Local land preservation organization the Wareham Land Trust has announced the winners of its photo contest.

Wareham Land Trust Board member John Wiliszowski said the contest was “sort of an invitation to … take a camera and enjoy the land.”

“We had 127 entries, and all of them were phenomenal,” Wiliszowski said. “When we sat down to judge them, we had a genuinely difficult time.”

There were 19 winners in the three different categories. The contest winners will be officially recognized and given their awards Dec. 6, when the Trust opens the Tweedy & Barnes Conservation Area.

The Trust purchased the area last year, Board member and project head John Browning said, because it lay between two other pieces of Trust land, and the organization wanted to connect the two to make a contiguous conservation area. The area has a length of old railroad track on it, along which people may walk.

Wiliszowski said the property runs from Blackmoor Pond Road to the Sippican River, and that the Trust will do both short and long guided walks the day of the land’s official opening.

“You walk down along the bed, and it’s nice, because it’s raised,” Wiliszowski said. “You can do it in a pair of flats. You don’t need tennis shoes.”

The winners of the photo contest is as follows:

The Solitude and Serenity of Nature

1st Place – Dean Martin
2nd Place – Robin Allen
3rd Place – Deborah Pacini
Honorable Mentions – Dean Martin, Amanda Reynolds, Jessica Lagneau, Betsy Briggi, Lisa Russell, Laura Troll, Corvus Sylvia

People Enjoying the Land

1st Place – Jessica Lagneau
2nd Place – Robert Price
3rd Place – Lee Sayers
Honorable Mentions – Mary Hanlon, Lisa Russell, Robin Allen

The Solitude and Serenity of Nature (12 & under)

1st Place – Ethan Hamel (7 years old)

The ceremony will take place at the 1 p.m. opening of the Tweedy & Barnes land on Dec. 6. For more information, visit the Wareham Land Trust’s website.