2008 Essex Heritage
Photo Contest Winners

Sponsored by:

Derby Wharf, Lighthouse Beach, Strawberry Hill Trail . . . Essex County photographers searched out the best and most beautiful locations for their award-winning submissions to this year’s Essex National Heritage Area Photo Contest. Sponsored by Essex Heritage and Hunt’s Photo and Video, the contest winners are now exhibited at the National Park Service Salem Regional Visitor Center (2 New Liberty Street, Salem, MA).

Held in conjunction with Essex Heritage’s Photo Safari program, qualifying photographs were required to be taken in the Essex National Heritage Area and represent one of three categories:  “Winter Wonderland,” “On the Trail” and “TRAILS & SAILS.” 

The 2008 Grand Prize is an Olympus 2-Lens Kit. Prizes for each category included a digital camera package (first place) and $100 gift certificate (second place) both donated by Hunt’s Photo and Video, and America the Beautiful – National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass (third place).

Grand Prize

Steve Harrington
Derby Wharf

TRAILS & SAILS

First Prize

Gregg Mazzotta
Trail to Saugus Iron Works

Second Prize

Susan Plutsky
Valley View Farm

Third Prize

June Rhodes
Guinea Hens

On the Trail

First Prize

Marion J Bayly
North Shore Kayak Outdoor Center, Bearskin Neck, Rockport

Second Prize

Joseph M Carlin
Strawberry Hill Trail, Ipswich

Third Prize

Ehren Flynn
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Newburyport

Winter Wonderland

First Prize

Ann Wilson
Essex Shipbuilding - Winter

Second Prize

Zac Peterson
Essex Harbor

Third Prize

E.B. Teele
Lighhouse Beach, Annisquan