Robert Terrano (East Windsor) earned an Honorable Mention for “The Art of Dance.”
Lionel Goodman (Princeton) was selected for the Princeton Photography Club Award for “Loneliness of Nightfall.”
Kapu Patel (West Windsor), second from right, received a Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission Purchase Award for “Floating at Dusk.” She is pictured with Nora Añanos , Laura Desai and gallery director Dylan Wolfe.
Charles Plohn (Princeton) won an Honorable Mention and a Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission Purchase Award for “D&R Canal.”
Jay Brandinger (Pennington), third from left, won Best in Show for his photo “Threshing Wheat.” He is pictured with Nora Añanos and Tricia Fagan of the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, gallery director Dylan Wolfe and juror Michael Mancuso.
Mercer County Community College Gallery director Dylan Wolfe awarded the winners of the My Mercer photography contest on Nov. 20.
Wolfe announced the winners at the opening of My Mercer: Mercer County Photography Exhibition, which commemorates the county’s 150th anniversary. The exhibition features 49 photographs of the people, places, things and events that make Mercer County a special place to live, work, study and enjoy.
Trenton Times photographer Michael Mancuso served as the show’s juror.
Jay Brandinger of Pennington won Best in Show for “Threshing Wheat,” one of more than 100 photos he has taken as a volunteer at Howell Living History Farm over the past four years. According to Brandinger, the photo collection has recently been published in a book entitled Howell Living History Farm: Preserving Traditional Farming.
Juror’s Awards were presented to two Keith Swango of Ewing for “Battle of Trenton” and Richard DeFalco of Princeton for “Carnegie Daybreak.”
Honorable Mentions included Robert Terrano of East Windsor for “The Art of Dance,” Harvey Steinberg of Lawrenceville for “Canal Poetry,” Jody Kendall of Princeton for “Alone” and Charles Plohn of Princeton for “D&R Canal.” Plohn also won a Purchase Award.
The Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, the exhibition’s co-sponsor, selected eight photos for Purchase Awards. Winners are Elsie Allen of Princeton for “Petals in DR Canal,” Cheryl Bomba of Pennington for “Our Trenton,” Bill Felder of Lawrenceville for “Late Summer at the Pole Farm,” Joseph Gilchrist of Hamilton for “Re-enactor Battle of Trenton,” Kapu Patel of West Windsor for “Floating at Dusk,” Anne Stefane of Lawrenceville for “Trenton Storefront” and Larry Straus of Ewing for “Mercer Oak.”
The photos selected for Purchase Awards will become part of the county’s permanent collection.
The Princeton Photography Club Award went to Lionel Goodman for “Loneliness of Nightfall.” It was presented by Carl Geisler, the club’s president.
The show is on display at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College through Dec. 18. The MCCC Gallery is located on the second floor of the Communication Building on Mercer’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.
More information is online at mccc.edu/gallery.
