Photo contest winners: results of the Comox Valley Land Trust\u2019s fifth annual contest<\/p>\n
Published 1:30 am Saturday, June 20, 2026<\/p>\n
The results of the Comox Valley Land Trust\u2019s photo contest are in! Now in its 5th year, the contest had nearly 100 people submitting their best images. The number and quality of the photographs meant that the judges had a difficult time picking just three.<\/p>\n
Megan Firth won first prize for her \u201cwindow to the wild\u201d photograph of two hummingbird chicks in their nest. The judges loved its mood, lighting, and technical excellence, and appreciated the difficulty of taking that shot.<\/p>\n
Hadrien Jouet, a local photographer, won second prize for \u201cwet raccoon,\u201c which is not only sharp and well composed but also has a comedic element that the judges found compelling. This was Hadrien\u2019s third year placing in the contest.<\/p>\n
The third-place image \u201cspawn wave \u201cwas taken by Taylor Burk, a Vancouver Island photographer. The judges were wowed by its composition and technical acuity. A wave of herring spawn in a churning sea brings a raw energy to this image.<\/p>\n
The judging panel was comprised of three talented local photographers: Jenn Dykstra, Scott Bell, and Tim Ennis. Prizes were provided by London Drugs, Mount Washington Alpine Resort and Comox Valley Kayaks and Canoes.<\/p>\n
This contest was founded to celebrate nature as a defining feature of the Comox Valley \u2013 something worth preserving. As a charity that works to conserve and restore nature, the Comox Valley Land Trust has played a significant role in protecting more than 670 hectares of ecologically significant land since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo contest winners: results of the Comox Valley Land Trust\u2019s fifth annual contest Published 1:30 am Saturday, June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-750395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}