Every month, we choose three outstanding photos for recognition. These are photos submitted by Associated Press member newspapers. From these, we select a winning photograph, and two honorable mentions.

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How I got the picture

Frischling:

"I'd love to say I was looking for a great feature photo when I shot my photo of an ice fisherman pushing his hut across the ice, but the truth is I was returning from a report of an auto-accident late in the day, and I was in a rush to get back to the office and begin scanning my negatives.

With a dense fog settling in, and my light fading fast I assumed I was done for the day, short one photo, when I noticed a shadow in the fog a few hundred yards down an embankment. Not knowing how to get down the embankment, I drove around until I found my way down to the edge of the Connecticut River, pulled out my 300f2.8 lens, with a 2x converter (600f5.6), and fired off half-a-dozen frames before heading back to the office to process my film."

Honorable mentions went to Ryan Mercer of the Portsmouth (NH) Herald for a Jan. 30 picture of Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., during a candlelight march in her father's honor at the Univesity of New Hampshire, and to Don Himsel of The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., of a snow shoveler framed by the windows of a hotel.