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In honor of Earth Day, Princeton Hydro held an internal Water-Themed Photo Contest for its employees. We’d like to thank everyone who submitted photos this year. Overall, we received 40 gorgeous water-themed photos from our staff. We have so many talented photographers!
All photos were rated on the following criteria by three judges: Danielle Odom, Darren Rist, and Dana Patterson (see bios below).
Scroll to the bottom to see a gallery of runner-up photos.
Danielle has been an avid outdoorswoman and self-taught naturalist since she was a small child. In 2016, she spent four consecutive months hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, traversing over 2,000 continuous miles through the Mojave Desert, the High Sierras, volcanic terrains, old growth forests, and the Cascades. She earned her B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Environmental Studies, and taught environmental education for five years. One of her favorite lessons to teach was Conservation Photography: How Photography Helped Shape the Conservation Movement. Since the age of four she has entered and placed in local photography contests; she’s the third generation in a family of semi-professional photographers.
Some of Darren’s fondest childhood memories are of fishing with his father and brothers. He’s always loved trout fishing, but it wasn’t until his first year in college that he caught the fly fishing bug…BAD. Darren spent many painstaking hours deciding whether to go to his morning engineering classes at NJIT or the ‘entomology classes’ on one of the many trout rivers in Northern NJ. (The latter usually won out). In 2003 he found himself wanting more than just a career in automation engineering. That was when he decided to buy his first drift boat and began guiding part-time on the fabled rivers of the Catskills and Upper Delaware. Becoming a fly fishing guide has enabled Darren to blend his love of the outdoors, travel, photography, birding, teaching and of course, fly fishing. In addition to guiding, Darren provides fly casting and tying instruction, and is a past president of the North Jersey Chapter of Trout Unlimited. His photography has been published in fly fishing books and periodicals. To learn more about guided fly-fishing trips with Darren, you can reach him at dprist@earthlink.net.
As the Communications Strategist for Princeton Hydro, Dana is a passionate environmental communicator who brings a strong mix of diverse stakeholder engagement experience, coupled with values-based communication strategy. She believes photography plays a strong role in storytelling and enjoys snapping shots of birds and landscapes. She recently completed a Photography course at Camden County College, where she learned both technical and creative ways to make unique photographs. While she considers herself an amateur photographer, she placed in the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters 2016 Photo Contest and is published in Wild New Jersey: Adventures in the Garden State book.
Check out the photos from last year’s photo contest here.
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