A unique, growing photography show at Arden
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- Published on Friday, May 13, 2016
Lyndsey Hofer won the Youth People’s Choice award as well as placing second in the Youth Crocus Habitat category.
Above: Photo by Bailey Mitchler won first in the Youth Single Flower category. Below: Photo by Hope Usick won second in Youth Single Flower.
Above: Bailey Mitchler also won first in the Youth Crocus Cluster category. Below: Hope Usick took another second in Youth Crocus Cluster.
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The Neepawa Banner
Eight Manitoba towns and cities are home to the ten photographers who won prizes in the 2016 Wild Prairie Crocus photo contest at Arden this past weekend.
The group includes students in Grades 5, 6 and 8 in Arden, Minnedosa, Carberry and Austin. It also includes amateur adult photographers in Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Hamiota, Minnedosa and Stony Mountain.
Approximately 185 photos were entered by 55 individuals for about $600 in prize money and a chance to be part of a unique, growing photography show at Arden.
The tiny village, 160 km northwest of Winnipeg, is home to about 150 people and is the self-proclaimed Crocus Capital of Manitoba. It has hosted the photo contest for eight years. It encourages entries from youth and adults anywhere in the province.
To be eligible, the photos can only be taken during about two weeks in April. The crocus normally emerges around April 1 and blooms at mid-April. It is the first prairie wildflower to bloom each spring.
All of the photo entries are printed and posted for public viewing and voting one day only, at Arden’s annual Crocus Festival, on the first Saturday in May.
From the total set of entries, a People’s Choice Award (sponsored by The Manitoba Cooperator) goes to the ‘favourite’ adult and youth photo.
This year’s People’s Choice Award winners were: adult, Dr. Andrew West, assistant professor of respiratory therapy at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg and a Grade 5 student, Lyndsey Hofer of Riverbend Hutterite Colony, Carberry.
Prizes are also awarded in four classes for youth and adults through community donations to the sponsoring organization, Lansdowne Heritage Resources & Tourism Committee, Arden.
All winning photos will be posted for a year on the municipal website, www.ardenmb.ca .
