Get Your Cameras Ready, Shutterbugs

Hauppauge residents who have spent time behind the lens have an opportunity to show off their photography talents. 

y is accepting entries for its sixth annual Lustberg Amateur Photography Contest through May 1. The search is on for a photograph that brings  you into the picture, and demonstrates essential photography skills. 

Hauppauge's Friends of the Arts sponsor the contest in honor of Helen and Jerome Lustberg, two Hauppauge residents who were instrumental in the founding of the public library, according to Diane Leddy, adult and senior services librarian. Helen was a pioneering member of the Friends of the Arts, who sought to create a photography contest in the name of her husband after he had passed, a mission taken up by the organization after she passed. 

Leddy said entries will be judged according to three primary factors: clarity, composition, and subject matter. District cardholders can enter up to five photographs in the contest, at submission fee of $5 each, to be judged. All submissions must be a printed 8-inch by 10-inch photograph, either in color or black and white. 

Winners will be announced at the annual gala scheduled for May 14, recognized the Lustberg Amateur Photography Contest. The first-place winner will have their print matted and framed, and will be hung inthe library alongside previous years in the common area's gallery. Second and third place will also get their photos matted and framed for them.  

Previous winners include:

• 2006 – Peace Rose by Janet Hovnanian
• 2007 – Summertime Fun by Raj Cahari
• 2008 – A Summer’s Afternoon by Frances A. Sticone
• 2009 – Old Barn by Christopher Utino
• 2010 – Giggles by Lily Klima