Photo of the Month: December 2001
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.
A year-end tally: These were among the 1,880 photos filed by NNE photographers in 2001. Thanks to them for providing a resource that benefits the entire cooperative.
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Stephen M. Katz
Bangor (Maine) Daily News,
Honorable Mentions
Jonathan Adams
Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine
Ely Daly-Rancourt, 7, of Waterville, attends the tree-lighting ceremony Dec. 13 outside the Hospice Volunteers of Waterville office. The annual lights-for-life event commemorates loved ones who have died, as did Ely's twin sister Emma.
Steve Hooper
Keene (N.H.) Sentinel
Ducks excepted, walking on the ice was discouraged because warm weather had prevented a safe coating from forming on Robin Hood Pond in Keene, as this Dec. 17 shot illustrated.
How I got the picture
Katz:
"It was one of those early morning calls that is never fun to wake up to, 'There's a house fire on the west side of Bangor,' was about all I could make out at six o'clock in the morning. It wasn't my shift, but I felt guilty waking the on-call shooter for what more often than not is nothing. I was awake so I figured I'd check it out.
"The sun was just starting to light up the sky when I arrived minutes after the first wave of firefighters. Strobing the scene yielded ordinary looking images with hotspots from the uniforms' reflectors. But using available light at a sixth of a second (800 asa) lended a truly ethereal look to the images.
"While I shot four 128 MB cards that morning, the photo that ran on the wire was one of the first ten frames."
Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine
Keene (N.H.) Sentinel
How I got the picture
Katz:
"It was one of those early morning calls that is never fun to wake up to, 'There's a house fire on the west side of Bangor,' was about all I could make out at six o'clock in the morning. It wasn't my shift, but I felt guilty waking the on-call shooter for what more often than not is nothing. I was awake so I figured I'd check it out.
"The sun was just starting to light up the sky when I arrived minutes after the first wave of firefighters. Strobing the scene yielded ordinary looking images with hotspots from the uniforms' reflectors. But using available light at a sixth of a second (800 asa) lended a truly ethereal look to the images.
"While I shot four 128 MB cards that morning, the photo that ran on the wire was one of the first ten frames."