Plus Honourable Mentions Featured on HORSEJournals.com

Canada's longest-running showcase of equine photography, the 34th Annual Celebration of Horses Photo Contest, brought an outpouring of creativity and passion from photographers across the country. Entries reached new heights in both number and artistry, presenting our judges with the delightful challenge of selecting winners from an exceptional field. We were thrilled to see so many returning photographers alongside an inspiring number of first-time entrants who shared their love of horses through the lens.

Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who submitted their work — your images capture the spirit, beauty, and connection that define Canada’s horse community. We are especially grateful to ThinLine Canada for once again providing generous grand prizes in all six main categories:

• Stable Stork - Beautiful Babies of 2025
• Love of Horses - Depicting the Human-Horse Bond
• Horses on the Job - Performance, Working, Heritage
• Horses Being Horses - Humour, Personality, Action
• Winter Scenes - Sleigh Rides, Winter Wonderland, Dashing Through the Snow!
• At Liberty - Horses in Action (playing, galloping, with no tack)

Our sincere thanks also go to the Canadian Quarter Horse Association for sponsoring the Quarter Horse Division. Horse Community Journals Inc., publishers of this magazine, sponsored the runners-up in all categories.

We invite you to enjoy this year’s breathtaking collection of Winners and Runners-Up — a true celebration of the horse in all its forms.

See Winners, Runners-Up, and Honourable Mentions HERE.

There were no Youth Category winners due to a limited number of entries in this category.

Thank you to everyone who shared their special images and horsey stories with us.

We wish to send a BIG THANK YOU to our Sponsors...