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Happy Holidays to all of you who have made this site what it is today. Last October, Elginet made a major milestone and hit over 900,000 photo views in a single month bringing the yearly total to over 5 million photo views. Elginet event photos have appeared in major news publications for the area and have also been seen on Fox News, ABC News and NBC News, as well as Firefighter websites such as Firehouse.com and FirePhotography.com.
On November 11, 2008, I was also notified by the City of Elgin that I was nominated and approved for the "Fire Chief's Award for my level of commitment of assisting and enhancing the reputation of the Elgin Fire Department", to be presented sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009. THANK YOU CITY OF ELGIN and the Firefighters who helped make Elginet!
None of this would have been achieved without the cooperation and support Elgin Fire Department and the other local departments who make up MABAS Division 2, 1 and of Division 12, and my family who's put up with me dashing out the door after hearing the tones.
Unfortunately, do to my disability and another serious family illness, my responses for the next month or so may seem far and few between. Believe me when I tell you that I'm listening to everything happening and if at all possible, I will be there to help create the family archives that this entire mission was set for.
For those of you who don't know what started Elginet Photos, it was kind of an accident. My father was a Chicago Firefighter in the 50's and 60's. He passed in 1978 and something made me start researching his achievements on CFD a couple of years ago, photos in particular which has proven to be quite the task. They're out there....but finding them is another story all together. Being a photographer and always keeping my camera in my car, I happened to be in the right places at the right time, quite a few times. One thing lead to another and I decided to start putting my pics on Smugmug, a fantastic photo website for anyone amateur or pro. When starting to get some positive feedback on some of my photos, and not doing so well on the hunt for photos from my father's Chicago Fire Department days, I decided to take on the mission of creating a "local" archive for our local firefighters. Never did I expect it get over 7 million hits this year.
Once again, thank you for your support with this project.Happy Holidays to all of you who have made this site what it is today. Last October, Elginet Photos made a major milestone and hit over 900,000 photo views in a single month bringing the yearly total to over 5 million photo views.
On November 11, 2008, I was also notified by the City of Elgin that I was nominated and approved for the "Fire Chief's Award for my level of commitment of assisting and enhancing the reputation of the Elgin Fire Department", to be presented sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009. THANK YOU CITY OF ELGIN and the Firefighters who helped make Elginet!
None of this would have been achieved without the cooperation and support Elgin Fire Department and the other local departments who make up MABAS Division 2, 1 and of Division 12, and my family who's put up with me dashing out the door after hearing the tones.
Unfortunately, do to my disability and another serious family illness, my responses for the next month or so may seem far and few between. Believe me when I tell you that I'm listening to everything happening and if at all possible, I will be there to help create the family archives that this entire mission was set for.
For those of you who don't know what started Elginet Photos, it was kind of an accident. My father was a Chicago Firefighter in the 50's and 60's. He passed in 1978 and something made me start researching his achievements on CFD a couple of years ago, photos in particular which has proven to be quite the task. They're out there....but finding them is another story all together. Being a photographer and always keeping my camera in my car, I happened to be in the right places at the right time, quite a few times. One thing lead to another and I decided to start putting my pics on Smugmug, a fantastic photo website for anyone amateur or pro. When starting to get some positive feedback on some of my photos, and not doing so well on the hunt for photos from my father's Chicago Fire Department days, I decided to take on the mission of creating a "local" archive for our local firefighters. Never did I expect it get over 7 million hits this year.
Once again, thank you for your support with this project.Happy Holidays to all of you who have made this site what it is today. Last October, Elginet Photos made a major milestone and hit over 900,000 photo views in a single month bringing the yearly total to over 5 million photo views.
