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Gallery Categories

Nature

1 gallery with 118 photos

Updated: May 30, 2009 9:27pm CDT

Events

8 galleries with 283 photos

Updated: May 05, 2009 2:59pm CDT

Family

9 galleries with 555 photos

Updated: Feb 13, 2009 9:06am CDT

Weddings

4 galleries with 808 photos

Updated: Oct 20, 2008 10:28pm CDT

Airplanes

6 galleries with 159 photos

Updated: Aug 24, 2008 10:34am CDT

Travel

5 galleries with 240 photos

Updated: Aug 09, 2008 9:09pm CDT

Photography

5 galleries with 149 photos

Updated: Apr 02, 2008 12:18pm CDT

Other

3 galleries with 69 photos

Updated: Jan 01, 2008 12:42am CDT

Competitions

3 galleries with 123 photos

Updated: Aug 05, 2007 12:28pm CDT

Street Scenes

4 galleries with 282 photos

Updated: May 02, 2007 10:39pm CDT

Music

3 galleries with 99 photos

Updated: Apr 01, 2007 10:56pm CDT

Boats

1 gallery with 8 photos

Updated: Aug 10, 2006 2:31pm CDT

Your Bio

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.

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