I'm James Marabello. I've been a professional firefighter with the City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts for the last 20 years. I have also been a professional freelance TV camera operator for the last 10 years.

My love for photography and firefighting ran parallel from the early '80's until about 1995. During the early and mid '80's until the very early '90's the fire load around Fitchburg was pretty heavy, especially for the size of the area. I have finally undertaken the task of beginning to scan thousands of negatives from around the area.

With my belated conversion to digital imaging, and the drastic reduction in building fires, my main focus is now on landscape and travel photography. I am lucky enough to have been to some fairly exotic and varied locales due to my television travels, although it has significantly slowed this year. However, there should be more travels to come in the future. I hope you find my images interesting. I recently acquired a Fuji rangefinder 120 film camera and hope to shoot some landscape stuff this fall.

I'm currently shooting digital with my rugged old Nikon D1x and a D40. Most of the old fire photos were shot with Nikon FM, FM2, F, F2, and F3 through the years.

---UPDATE----

London photos are now up along in Landscapes along with the London Fire Brigade photos in Fireground.