Young Shutterbugs Help Save the Places You Love

Three Raleigh students took home prizes in the statewide "Saving the Places You Love" photo contest sponsored by North Carolina's 23 local land trusts and the Touchstone Energy electricity cooperatives. Victoria Cox, a home school student (at right), was awarded first and second place in the Central NC Middle School category for her photos "Nature's Gifts" and "Places for your toes."

Victoria Cox, a home school student, receives her two photo awards from TLC's Executive Director Kevin Brice (left) and Triangle Greenways Council president Don Belk.

Two Ravenscroft School students also snapped up prizes. Svyatoslav Petrov (below, second from left) took third place in the Central NC High School category for "Natural Curiosity," and Laura Gillespie (below, second from right) took third place in the Central NC Middle School category for "God's Masterpiece."

The Ravenscroft winners are pictured below receiving their awards from Triangle Greenways Council president Don Belk (left) and TLC Executive Director Kevin Brice (right). Their middle school science teacher, Marcia Ostendorff, joins the group.

***To see these winning photographs and others from around the state, click here.