I’ve been asked, “Why fire hydrants?”. To answer that, I’ll mention my friend, Les Oswald. Les is an artist, photographer and videographer; and I’ve known Les since January, 1979. Les started a photo album on FaceBook with this statement and question: “Fire hydrants: always there, always ready. But are they art?” He then invited other people, including me, to add their photos of fire hydrants from anywhere around the world. I have whole-heartedly accepted the challenge to photograph fire hydrants as I find them. I don’t necessarily photograph every fire hydrant that I see, but I do photograph a lot of ’em. And I think that it’s really cool how we build our streets, homes and other buildings to be next to the many fire hydrants that are scattered throughout the country
You can see all of the fire hydrant photos I’ve captured by visiting my photography website, where they have their very own category: stevenralphimages.com. And just in case you don’t want to see them on that site, here is a small sampling of my fire hydrant photos: