Some photos will appear in township calendar
On Dec. 19, the Farms and Barns of the Hopewell Valley Photo Contest Awards ceremony took place at the Hopewell Township Municipal Building.
Mayor Jon Edwards announced the following winners:
In the Adult Category: First Place Black & White, Maryellen DeMarco for her photograph of a barn on Mine Road, "The Face"; Second Place Black & White, Justin Warias, for his photograph of a barn on Federal City Road; Third Place Black & White, Maryellen DeMarco, for her photograph of a barn on Woosamonsa Road.
In the Adult Category: First Place Color, Richard Grant, for his photograph of Southwind Farm on Burd Road; Second Place Color, Alice Brandinger, for her photograph of the Watershed Organic Farm on Wargo Road; Third Place Color, Margaret V. Rockey, for her photograph of a field off of Pennington-Titusville Road.
In the Junior Category: First Place Black & White, Matt Kassell, for his photograph of the John Hart Barn on Hart Avenue.
The judges also selected seven entries from the adult category meriting honorable mention awards. These entries were photographs of: a barn and field on Federal City Road taken by Justin Warias, Duncraven Stables taken by Alice Brandinger, Kerr Ridge farm on Pennington-Rocky Hill Road and Howell Living History Farm on Hunter Road taken by Jay J. Brandinger, a red barn with horses taken by Maryellen DeMarco, the barn at the pole farm at Mercer County Park NW by Richard Grant and a farm on Old Mill Road taken by Victoria Johnsey.
The contest was promoted by the Hopewell Township Committee to increase awareness of the agricultural landscapes and structures that exist in the Hopewell Valley and the need to preserve them.
Twenty-one residents from the Hopewell Valley participated by submitting 46 entries.
Ricardo Barros, a landscape photographer and principal photographer for the Grounds for Sculpture; Clem Fiori, a photographer of landscapes and author of several photographic journals on the vanishing landscapes of New Jersey; Frank Flegeal, Hopewell Valley schools media specialist, television and film teacher; and Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, photography teacher at Princeton Day School, donated their services as judges for the contest.
The winning entries and those meriting honorable mentions can be seen in the 2003 Hopewell Township Calendar and are on exhibit in the Township Committee Conference Room in the Municipal Building, 201 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road. Later this year, the exhibit will be displayed at facilities throughout the Hopewell Valley.