Farmers
Calendar contest
Picture your farm in next year’s CWB calendar!
Picture your farm in next year’s CWB calendar!
Now is a great time to take photographs for the 2007-08 CWB calendar. The theme for the new calendar is “Farm Hands”. Feel free to interpret it any way you like.
The deadline isn’t until the end of next March, but great summer and fall photos can only be taken now. To be eligible for the calendar photo contest, all pictures must have been taken within the past two years and must illustrate the theme in some way. An independent panel of judges will select 17 photos for the 2007-08 calendar.
The grand-prize winner will receive a digital camera worth up to $500. Other winners will receive photo shop gift certificates worth $50. The CWB will own all rights relative to the winning photographs, including the right to publish and all associated copyrights. Amateur photographers will be given preference in the selection process.
Entries are limited to five photographs per photographer. CWB employees and their immediate families are not eligible. Please include information about the photograph—when and where it was shot and any other details of interest. Subject consent must be obtained. By submitting a photo, an entrant confirms and represents that appropriate consent has been received. Parental consent is required for subjects under the age of majority.
Your phone number and mailing address must be included for your entry to be considered. Entries must be received on or before Friday, March 30. E-mail entries will not be accepted. Mail photos or CDs to: CWB 2007-08 Calendar Photo Contest, Corporate Communications, PO Box 816, Station Main, Winnipeg, MB, R3C 2P5. If you’d like us to return your photos, please include a self-addressed envelope, stamped with sufficient postage.
Good luck and happy shooting!
Tips for digital photos:
- Use a 3.2 mega-pixel (or higher) camera. The setting for most 3.2 mega-pixel cameras should be on HQ (highest quality). The resolution must be high enough to allow quality prints at a minimum of 300 DPI to be reproduced at a size of 10 by 13.5 inches.
- Do not use Photoshop or other photographic software tools to retouch your photos, as this often shows up badly on reproductions of larger-sized high resolution.
- Burn your photos to a labeled CD and use a padded mailing envelope. Please send hard-copy prints of your photo entries along with the CD. CDs will not be returned. Please include a note with information about the photograph and its subject (see above).
Tips for prints:
- Please include the negative strip with each print. Slides will also be accepted. Please handle your photos carefully in order to preserve their quality.
- Label each photo with your name, but please do not use ballpoint pen, as the ink can transfer to other photographs. Use a special photo marking pencil or a fine point permanent market, making sure the ink is dry before stacking photographs.
- Do not use paper clips, which can damage the photos. Instead, number photos on the back and supply accompanying information on a separate piece of paper that includes numbers corresponding to the appropriate photo.
- Include a sheet of stiff cardboard in the envelope to protect photos from bending in the mail.
- Please ensure information about the photograph and its subject is included (see above).
Calendar contest 2006-07
Laura Ellis's "seven kids having a heyday" is the grand-prize winner of the 2006-07 CWB calendar contest.
"I like the background and the kids getting together," said Ellis, who farms with her husband Scott at Kildeer, SK. "That doesn't happen much now because everyone's so split apart."
"Three of those kids were down visiting from Balgonie. The dads of all of them grew up together."
The background to Ellis's photo is the wall of the old house on the Ellis's 5,000-acre mixed farm, now used as a grain bin for cattle feed. The Ellises grow lentils, peas, wheat and durum. Two grown sons are away working on oil rigs. Two younger daughters are still at home.
Laura Ellis, the grand prize winner of the 2006-07 calendar contest.
Judges for this year's calendar photo contest were Craig Douglas, award-winning photographer and eastern regional manager of the CWB's farm business representatives, and the CWB's in-house graphic designers Barbara Chabih and Roberta Rackal. The judges chose Ellis's photo from 545 entries submitted by a total of 167 photographers.
"It's such a fun photo," said senior graphic designer Barbara Chabih. "The kids are completely natural and goofy. We loved the way the bright colours of their clothes pop away from the weathered greys of the shingles; the contrast between the kids and the old building expresses this year's "generations" theme perfectly."
As the grand-prize winner, Laura receives a digital camera worth $500. Other winners receive a $50 Don's Photo gift certificate for each winning entry.
Here are this year's winners:
- Kevin Anderson of Briercrest, SK, for his photo of Jayden lying on a canola swath
- Fawne Inkster of Watrous, SK, for her photo of family members playing hockey on a slough
- Diana Bown of Ranfurly, AB, for her photo of three generations of family at harvest
- Edwin Crook of Benito, MB, for two photos: Inglis elevators; and Don Ellingson moving logs with horse Flame
- Laura Ellis of Kildeer, SK, for farm kids on a fence
- Lori Ann Frey of Watrous, SK, for her photo of sons Clay and Raynor in cowboy hats
- Mary Groening of Killarney, MB, for her photo of Vern Groening in the window of an old barn
- Brenda Hunter of Kenton, MB, for her photo of a family field supper
- Carolyn Lavich of Brookdale, MB, for her photo of Kayleigh, Tyson and Kristin in a snow fort
- Cheryl Lorenz of Raymore, SK, for Spencer and the pumpkins
- Bridget MacDougall of Starbuck, MB, for children climbing on an old truck
- Shelly Suitor of Blackie, AB, for her photo of Austin and dog playing on bales
- Ingrid Suitor of Blackie, AB, for her photo of Joey and Kylie playing in mud puddle
- Les Wiebe of Portage la Prairie, MB, for his photo of two boys and a school bus
- Raewyn Wiebe, of Langley, BC, for two photos: Sarah Jean Schnee in white cowboy hat with father Vincent Schnee; and Maia Wiebe following in her father's footsteps