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2008 Essex Heritage
Photo Contest Winners

2009 Photo Contest

Photographers, get snapping! We are pleased to announce our 2009 Essex Heritage Photography Contest. Contest rules, regulations and applications will be available on this site in January, 2009.

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



grand prize
Steve Harrington
Derby Wharf




TRAILS & SAILS

First Prize
1st prize t&s
Gregg Mazzotta
Trail to Saugus Iron Works


Second Prize
2nd prize t&s
Susan Plutsky
Valley View Farm


Third Prize
3d prize t&s
June Rhodes
Guinea Hens


On the Trail

First Prize
1st prize on trail
Marion J Bayly
North Shore Kayak Outdoor Center, Bearskin Neck, Rockport


Second Prize
2nd prize on trail
Joseph M Carlin
Strawberry Hill Trail, Ipswich


Third Prize
Ehren Flynn
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Newburyport


Winter Wonderland

First Prize
1st prize winter
Ann Wilson
Essex Shipbuilding - Winter


Second Prize
2nd prize winter
Zac Peterson
Essex Harbor


Third Prize
3d prize winter
E.B. Teele
Lighhouse Beach, Annisquan