No moon light, to shoot these Elver netters, I had to get close enough for their headlamps to provide the only light. With the camera on a tripod, a wide angle lens with the smallest # aperture, the best shutter speed I could get was 2 seconds. A lot can go on in 2 seconds, and I couldn't really tell these dip netters to stay still(I scared one woman half out of her wits as it was,...) I hit the cameras shutter with the 2 sec timer, and backed away. Here they are in their hunting positions looking for a black pin head sized dot, swimming through the water, which is the eye of the tiny glass eels, called Elvers in Maine. I think the eels come in with the tide and for a few hours, they start heading up stream. You can see when the eels are there, the headlamps start tracing arcs in the dark as the nets sweep through the water. Almost surreal, it's quite a sight in the dark.

Here's a guy a few feet away dumping the catch into his bucket. You can't see them, but he can. There's a good reason to get out there for the lucky few that are issued licenses(only grandfathered, no more are allowed). This years price for the fishermen is $2,000.00 per pound.