69 Floors Climb for Daisy - 12/18/2011 - Photo by Marie D. De Jesús

Jim Stranz, 57, of Penfield exercises his body as well as his soul. Stranz is a volunteering firefighter in the Penfield firehouse training for a 69-story stair climb in full turnout gear as a fundraiser for the Leukemia Society. All of this effort in memory of his friend Daisy Murphy who died of Leukemia. Her photo is in the helmet he is holding in the portrait. For this piece, I made photos of Jim in the exercise room doing his routine. However, this story deserved a nice portrait of him as a volunteer firefighter, a community hero. I politely asked his wife to hold some cables in the tiny space between the firetruck and the garage door, put a light and voilá! 

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