Walking tree
Photographer: Hong Wan (Honorable Mention)
September, 2025
Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Photo taken on a Tuesday land trust hike. The unusual look of the tree caught my eyes, the possible reason for this shape could be that the tree was grown initially on a dead tree log, when the log rotten away, you got a tree with “legs”.
Laurel on Roaring Brook
Photographer: Kristina White
June 2025Banningwood Preserve
The laurel directs your eye to the water and what lays beyond the curve of the brook.
Ice & Fog on Falls Brook
Photographer: Birgit Musheno
January 31, 2025Private Lyme Habitat
Foggy winter scene on partially-frozen Falls Brook in Lyme on a late afternoon at the end of January.
Roaring Brook Ripples
Photographer: John Gluszak (Photo of Distinction)
July 2025Roaring Brook Preserve
I find woodland photography to be somewhat difficult. Wide shots often do not convey the feeling I get when I'm walking through the woods. When that happens, I tend to look for details in close up images instead. I happened to notice the ripples and the color reflections in the brook created by a stick that got stuck in the flow of the water.
Orb weaver in the sun
Photographer: Bryn Souza
June 25Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Found this sweet little spider showing off its colors in the bright June sun
Early Morning with Tiffany
Photographer: Morgan Regan
9/6/2025Tiffany Farms
Early morning rising dew.
Monarch caterpillar in Grassy Hill Preserve
Photographer: Rochelle Davis (Photo of Distinction)
August 2025Grassy Hill Preserve
The preserve is filled with butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and also full of monarch butterflies laying their eggs on the butterfly weed and the monarch caterpillars eating away on the plant. The upside of not mowing fields with butterfly weed from May through September is that the monarchs can feed and make more butterflies.
Mimicking Mom
Photographer: Rich Sanders
June 14, 2025Private Lyme Habitat – Falls Brook Cove
Just for fun. Every year the swans nesting in Hamburg Cove bring there cygnets into Falls Brook. I choose to interpret this sequence as the little one "learning to be big."
Mushroom tree
Photographer: Hong Wan
September 2025Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Mushroom colony on a tree
Winter sunset on the CT River
Photographer: Athana K Catlett
March 2025
Hadlyme ferry boat launch
Just before the sun set on a still evening in March.
Iced Grasses
Photographer: Birgit Musheno (Photo of Distinction – Honorable mention)
January 12, 2025
Private Lyme habitat, Brush Hill Rd.
January weather creates unique ice forms on dried meadow grass at the edge of a beaver dam.
Closing up for the season
Photographer: Kristina White
September 2025Pleasant valley Preserve
They exemplify the end of one season and ready for another
Dragon Head
Photographer: Kristina White
May 2025Nehantic State Forest
I turned the corner and saw this dragon with its mouth wide open waiting …
It’s the Journey
Photographer: Kristina White
1/20/2025
Pleasant Valley Preserve
Walking through a forest where the snow is still on the branches is a truly special treat
Jurassic Ravine Trail
Photographer: Sue Wyeth (Photo of Distinction)
May 2025Ravine Trail
Hiking on Ravine Trail May 2025
Lost Ladder
Photographer: Birgit Musheno
3/1/2025Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
Old wooden ladder, probably from a long-gone hunting blind, left behind and highlighted in the slanting winter afternoon sun from the White trail in Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve.
Duck Pond
Photographer: Douglas White
July 8, 2025Nehantic State Forest
A view towards a duck house is imbued with rich wetland complexity and patterns. That there were no ducks mattered little…
Monarch on Milkweed
Photographer: Joan Rivington
July 7, 2025My backyard on Blood Street
It made me so happy to see this Monarch enjoying the Milkweed in my butterfly garden.
Sunrise over Lyme Hills
Photographer: Dawn H
May 2025CT Riverfront
Early morning walk along CT riverfront capturing the beauty of sunrise over the Lyme hills
Sun Dappled Roaring Brook #2
Photographer: John Gluszak (Photo of Distinction)
05/2025Banningwood Preserve
Just a dreamy view of the brook while resting on the bench, while walking the preserve trail.
Luff Shores summer evening
Photographer: Lori Lanning from Luff Farms
July 3rd, 2025Luff Shores -Point Penninsula
Kayaking at the end of the day.
Monarch enjoying a meal
Photographer: Rosa Dupre
09/27/2025Beaver Brook, home backyard
As I was walking in my backyard around lunchtime, I saw this beautiful Monarch enjoying the new England Asters.
Lady’s Tresses, a CT native orchid
Photographer: Rochelle Davis
July 2025Grassy Hill Preserve
This orchid is about 12" high and hard to spot but so worth looking for. It is one of dozens of orchids native to Connecticut (Genus Spiranthes).
Ice Cold Plunge Couple
Photographer: Ally Spurling (Photo of Distinction)
C. February 2025
Ely’s Ferry
A chance encounter with this very brave couple breaking the ice drifts to cold plunge together. The sky was so unbelievable I drove down to enjoy the sunset and happened upon them.
Welcome
Photographer: Kristina White
2/9/2025
Pleasant Valley Preserve
It looks like the entrance to an enchanted forest
Tosh assesses the Terrain
Photographer: Sue Wyeth
May 2024Ravine Trail
Hiking with Tosh & friends on Ravine Trail May 22024
Wintertide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
3rd February 2025
Seventh Sister Hill
The eccentric William Gillette, among his many idiosyncracies, in 1914 constructed for himself a mansion, styled to a confused marriage between Belle Époque sensibilities and Transylvanian macabre. As is by now well known, he employed various architectural oddities, with hidden passages, elaborate door locks, and a 3 mile long rail track.
Lighting Lyme
Photographer: Meera Rangwala (Photo of Distinction)
3/2025
Private Lyme Habitat
These witch hazel orange blossoms glow in the sunset. They seem like lanterns lighting our way to a better future.
Youth (17 and younger)
Sultry Day in the Wetlands
Photographer: Douglas White
July 8, 2025Nehantic State Forest
A sultry day in the wetlands
Glide Path
Photographer: S. Martin
May 2023Ram's Horn Creek
In spring’s rhythm, a bonded pair shares the glide path.
Native Bee Balm in the Grassy Hill Preserve
Photographer: Rochelle Davis
August 2025Grassy Hill Preserve
The Grassy Hill Preserve showcases native plants that mix with the nearby human built environment.
Icy Falls
Photographer: Meera Rangwala
2/2025
Banningwood Preserve
Blocks of ice form in the brook, and shape the flow of the water. These blocks have created a mini waterfall.
Youth (17 and younger)
Mt.Laurel blooming
Photographer: jos konst (Photo of Distinction – Honorable Mention)
June 2023
selden preserve
Mt.Laurel blooming along vernal pool
I Spy with my Little Eye…
Photographer: Kristina White (Photo of Distinction)
August 2025John Pritchard Conservation Center
I was watering when I saw our little visitor who was using our place for its home
Springtide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
13th March 2025
Fox Hopyards Golf Course
Small natural creek sandwiched between two heavily developed zoysia grasslands.
Winter Magic on Whalebone Cove
Photographer: Athana K Catlett (Photo of Distinction)
January 2022
Overlooking Whalebone Cove from Joshuatown Rd.
Photo taken from Joshuatown Rd after a snowfall.
