enough to get these shots.
The first one is of the Crew from Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Truck 8 opening up. The firefighting laying down on the roof was looking in the hole that they had just cut.
When I got home and processed the photos I submitted four of them to the Las Vegas Review Journal and they picked up three of them for the online edition of the story.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/east-valley/50-people-displaced-by-las-vegas-apartment-fire/
I took Memorial Day weekend off, literately, I turned off my cell phone and the tech that was covering my property was told that unless the property was on fire it could wait till I came back to work the Tuesday after Memorial Day Weekend. Then on the 15th of June I was washing down the pool deck at the property and went to move some lounge chairs and stepped and went down. I did the splits and felt a sharp pain in my right leg. I thought at first that I had broken my leg and the Fire Department was called to transport me to the hospital. Well it was not a broken leg but a severely pulled hamstring. After over a week of being off work and sitting around the house I went out this past Sunday. While out I did not do any bird watching or bird or wildlife photography I sat in a central location and waited and listened to the scanner.
There were three fires within about an hour and I was able to catch one.
I pulled up on this one and it was a two story apartment building that had fire in two of the apartments and I was luck enough to get these shots.
The first one is of the Crew from Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Truck 8 opening up. The firefighting laying down on the roof was looking in the hole that they had just cut.
When I got home and processed the photos I submitted four of them to the Las Vegas Review Journal and they picked up three of them for the online edition of the story.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/east-valley/50-people-displaced-by-las-vegas-apartment-fire/