Cast your vote for the Public Favourites in Canada-wide lake photo challenge
Banner photo by Olga Liversuch, 2024 Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge.
Immerse yourself in the beauty of Canada’s lakes and explore the challenges they face with over 400 captivating photo entries in Living Lakes Canada’s 4th Annual Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge. The online gallery is brimming with breathtaking mountain lakes, wading Great Blue Herons, curious river otters, and much more. If you cherish lakes and their rich ecosystems, cast your votes and help choose the Public Favourite winners!
Hosted by award-winning water science and stewardship non-profit Living Lakes Canada, the Photo Challenge celebrates lakes across Canada and raises awareness around what’s threatening their incredible biodiversity. This year’s challenge, in partnership with the Canadian Conservation Photographers Collective, encouraged participants to follow ethical nature photography practices, ensuring the well-being and respect for the environment and wildlife.
The photo challenge includes four categories: Lake Landscapes, Lake Biodiversity, Lake Impacts, and the Youth Category (under 16 years old). To vote for a winner in each, visit the 2024 online galley and follow the instructions. Voting closes on World Photography Day, August 19th.
The Public Favourites will be announced in early September, alongside the Judges’ Favourites selected by a panel made up of Living Lakes team members and prize sponsors. New this year, we’ve partnered with Nikon Canada Ambassador and Kase Filters Global Ambassador Viktoria Haack to offer the grand prize of an online photography workshop for winners. Winners will also receive generous prize packs courtesy of our partners: Lush Cosmetics, Kicking Horse Coffee, Laykhaus and Float-Eh.
Thank you to this year’s photo challenge funders RBC Tech for Nature, Chick-fil-A and R. Howard-Webster Foundation, McLean Smits Family Foundation, Guelph Community Foundation, F.K. Morrow Foundation, and Bowman Employment Services for making the 2024 Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge possible.
Photo credits:
- Barb Callander, 2024 Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge.
- Brett Michaud, 2024 Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge.
- Katie Hunter, 2024 Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge.
