Celebrate the First Signs of Spring Through Your Lens

Join our Spring Photo Contest!

Celebrate the end of winter and beginning of a new season with us by sharing your photos of the first signs of Spring. We’re looking forward to warmer, sunshine filled days and the beautiful, vibrant colours of spring blooms – are you too? If your answer is yes, we hope you’ll participate in this fun photo contest. 

Let this contest be the reason to get you out into nature to explore and find the first signs of Spring around you. Please don’t feel like you need a fancy camera to enter. Most of us always carry our phones with us, which have great cameras nowadays.

Read on to get more details on how it all works and what you can win.

How It Works:

• Send in your best picture that represents SPRING for you until Thursday, April 21st to [email protected]
• Everyone can vote throughout the last week of April – from April 23rd-30th.
• You will find the voting link right here and on our social media platforms once the voting opens.
• Voting will take place through an accessible platform off of social media so everyone can join in on the fun.
• The top 5 pictures will be announced in the first week of May

Photo Contest Voting

Voting is open from April 23rd-30th 2022.

Choose your favourite spring photo and cast your vote. The top five entries will be announced Sunday, May 1st.

Voting is now closed! Scroll to the bottom to find out who the winners are.

What You Can Win:

The top 5 voted pictures will receive a gift card to the Greenery in Kelowna so you can add more colour and spring vibes to your home.

1st place: $150 gift card
2nd & 3rd place: $100 gift card
4th & 5th place: $50 gift card

Entry Rules:

• Your picture must be taken in the Okanagan (please let us know where you took the picture when you send it in)
• Contestants must be over the age of 18 and live in the Okanagan
• A parent/guardian is eligible to enter a photo on behalf of their child/children
• Only one picture entry per person
• You must own and have full rights to the photo you submit (please don’t submit someone else’s work)
• *For full contest rules please click HERE* 

PLEASE NOTE: By entering this contest you give us permission to share your photo on our social media channels and website – we will always give credit to the owner. 

Our 5 Contest Winners

A total of 367 people voted during the last week of April. Here are our five Spring Photo Contest Winners out of the 23 photo entries that were submitted.⁠

1. Place: Meghann (60 votes)⁠
   Photo of a bee in a blossoming fruit tree taken in Okanagan Falls. Can you spot the yellow heart shape on the back of the bee?⁠
2. Place: Lora (54 votes)⁠
   Photo of her dog Cooper in the Wilden hills.⁠
3. Place: Merlyn (52 votes)⁠
   Photo of a wasp on a yellow flower taken at Knox Mountain⁠
4. and 5. place with 30 votes each are shared by
   • Johanne with her picture of crocuses in bloom taken in her backyard in Kelowna.
   • Judy  with her picture of her Schnauzer Zoey sitting outside in Wilden’s backcountry surrounded by yellow flowers.

You can click on the images below to enlarge them.