Six local land trusts invite amateur photographers of all ages to enter their favorite photographs of scenes in the towns of Essex, East Haddam, Salem,Old Saybrook, Lyme and Old Lyme in the Land Trusts Photo Contest. Children are especially encouraged to submit photos. Participants need not live in the towns of Lyme, Old Lyme, Essex, Salem, Old Saybrook and East Haddam, but photos must be of scenes in one of these five towns. Land Trusts in these towns sponsor this photo contest.
Submissions will be accepted through Feb. 28, 2018. Contest rules are available online at this link.
Contest awards are being funded with the generous support of commercial sponsors: RiverQuest /Connecticut River Expeditions, Ballek’s Garden Center in East Haddam, Essex Savings Bank, Evan Griswold at Coldwell Banker, Essex Steam Train & Riverboat, Hamburg Cove Endodontics. Lorensen Auto Group, Morgan Stanley, and Alison Mitchell in memory of her husband John G. Mitchell. John G. Mitchell was a life-long environmentalist and former photo contest judge.
$100, $75, $50 and $25 cash prizes will be awarded in each of five categories. The categories are Landscape/Waterscape, Plants, Wildlife, and Cultural/Historic (human interaction with nature, including domestic animals and buildings), for participants 15 years of age or older. Photographers 14 years old or younger may enter photos on any of these subjects in the Youth Category.
All entered photographs will be displayed and winners will be announced at a public reception Friday, April 6, 2018.