Photo #1 is a crop from a wide-angle shot and shows Mars before the occultation; this wasn't taken at home but after I had driven downtown to attend a fundraiser, where it had cleared somewhat. The photo makes the occultation look imminent, but that's because the Moon was highly overexposed in the humid air--there was still about 45 minutes to go.

I got back home an hour later with 10 minutes to spare and set up a small scope for egress, but in the brief time it took to prepare a timer to time the reappearance, Mars popped out early from behind the Moon and went unseen in the scope by me. About a minute after re-emergence I could spot Mars in 7x35 binoculars, but 15 minutes passed before I could spot it next to the Moon naked eye due to the humidity haze. That's when I took photo #2; the very brief exposure nicely hid the glow around the Moon and still recorded Mars.

Photo data:
Panasonic FZ300 superzoom, handheld
#1: @54mm EFL, (f/2.8, 1/20 sec, ISO 1600)
#2: @600mm EFL, (f/3.5, 1/2000 sec, ISO 400)