Each year since 2019, we've put out the call for your best photos of Colwood so our annual Colwood Calendar is a true reflection of our community.
The 2025 Colwood Calendar is a beauty!
Colwood is home to beautiful beaches, parks and trails, iconic sites, and a unique mix of neighbourhoods, each with their own distinguishing features to enjoy and opportunities to explore. Throughout the year, community members are encouraged to submit photos of places, activities and features that bring you joy in Colwood. In 2025 we received 147 amazing submissions!
For a limited time and while supplies last, the 2025 Colwood Calendars are available at the Colwood City Hall reception desk.
Featured photos are credited to the photographer's name in the calendar and showcased on City social media pages, quarterly newsletters, and other City publications throughout the year.
How photos are selected
We try to select high quality photos that showcase a range of beautiful and thought provoking Colwood settings, seasons, and quintessential Colwood experiences.
- 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. Submitted photos must not be currently held in copyright by any individual or organization and must be previously unpublished work.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, relatives and representatives of the City of Colwood may participate but are not eligible for prizes.
- Selection: The City of Colwood selects the photos to be featured in its sole and absolute discretion with the goal of including high quality photos that show a range of settings, seasons, times of day, and experiences of Colwood.
- Notifying featured photographers: Photographers will be contacted by email, with photos selected to be featured in the calendar published at www.colwood.ca and shared on @CityofColwood facebook, twitter and instagram, and in the annual calendar. Featured photographers may be asked to supplement their submission with an expanded description to give viewers a broader understanding of the setting and experience depicted in the photograph.
- Prizes: The photographer of each image selected for the calendar will receive a gift card to a local Colwood business.
- Prize limit: A photographer is eligible to be featured, at most, twice in the calendar.
- 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.
Colwood reserves the right to adjust contest rules and deadline(s) as the result of causes beyond its immediate control.
Need more information?
Questions and inquiries about contest rules can be emailed to Sandra Russell, Manager of Communications & Engagement at srussell@colwood.ca.