From Kennebec Journal staff photographer Andy Molloy. "Everybody was seeing the same thing at the same time. I thought it was really cool that we were sharing the same thing." Andy used 500mm and 600mm lenses, shooting at f/4, and shutter speeds ranging from 1/500th to 1/15 of a second. He also changed the ISO rating from 200 to 2000 to accommodate the moon's decreasing brightness. As the the lunar eclipse progressed, the moon got so dark that a higher ISO was needed to use a shutter speed fast enough to freeze the moving moon's image.

Ironically, Andy had to get down on his hands and knees to shoot the moon. It was so high in the sky that his three-foot-long tripod-mounted lens and camera was just waist-high at the viewfinder.

From Morning Sentinel staff photographer Jeff Pouland. "I felt compelled to photograph the lunar eclipse because the weather cooperated. Wednesday night the sky was incredibly clear and the scene was too beautiful to pass up. I started taking photos around 9:20 p.m. and finished taking shots around 10:15 p.m.

"Because the angle of the moon was so high, I was unable to use a tripod. Instead, I bundled up and laid down on my front porch. I used a 500mm lens with a 1.4x teleconverter. I turned in four photos to show the progression of the earth's shadow moving across the moon. My first exposure was ISO 1600 1/400 sec at f/5.6. Photo number two was ISO 1600 at 1/13 sec. at f/5.6. Photo number three was ISO 1600 at 1/5 sec. at f/5.6 and my final exposure was ISO 1600 at 1/5 sec. at f/5.6. Since I was using a big lens and slow shutter speeds, I used my motor drive to capture some photos without motion blur. I also used BRAS from my days as a boy scout to hold the camera as still as possible. That's: Breath, Relax, Aim and Shoot."

From Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel chief photographer Jim Evans: "I was trying to show the eclipse happening in our area. Colby College's well-known weather vane would work well, I hoped. Luckily you can park nearly anywhere you want at Colby that time of night (as long as you don't leave your car there too long), so I drove right up to Miller Library. My fingers were numb by the time I got my metal tripod set up and camera mounted, but the passing students who were watching the sky and commenting on the experience made up for the hassle.

"The moon moves slowly across the sky and the weather vane spins with a slight breeze so making a night photo is a bit tricky. Boosting the ISO to 800 allowed me to shoot at f/22 at 1/20th of a second while using a 400mm lens and a tripod. Although I was hoping for more detail in the moon, I liked the slight blurring I got because of the feeling of this fleeting event. That's the sort of happy accident I hope for."