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Riverhead Library photo show winners selected

By Barbaraellen Koch

The winners of the 49th annual Friends of the Riverhead Free Library Photo Show were announced at the event’s opening Friday night in the Elizabeth Fox Overton Gallery. 

The contest is run by chairwoman Thelma Booker, committee members Laurel Sisson, Arleen Peck, Claire Boehle, Eleanor Koller, Alison McCabe and Ron Ondrovic, and library director Joy Rankin. There were 90 entries this year in the show’s seven categories: animals, landscape, nature, people, abstractions/manipulations, flowers/gardens and structures/still life. The judges for this year’s show were Adelaide Amend and Susan Ormano.

The Best of Show award went to Meghann Belser of Mattituck for a portrait of a horse in the animal category and The Friends Choice award went to Jon Schusteritsch of Cutchogue for a landscape scene of docks and the bay at sunrise in New Suffolk.

The show will hang through Friday Nov. 7 during regular library hours.

Friends of the Library Photo Show chairwoman Thelma Booker places the 'Best of Show' ribbon on Meghann Belser's portrait of a horse. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
Friends of the Library Photo Show chairwoman Thelma Booker places the ‘Best of Show’ ribbon on Meghann Belser’s portrait of a horse. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
Jon Schusteritsch of Cutchogue posed with his children Max, 1 1/2, and Zoey, 4, by his photo chosen as the Friends Choice award for a landscape scene of docks and the bay at sunrise in New Suffolk. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
Jon Schusteritsch of Cutchogue posed with his children Max, 1 1/2, and Zoey, 4, by his photo chosen as the Friends Choice award for a landscape scene of docks and the bay at sunrise in New Suffolk. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
Roxie Shepish (left) and Theresa Gallo, both of Riverhead, admiring the animal photo entries. Ms. Shepish won a second place award in the abstractions/manipulations category. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
Roxie Shepish (left) and Theresa Gallo, both of Riverhead, admiring the animal photo entries. Ms. Shepish won a second place award in the abstractions/manipulations category. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)

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