Press launch shared by the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, August 23, 2024. Picture courtesy of Susquehanna Greenway Partnership.
The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership (SGP) is happy to announce the winners of the Thirteenth Annual Susquehanna Greenway Picture Contest.
Every year, the photograph contest attracts a whole bunch of pictures from throughout the Susquehanna Greenway, which runs alongside the Susquehanna River all through Pennsylvania. Entries had been introduced to a choose group of judges the place they based mostly their selections on adherence to the class theme, composition, and high quality.
This 12 months’s classes included Susquehanna Landmarks, Treasured River Cities, Susquehanna Adventures, and Wildlife. The judges noticed a few of the contest’s best pictures and it was no simple job to pick out the winners.
“Serving to to evaluate this 12 months’s SGP Picture Contest was a bittersweet expertise for me,” explains graphic designer and long-time river fanatic, Brian Swisher—a choose on this 12 months’s panel. “Our lengthy, deliberative, collaborative choice course of resulted in winners which can be stunning, inspiring pictures of life within the Susquehanna Greenway. I’m very happy with our selections. However there have been so many different distinctive entries deserving of recognition. It was actually onerous to reward only some, however what a privilege it was to have the ability to see and revel in all the gallery. Congratulations and ‘Thank You’ to all of the photographers! Your work honors the Susquehanna.”
Emily Musser’s photograph from Middletown, PA was named the general Grand Prize winner and 1st Place winner within the Adventures Class. The picture depicts her canine ‘River’ having his very personal river journey searching for minnows and crayfish within the sunshine after a passing storm. You possibly can see Emily’s photograph and all the opposite winners on SGP’s web site at susquehannagreenway.org/Thirteenth-annual-winners and on SGP’s Fb web page.
Along with receiving money prizes, the competition winners may have their photographs printed, framed, and displayed as a part of a touring gallery that can exhibit throughout the Susquehanna Greenway all year long.
“The photograph contest gives a key touchpoint for individuals in places all alongside the river,” explains SGP Director of Communications & Outreach, Alana Jajko, “Because the touring gallery strikes from place to put so too do the scenes of the Susquehanna, encouraging viewers to find the wonder and assets of the Susquehanna River.”
“From cities like Pittston and Harrisburg to the scenic magnificence from Clearfield to Lancaster counties, this 12 months’s winners lined an unlimited geography, making for a collage of photographs that actually showcases the big variety of landscapes inside the Susquehanna Greenway.”
Along with the profitable pictures, 12 Honorable Mentions had been chosen by the judges to be voted on by the general public to pick out three Individuals’s Alternative Winners for 1st, 2nd, and third Place in that class. Votes might be solid on Fb by “Like”-ing the photographs you assume must be framed and included in SGP’s Touring Picture Contest Gallery! Voting ends 7 PM (EST) on Sunday, August twenty fifth and might be accessed on SGP’s Fb web page.
The Susquehanna Greenway is a hall of related trails, parks, river entry factors, and communities, linking individuals to the pure and cultural treasures of the Susquehanna River. The mission of the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership is to proceed to develop the Greenway by constructing connections alongside the Susquehanna River, inspiring individuals to have interaction with the outside, and remodeling communities into locations the place individuals need to stay, work, and discover. Be taught extra at susquehannagreenway.org.
Media Contact: Alana Jajko, Director of Communications and Outreach ([email protected])
