HUNTING

1st Place

PHOTOGRAPHER: Kylie Bolton

WHERE: Vauxhall area, Alberta

WHEN: April 2022

DETAILS: At the end of a successful day of shed hunting, Kylie Bolton took this photo of her boyfriend, Matt Simard, as he walked into the sunset. “It was my first time looking for mule deer sheds, as I am originally from Manitoba and the mule deer population is very low where I grew up,” Simard says. “When I moved out to Alberta for school, mule deer shed hunting was on my bucket list.”

PRIZE: Zeiss 10×42 Conquest HD Binoculars

3rd Place

PHOTOGRAPHER: Alexandra Tremblay

WHERE: Carson-Pegasus

Provincial Park, Alberta

WHEN: June 2022

DETAILS: Alexandra Tremblay took this photo of her husband, Justin, showing their daughter Hayden, then six, how to fillet a fish at their lakeside campsite. “Our daughters loved that they could fish at any given time, so you can imagine it was pretty exciting to have caught some lunch,” says Alexandra. “When it was time to clean the fish, Hayden had all the questions! Teach them young.”

PRIZE: 11-quart 1900 Wine Cooler

2 Nd Place

PHOTOGRAPHER: Adam Hearn

WHERE: Angus area, Ontario

WHEN: November 2022

DETAILS: Lucas Kennedy was with his wife, Taylor, on her first-ever duck hunt when his friend and outfitter Adam Hearn took this shot of the happy couple. “My wife just got her hunting and firearms licences, and I was determined to get her on some birds,” Kennedy says. “Needless to say, we left with a couple of smiles, our limit of mallards, and a memory that will last forever.”

PRIZE: Zeiss 3-12×144 Conquest V4 Scope

3rd Place

PHOTOGRAPHER: Kevin McNeil

WHERE: Aylmer Lake, N.W.T.

WHEN: August 2022

DETAILS: Outfitter Kevin McNeil took this iconic photograph of hunter Enrique Señkowski of Mexico paying respect to the barren-ground muskox he’d just shot in the N.W.T.’s vast Unit U. “Last year was the first year the N.W.T. government allowed nonresident hunting in the unit, and the first time ever for muskox hunting there,” says McNeil, who runs the area’s Aylmer Lake Lodge.

PRIZE: Zeiss Terra 10x25 Compact Binoculars OC