The Bainbridge Island Land Trust is looking for photographers to help it create a community photo album to help celebrate its 25th anniversary of land conservation on the island.

Dedicated to preserving natural open spaces in our environment, the land trust has acquired much of the land for some of Bainbridge’s most popular parks and trails as well as helping to preserve privately held natural landscapes for future generations.

Photographers of all kinds are welcome to contribute their favorite shots of landscapes and details of land trust-related properties. There are no age restrictions, and photos taken on professional equipment and amateur smart phone shots are equally welcome. Digitally altered pictures are also fine so long as they still convey something about the real appearance of the landscape.

Especially welcome are pictures of people enjoying these spaces. Shots of individual plants, birds, and other animals are also encouraged.

The locales to be featured in this scrapbook are accessible through the trails at Gazzam Lake, the Peters’ Property, the Close Property, the Grand Forest West, Grand Forest East, the Hilltop, Pritchard Park, Meigs Farm Park, Hawley Cove Park, Ted Olsen Park, Rockaway Beach Park and Blakely Harbor Park.

Individual landowners with Bainbridge Island Land Trust conservation easements may also submit photographs of their own properties if they wish.

Submissions should be in JPEG format, but not otherwise compressed or shrunk, and sent using the Photo Album form on the land trust website at www.bi-landtrust.org/photos/.  On that page is a list of the properties and a map showing their locations.

All acceptable photos will be mounted soon after they are submitted on the Bainbridge Island Land Trust Photo Album page at www.facebook.com/biltphotos.

Contributors grant the Bainbridge Island Land Trust nonexclusive rights to use their photos in land trust publications and for other publicity. Contributors retain all other rights to their work.