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The 2025 FOPOS Photo Contest Starts NOW

Show Us What Preservation Means To You!
The 2025 FOPOS Photo Contest Has Begun.

We're thrilled to announce the official launch of our 10th annual Perspectives on Preservation photo contest.

Grab your camera (or iPhone) and come explore the beauty of the Mountain Lakes Preserve. You can start submitting photos now, until October 12th. We can’t wait to see the natural wonders you discover! Each year, photo entries showcase the diverse forms of beauty photographers find in and around the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. The contest builds awareness of the Preserve's role in protecting biodiversity and enhancing the quality of life in the Princeton community.

Entries will be judged on their aesthetic merit, creativity, and originality and how they help to celebrate the Mountain Lakes Open Space Area as a refuge for nature and visitors. One winning photograph will be chosen in each of the three categories and the winners will receive $100 in merchandise from REI. In addition to the winning photographs, approximately twenty photos from the submissions will be selected for FOPOS’s annual photo exhibition in December 2025 at the Mountain Lakes House. A special thanks to REI for their continued support of this contest through the donation of prizes for our contest winners.

Adult photographers (17 and over) are invited to submit up to three photographs of the Mountain Lakes Open Space Area, which comprises the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, Mountain Lakes North, John Witherspoon Woods, Community Park North, Tusculum Preserve, Pettoranello Gardens, and the J. Seward Johnson, Sr. Trail & Boardwalk.

Student photographers (16 and under) are invited to compete in the contest to win gift cards from Princeton-based businesses: jaZams, LiLLiPiES, and the bent spoon.

Photos for submission can be taken at any time of year during the past three years as long as they have not been submitted in a previous FOPOS photo contest. 

Entries must be submitted by midnight on Sunday, October 12, 2025.

For contest rules, please visit fopos.org. Questions? email photos@fopos.org.