CAPA Canada: My Country Competition

 
Submit by:  
30 March 2026  

Definition 

This year CAPA wishes to celebrate the rich diversity of the people and places across our nation.

Themes

There are five regional themes corresponding to the Atlantic Zone (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island), the Pacific Zone (British Columbia and the Yukon), the Prairie Zone (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territory), the Ontario Zone (includes Nunavut Territory) and the Quebec Zone. You may enter your image in any theme, either as a resident or as a visitor, provided your photo is from that zone.  Images will only be accepted if they were captured within the geographical boundaries of Canada.   

VCC members submitting images to VCC should be sure to indicate which Zone each photo illustrates. 

 
Open Editing

By submitting your images to a CAPA competition you are asserting that your images meet their requirements.  In simple terms, your photos must be "photographic" in origin, captured by you, and must be free of "generative" AI content.  Every CAPA competition web page contains a link to the "ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA" page, as well as their current "STANCE ON AI-GENERATED IMAGES", both of which are accessible by the public.  Every VCC member entering external competitions should read both pages.  

All different in-camera, on-camera and post-processing techniques can be used except those using AI generative technology. All elements contained in the submitted images including replacement skies, textures and added elements must have been taken by the submitting photographer. Elements contained in an image can be removed.  No digital frames or mats are permitted.

All submitted photographs should contain complete, unaltered original metadata.  The CAPA Competition Director will request un-retouched JPEG or RAW files for verification of compliance.  Failure to provide all original files will result in withdrawal of a winning image.

Colour, black and white, colour images converted to black and white, and infrared images are permitted.

Triptychs (an image containing 3 separated images in a single image) are permitted.

              
Submissions

VCC members may submit up to two photos by March 30, 2026 for consideration for the VC Club entry of 6 images by different members. Individual CAPA members may submit up to 3 images to CAPA for the Individual portion of this competition, which closes April 30, 2026. 


    
Specifications
  1. Images should be in JPEG format, maximum 1400 pixels on the horizontal x 1050 on the vertical in size

  2. Note: One of the dimensions must be exactly the maximum allowed size (either 1400 or 1050 pixels)

  3. sRGB colour space and have a maximum file size of 1.8 MB

  4. Maximum number of submissions per VCC member is two

  5. Please preserve your image’s RAW formatted files, should CAPA request them.

See 2026 Canada: My Country Competition for More Information.

 
     

2024/25

The delayed results of the Canada My Country competition have been released.  Out of 45 clubs, VCC came 38th.   The entries were Kim Passmore's "Winter Skeleton" at 22.5 points, Graeme Weir's "Canada Jay" at 21.0 points, Doug Bright's "Victoria Harbour Showing Its Moods" at 21.0 points, Bill Cubitt's "Banff Springs Hotel" at 20.0 points, Christie Grinton (Martin)'s "Barred Owlet in the Maple Leaves" at 19.5 points, and Mike Burn's "Lest She Forget" at 19.5 points. See gallery at right.

2023/24

Victoria Camera Club tied for 9th place (out of 49) with the Shuswap Club. The only other BC club to place was Cowichan Valley.  VCC received an Honour Award at 138.5 points.  Congratulations to Alec Lee, Kathryn Delany, Nick Delany, Michelle O'Shea, Christy Grinton (Martin) and Bill Cubitt.  On the Individual side of the Competition, David Clow won the Bronze Medal, and BOTH the Delanys (Nick & Kathryn) won Honour awards. (See  the gallery).

2022/23

Victoria Camera Club tied for 11th place (out of 42 club entries) with 140.0 points. The only B.C. clubs to place were North Shore and Osoyoos who tied at 6th place. Richmond Hill won Gold at 154.5 points, North Shore and Osoyoos scored 142.0 each, so we were not far behind. Four VCC Club members, Daniel Rondeau, Kathryn Delany, Nicholas Delany and Tom Stewart, entered individually, and Daniel Rondeau won an Honour Award with 74 points (out of 90), and also won 2nd Merit, Pacific Theme, for his “The Beached Stump” photo. Daniel’s winning photos are available to the public on the CAPA website: go to capacanada.ca, Competitions, Winners, and choose “Canada: My Country”, “Individual Results. (See the gallery).

2019/20

The Victoria Camera Club placed 17th out of 35 clubs. (See the gallery).

2018/19

The images that were originally selected from 2017/18 were submitted for this year with the addition of 2 new images to take the place of two that were withdrawn. We placed 16th this year out of 38 clubs (See the gallery).

2017/18

Unfortunately in 2018, due to a mix-up regarding the closing date of the competition, we were late with our submission to CAPA, and did not enter.

 
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