Do you want your photo to be featured in the 2024 Colwood Calendar? Now is your chance to submit those fantastic Colwood images taken throughout 2023. We're looking for photos showcasing the different times, locations, and seasons of the past year. Winners will receive public recognition on our website and social media along with some great prizes! 

Everyone can get involved!

Enter photos: simply upload your best photos from 2023 that highlight the beauty and vibrance of Colwood 

Vote for photos: scroll through the photo entries and vote for your favourites.

How we select winning photos to feature in the calendar 

The following criteria will be taken into account:

  • Subject matter: The photo must feature a location within Colwood.
  • Composition, creativity and impact: Featured photos will be clear, balanced, and pleasing to the eye, reflecting beauty, positive energy, interesting view points or intriguing subjects that make people want to visit Colwood.
  • Technical requirements: photographs must be submitted in high resolution digital format of between 300 and 600 dpi and horizontally orientated. Submitted photos must not be currently held in copyright by any individual or organization and must be previously unpublished work.
  • Eligibility: Professional and non-professional photographers are eligible and welcome to enter. Employees and representatives of the City of Colwood may participate but are not eligible to win.
  • Judges selections: The City of Colwood shall determine winner eligibility in its sole and absolute discretion. All decisions made by the judging team are final. 
  • Notifying winners: Winners will be contacted by email, with winning photos published at www.colwood.ca and shared on @CityofColwood Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, and in the annual calendar. Winning photographers may be asked to supplement their submission with an expanded description. 
  • Prizes: Each winner will receive a gift card to a local Colwood business.
  • Prize limit: Each photographer is eligible to win, at most, three entries for this calendar contest.
  • Rights to images: By entering your image in the Colwood Calendar Photo Contest, you grant the City of Colwood a royalty-free, nonexclusive right, in perpetuity, to use the photograph in print and online City of Colwood non-commercial communications and use your name in connection with the Photo Contest.

Questions

Questions and inquiries about contest rules can be emailed to Britney Stojke, Engagement Assistant at bstojke@colwood.ca.