Our editors select the year’s strongest action and landscape photos from Ontario and Quebec.
Mid-winter Great Lakes ice formations. Photo: kyle wicksChic-Chocs, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. Photo: CHOK Images. Check out ML’s Chic Choc’s story here: A team from Green Feet Dogsledding, Bruce Peninsula. Photo: SCOTT PARENTGreg Sturch, undisclosed Ontario stash. Photo: colin fieldHasina Hussain Zada, Blue Mountain. Photo: Allison Kennedy Davies. Twenty-seven-year-old Zada, a Blue Mountain Resort employee, is quiet but once you get her talking, she’s willing to share her story. Hasina has only been in Canada for a few years, and her arrival was hastened by the advance of the Taliban in her home country of Afghanistan. Before she left, she and her friends had discovered a love of snowboarding, a sport new to her country. If anyone understands how valuable the freedom to ride is, it’s Hasina. Check out her story here:
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Andrew Lansdale drops a knee, Ontario backcountry stash. Photo: kristin schnelten. Check ML’s story about Ontario backcountry here:Alain Denis au parc du Mont Loup-Garou, à Sainte-Adèle, dans les Laurentides, Quebec. Photo: Jennifer SmithChristopher Karn, Station Touristique Stoneham, Quebec. Photo: étienne DionneLittoral de Rimouski en début d’hiver, avec vue sur les montagnes du Bic, Quebec. Photo: Jean-Christophe LemayComet Neowise. Dorcas Bay, Saugeen Bruce Peninsula., Ontario. Photo: Esme Batten. As a biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Batten says, “I had always thought of nature as its individual pieces, but I see it differently now. Now when I see a landscape, pictures emerge in my brain and I think, Wow, what if the Milky Way were behind it, or what if it were morning and surrounded by a mist?…. “It’s a meditative thing for me. Night photography is a time when you really get to be peaceful and calm. No one is messaging you or expecting anything from you. You can sit there with your own thoughts; you can look out at nature and be awed by it.”Morgan Barrie, Sauble Beach, Ontario.. Photo: zak erbMatt Wilcox’s world goes sideways. Photo: TRENT PIPhER
