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Winterscapes is a winter-themed photo contest launched in 2014. The program encourages Edmontonian’s to embrace the winter season outdoors and enhance the beauty of their neighbourhoods by crafting captivating winter landscapes.

A winterscape can include snow and ice sculptures, winter gardens and landscaping, ice ornaments and winter-themed scenes. Commonly crafted using natural elements like snow, ice, visible plants, stones, or rocks, these creations may also incorporate lights, colours and wildlife-friendly features.

Residents can nominate their own or someone else’s winterscape to be considered for an award through photo submission online.

Nominations open December 16, 2023.

Learn How to Make a Winterscape

The Winterscapes team will be out in neighbourhood parks this season providing demonstrations on how you can make your own winterscape. Join us on select Saturdays to practice different techniques to create your own at home!

Snowpals and Colours: Noon-5pm

Learn how to use snow and simple colours to create winter art scene and help build as many snowpals as we can.

December 16 - Alfred Savage Centre
December 30 - Emily Murphy Park

Snowblocks and Lights: 3-8pm

Learn how to use snowblocks to make forts and small sculptures, incorporate lights to elevate your winterscape.

January 13 - Castledowns Outdoor Rink
January 27 - Victoria Park Skating Oval

Dragons and Sculptures: 2-6pm

Learn skills and techniques on how to create elaborate and colourful sculptures of all sizes and join our creation of a snow dragon.

February 3 - Rundle Park Iceway
February 10 - Sir Wilfred Laurier Park, Site #7

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Winterscapes Categories

Have a look at some winter decor ideas, then submit a photo in 1 of 3 categories:

Winter Art

These artistic winterscapes feature creative and eye-catching winter scenes including snow or ice sculptures. Embellish your creations with plants, colourful decorations or wildlife-friendly features.

Winter Lights

These bright and twinkling winterscape yards feature hanging winter lights, light up decor, and illuminating snow creations. An enchanting way to brighten up any neighborhood.

Winter Play

These fun and play-friendly winterscapes feature whimsical elements such as snow slides, forts, snowpeople or ice creations and are suitable for group activities!

Contest Prize Draws

Prizes for the contest are awarded based on a random draw from all eligible nominations. The chances of winning are based on the number of nominations received.

All residents who submit an eligible photo nomination will be entered into a weekly draw to win 1 of the following fun winter-themed prizes.

2023 Winning Entries

Congratulations to the 2023 finalists and winners! Check out the winning entries and start planning your entry.

View the 2023 Winterscape Winners

Winterscapes Contest Terms and Conditions

Read the rules, terms and legal conditions before submitting any photos.

Rules, Terms and Eligibility

The Winterscapes Photo Contest is open to all Edmonton residents over 18 years of age. No purchase is needed to submit a nomination to enter the contest.

A winterscape must be visible to the public, which can include the front yard of your residence, the piece of land in front of your school, community hall, park or other group meeting location. Prior to building on property that is not owned by any member of the team, it is the sole responsibility of team members to request and receive consent from property owners and/or superintendents of the building or property. Your design should include at least one the following: colour, lights, snow, ice, or yard, garden and horticultural features.

Only 1 winterscape submitted in a given week per individual or group will be eligible for the weekly prize draw
If a new unique winterscape is submitted the following week, it will qualify for the new prize
Submitting multiple photos of the same winterscape creation will qualify for only one prize overall

Photo Format and Content Criteria

Any images submitted must be original and belong to the person submitting the photo, and the photographer has the right to authorize use and publication of the photograph(s). The photographer must declare that the photograph(s) have not been previously published or used by the City of Edmonton.

For privacy and security reasons, please do not include images of people or of pets/domestic animals in your photos. Refer to our FOIP policy. All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter, lighting, and the scene as it appeared.

Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast) will be disqualified. The online nomination form must be completed fully in order for the nomination to be accepted. The limits for self-nominations and third-party nominations, as outlined above, are applicable.

What Happens After Submission?

All photos will be subject to an internal judging panel to determine a list of finalists. Finalist photos will be uploaded to edmonton.ca/winterscapes where interested Edmontonians can vote for their favourite photo in each category.

After the voting period, the photos with the most votes will be determined as the winners and receive an award.

There will be a total of 14 awards given. Photos of the winners will be posted in the Winterscapes gallery.

Limitation of Liability

The City of Edmonton is not responsible for printing or typographical errors in any contest-related materials, or for stolen, lost, late, misdirected, damaged, incomplete, or illegible entries. The City of Edmonton is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the photo contest, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to the photo contest.

If, for any reason, the photo contest is not capable of completion as planned, including but not limited to, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the City of Edmonton that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the photo contest, the City of Edmonton reserves the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the photo contest.

Partners

Thanks to our generous supporters who make this program possible.

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Winterscapes

Learn How to Make a Winterscape

Snowpals and Colours: Noon-5pm

Snowblocks and Lights: 3-8pm

Dragons and Sculptures: 2-6pm

Winterscapes Categories

Winter Art

Winter Lights

Winter Play

Contest Prize Draws

2023 Winning Entries

Winterscapes Contest Terms and Conditions

Rules, Terms and Eligibility

Photo Format and Content Criteria

What Happens After Submission?

Limitation of Liability

Partners

Edmonton Horticultural Society

Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Winter City Edmonton

YEG Parks

For More Information

311 Contact Centre

Winterscapes

Snowpals and Colours: Noon-5pm

Snowblocks and Lights: 3-8pm

Dragons and Sculptures: 2-6pm

Winterscapes Categories

Winter Art

Winter Lights

Winter Play

Contest Prize Draws

2023 Winning Entries

Rules, Terms and Eligibility

Photo Format and Content Criteria

What Happens After Submission?

Limitation of Liability

Edmonton Horticultural Society

Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Winter City Edmonton

YEG Parks

Related Links

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For More Information

311 Contact Centre