Photo of the month: December 2000

Every month we choose for recognition three photos from among those contributed to the report by member newspapers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. From these we select a Photo of the Month and two honorable mentions.

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Caleb Kenna
Rutland (Vt.) Herald

Gary Lambert, a Rutland firefighter helping with evacuation of residents, is spotlighted in headlights Dec. 17 as he crosses a street flooded during a freak warm-weather storm
Kevin Bennett, Bangor (Maine) Daily News
Tim Hanning watches as the wreckage of the Little Raspy
washes up on shore in Jonesport on Dec. 15. Three crewmen,
friends of Fanning's, died when the scalloper capsized in
rough seas.
Herb Swanson, Portland (Maine) Press Herald
More than 150 Santa Clauses took to the slopes at Sunday River Ski Area in Newry on Dec. 10 as part of the Bethel Rotary Club's annual gift drive for needy children

How I got the picture

Kenna:

"It was late afternoon on a Sunday and it had been raining non-stop for hours after a thaw the day before.

"Kevin O'Connor, one of the reporters at the Herald, told me that firefighters were evacuating Cloverdale Street, a low-lying residential street in Rutland. The mayor was there, the power company was there disconnecting power and firefighters were going door to door evacuating residents.

"With rain pelting down and soaking my cameras, I made it to a covered front porch. The firefighter was crossing in front of the power company truck's headlights, and I knew I had a telling photo.

"If only I could have got him with the baby he was going to rescue, but he got in a truck with the family and brought them to the Red Cross, which happened to be around the corner."




About the others

Honorable mentions went to Kevin Bennett of the Bangor Daily News for the Little Raspy wreck and to Herb Swanson of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald for the skiing Santas.