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The Great Canadian Photo Contest: May’s winners

See May’s finalists from Maclean’s photography contest, and check out your June assignment: ‘Road trips’

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At 150, Canada merits the best possible photo album, and Maclean’s wants to capture the country in all its cultural and geographic glory. For each month of 2017, we’ll ask readers to submit photos based on a particular theme. We’ll publish the winning photos in our weekly tablet edition, and online every month. At the end of the year, a gallery show will exhibit all the winning work, and we will announce the single best photo of the year. You take the photos, and we’ll provide a national frame!

For our May photo contest, we asked photographers to capture the best of spring. Below are the top 10 submissions. Here are the top 10 submissions, including the readers’ choice photo, which was voted the most popular on Facebook, and the editor’s choice photo, which we at Maclean’s were most excited about.

READERS’ CHOICE: PHOTOGRAPH BY Curtis Dauphney

Curtis Dauphney

As for the shot, it was taken in Sydney, Nova Scotia, just on a small little sandbar area about 5 minutes from downtown. I’m relatively “new” to photography (first DSLR camera), so the camera used was a Nikon D3300 with an 18-55mm kit lens, shot free-hand (18mm, f/8, 1/13 sec, ISO 100).

EDITOR’S CHOICE: PHOTOGRAPH BY Amy Shaw

This image is of my 5 year old son Carter. I let him stay up late last week and we went out the to park at sunset. IÕm sitting on the ground crouched down with my camera aimed up at him. I wanted him to be a silhouette and had to time it perfectly with him ziplining right in front of the setting sun. The park is in Cumberland, on Vancouver Island, BC.

This image is of my 5 year old son Carter. I let him stay up late last week and we went out the to park at sunset. IÕm sitting on the ground crouched down with my camera aimed up at him. I wanted him to be a silhouette and had to time it perfectly with him ziplining right in front of the setting sun. The park is in Cumberland, on Vancouver Island, BC.

Your June assignment: Road trips

Destinations might offer images, but you can also photograph the trek. Pit stops, pitfalls, or the carnival in the backseat—you might frame a shot with your sunroof or roof rack, or maybe you make a game of it, taking a photo with every left turn, for every dog snout you spot poking out a window, or for every variation of “are we there yet?”

The next assignments will appear on macleans.ca on the first of each month. Readers can also find the assignments by following Maclean’s on Instagram or Twitter, or liking our Facebook page. The assignment will appear in the first tablet edition of the month, as well as in the monthly print issue.

Judging

The Maclean’s photo department will narrow down the submissions to 10 finalists each month. From there, one photographer will win the editor’s choice award. Another photographer will win the readers’ choice award. Readers will vote online by liking a photo on Facebook.

Prizes

Each month, cash prizes will be awarded to the editor’s choice and readers’ choice winners. The winning photos will be published in the tablet edition of Maclean’s. At the end of the year, Maclean’s will exhibit all the winning photos in a gallery show and invite the photographers to attend.

How to submit
Click here for more on how to submit your photos.

Photographers, good luck—and Canada, smile!

Contest closes December 31, 2017 at 11:59 pm ET. Open to Canadian residents (excluding Quebec), over age of majority. Contest consists of 12 individual monthly entry periods. Two winners will be determined per monthly entry period, based on the application of judging criteria and a public voting process. Each prize consists of $250. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received per monthly entry period, on the application of judging criteria, and on the number of eligible votes received by each entry that is short-listed by the judges. Math question must be correctly answered to win. Details and full contest rules available at macleans.ca/photo-contest-rules

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