D&R Greenway Land Trust is partnering with Princeton Photography Club to present an exhibition with photographs that celebrate the beauty and diversity of D&R Greenway preserves.
The exhibition features 35 photographs of 10 D&R Greenway preserves taken by Princeton Photography Club members. The exhibition is on display in the Marie L. Matthews Gallery on the second floor of the Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton. It is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through the end of September.
The center will host a meet-the-photographers reception on Thursday, Sept. 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. There is no charge to attend, but reservations must be made in advance at drgreenway.org.
Princeton Photography Club has met monthly at D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center for more than a dozen years, with a break during the pandemic. The organization is led today by Dave Burwell and in earlier years by Sheila and Carl Geisler.
“This exhibit features many attributes of the land: birds, history, trees, native plants — as it exudes the joy and peace that can be found in nature,” said Linda J. Mead, president and CEO of D&R Greenway Land Trust, in a statement. “Take time to read the artists’ statements about their experience of visiting and photographing our preserves. Special thanks to the thirteen Princeton Photography Club photographers for taking us on a visual journey through D&R Greenway preserves.”
Exhibiting photographer Rebecca DePorte had the following to say about St. Michaels Farm Preserve:
“When I moved to Hopewell from NYC in 2021, I was delighted to discover a magical place filled with warblers and bluebirds flitting around a community garden, a family of flickers frolicking in a large oak tree, harriers flying low over the fields, and paths leading to streams and fields with purple martins.
“My happiest moment in this 400-plus-acre wonderland was when I saw the kestrels. These little falcons, birds I first saw in NYC, had instantly become my favorites. Seeing them at St. Michaels Farm Preserve felt like a sign that I had moved to the right place.”
Exhibiting photographer Charmaine Hofmann said the following about Iron Mike Trail:
“Iron Mike Trail is an enchanted woodland path, all earthy and musty in the moist late spring when I visited in May. The trail begins and ends with rustic wooden arbors that greet you and assure you will enter a special place full of mushrooms, lichen, leaves, and woodland flowers and creatures.
“The trail is a warm, welcoming, woodsy excursion full of treasures for those who want to look and learn.”
