Wiki Loves Monuments looks for awe-inspiring photos

Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photograpy competition to promote historic sites around the world thanks to Wikimedia (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Shoot your favourite Canadian monuments and upload them by September 30, 2017.

Historic monuments dot landscapes in every country. Capture the monuments in different lighting conditions where you live and travel, and then allow worldwide access to them through the Internet. Next, get set for the international contest in September 2017 by uploading as many great pictures as you can of monuments you've visited.

On October 1 the contest jury will evaluate the photographs and award international prizes for the best pictures. The competition is organized by Wikimedia Canada.

This is the fourth year of one of the largest photo contests in the world.

In addition to garnering great exposure, your pictures could be viewed on Wikipedia and help preserve of Canada's cultural and historical heritage.

Over 12,000 historic places are listed by Parks Canada, but only 20% have freely licensed images to illustrate Wikipedia articles, and some sites, such as the Port Refuge archaeological site, are inaccessible--even Parks Canada has no pictures.

Wikipedia will use the freely licensed photos as often as possible. Don't worry about the age of yours photos, if they are great shots, send them in.

Again, uploaded your photo to Wikimedia Commons in September 2017:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017

Launched in 2010 in the Netherlands as "Rijksmonument," meaning "monument of the nation", the contest gave us 12,500 free pictures of Dutch monuments. The success of that competition attracted the attention of several other Wikimedia chapters, and the 2011 edition of Wiki Loves Monuments extended to 18 European countries. Within a month, more than 5,000 participants upload nearly 170,000 photographs, a world record, certified by Guinness Book of Records.