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    Photo Contest

    Nov 07, 2019 4 minutes

    Oh, Snap!

    Grand Prize

    lisha Neubauer hit the shutter button at just the right moment to get this shot at her trailer park on Pigeon Lake, Ont. Although she planted her son, Mason, and his friend on the dock, she hadn’t asked them to kick around in the water. The droplets she captured using a slow shutter speed take the photo to the next level. Plus, the warm, glowing sunset not only acts as a backlight to help balance this shot, but it also brought us into the moment, making us imagine we were sitting there too. “Everyone was super-pumped about Canada Day,” says Alisha. “We all spent the day running around with the

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