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Winning photos highlight farm life "in all kinds of weather"
July 3, 2009
Winnipeg -- The CWB today announced the 17 winners of its annual crop-year calendar photography contest. Dorothy Seibold took the grand-prize winning photo of her 82-year-old husband, Lloyd, trudging through snow to check a grain bin.
The CWB received more than 750 photo submissions from 170 photographers for the 2009-10 calendar under the theme, In All Kinds of Weather.
"The CWB crop-year calendar is a celebration of farming and Prairie life that is displayed in farm homes and businesses across Western Canada," said David Burrows, CWB vice-president of communications and government relations. "Dorothy's photograph masterfully captured the spirit of farmers who continue working, no matter what the weather brings."
Photographers of all ages took part, including 14-year-old Courtney Kesslering, who snapped a winning photo of a magnificent sunrise. The calendar is being distributed to farmers with the current issue of Grain Matters, the CWB's bi-monthly publication, which arrives in 55,000 farmer mailboxes this week.
Seibold, of Stranraer, SK, will receive the grand price of a $500 photo store gift certificate. Sixteen other prizes of $50 certificates were awarded. Two participants – Diana Dolack and Anne Burkard – received prizes for two different photos that they each submitted. All winning photos appear in the 2009-10 CWB crop year calendar. Winners were chosen by members of the CWB design team and the manager of the CWB-WeatherBug initiative.
The other prize winners are:
- Shauna and Ricky Smith of Fisher Branch, MB, for their photo of a farmer jet-skiing in a flooded canola field;
- Lawrence Jensen of Standard, AB, for his photo of irrigation equipment;
- Anne Burkard of Rosalind, AB, for her photo of a chickadee perched on a birdhouse and for her photo of a lightning storm;
- Wendy Williamson of Lafleche, SK, for her photo of a horseback rider overlooking a lake;
- Stan Wiebe of MacGregor, MB, for his photo of a flooded road;
- Linda Boys of Rapid City, MB, for her photo of a rainbow;
- Lisa Klassen of High Bluff, MB, for her photo of two wooden granaries;
- Courtney Kesslering of Viceroy, SK, for her photo of a sunrise over a barn;
- Carrie Olivier Brown of Zealandia, SK, for her photo of moving cattle;
- Sonya Toews of MacGregor, MB, for her photo of a boy playing near a puddle;
- Bonnie Potoroka of Goodeve, SK, for her photo of swathing a grain field;
- Diana Dolack of Biggar, SK, for her photo of apples coated in ice and for her photo of an ice-covered barn;
- Dianna Hanna of Drayton Valley, AB, for her photo of clouds;
- Aaron Spence of Outlook, SK, for her photo of an old truck under a cloudy sky.
Prairie photographers are invited to start shooting entries for the 2010-11 calendar under the theme All in a Day's Work. Entries must be postmarked by April 16, 2010. Controlled by western Canadian farmers, the CWB is the largest wheat and barley marketer in the world. One of Canada's biggest exporters, the Winnipeg-based organization sells grain to over 70 countries and returns all sales revenue, less marketing costs, to farmers.
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For more information, please contact:
Maureen Fitzhenry
CWB media relations manager
(204) 983-3101
Cell: (204) 227-6927
maureen_fitzhenry@cwb.ca
