Fire Stations!
At a wedding reception in a home that was once a fire station, a guest tries a fireman’s helmet for size.
The vintage brass helmet was effectively a chattel of the property. It is embossed with MFB (the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, of Melbourne). With a camera, I'd have bokehed the background, but a benefit of the uncontrollably large DoF resulting from the use of an early iPhone is that a wall behind the main subject brings up a historic photo of a Hotchkiss fire engine, with ladder and crew, posed in front of the fire station in 1929. (*See comment).
Seventy or more years ago, I had a number of Little Golden Books illustrated by the wonderful Hungarian artist, Tibor Gergely, who made a career in the US as an illustrator of children's books. One, the “Five Little Firemen”, finished something like,
Oh yes, oh no, there is no doubt,
The finest fire is the fire that’s out!
Here is one little fireman some decades on...
Fire Stations!
At a wedding reception in a home that was once a fire station, a guest tries a fireman’s helmet for size.
The vintage brass helmet was effectively a chattel of the property. It is embossed with MFB (the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, of Melbourne). With a camera, I'd have bokehed the background, but a benefit of the uncontrollably large DoF resulting from the use of an early iPhone is that a wall behind the main subject brings up a historic photo of a Hotchkiss fire engine, with ladder and crew, posed in front of the fire station in 1929. (*See comment).
Seventy or more years ago, I had a number of Little Golden Books illustrated by the wonderful Hungarian artist, Tibor Gergely, who made a career in the US as an illustrator of children's books. One, the “Five Little Firemen”, finished something like,
Oh yes, oh no, there is no doubt,
The finest fire is the fire that’s out!
Here is one little fireman some decades on...