Seasons of Our Mountains Calendar Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Seasons of Our Mountains Calendar Photo Contest and who runs it?

Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hospice, a hospice care provider headquartered in Evergreen, Colorado, stages the Seasons of Our Mountains Calendar Photo Contest together with the Evergreen Camera Club. The program invites photographers to submit images of local wildlife, nature and scenery, and the photographs that rise to the top of the community vote are printed in the following Seasons of Our Mountains calendar.

The ballot sits on the hospice's contest page at https://mtevans.org/2027-seasons-of-our-mountains-calendar-photo-contest/, where each edition gathers entries and then opens the public vote. Imagery on that page carries photographer credits, including Dick Oltman for the header, Bob Coorsen and Austin Albert. The organizer lists its contact details plainly: the office stands at 3081 Bergen Peak Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439, and patient support is reachable at 303-674-6400.

Quick facts

Within Colorado's wider field of public votes this program occupies a quieter niche. Rather than ranking restaurants or retailers, it celebrates mountain imagery on behalf of a health care organization rooted in the community it serves.

Which editions have run, and when does the community vote fall?

Three consecutive editions stand confirmed for this program, in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The Evergreen Camera Club's guidelines describe it as the Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hospice "Annual Seasons of our Mountains Calendar". An earlier marker survives as well: the hospice's site tells the story behind its 2021 calendar, so the tradition stretches back beyond the confirmed run, with the years in between simply left undocumented.

In the most fully documented cycle, entry opened May 5 and closed at midnight on June 5, and public voting ran from July 4 through the 15th, in 2024. Twenty-five of the submitted photographs advanced to that community vote, and the thirteen highest-ranked images were slated for the calendar. The current contest page asks for submissions of wildlife, nature and scenery by June 6, a slightly different cutoff wording than the earlier midnight-on-June-5 phrasing.

Two things remain unstated. The contest page publishes no roster of photo themes or divisions; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The hospice likewise leaves the per-person voting frequency and any eligibility terms off its published material.

Season timeline

How does a supporter cast a vote during the July round?

Voting starts at the contest page's mtevans.org address once the July window opens. The ballot presents the finalist photographs, and a supporter marks a favorite and sends the choice through the form embedded on that page. No account creation step is described, and nothing on the page asks voters to pay.

Because the hospice leaves voting frequency unstated, anyone planning repeat visits should read the instructions displayed beside the live ballot before assuming a pattern. The window itself is brief, so checking the opening date early matters more than anything else a supporter does.

It helps to separate the two stages. The entry round decides whose work reaches the ballot, while the July tally alone settles the calendar lineup. A supporter's influence begins at the second stage, which is why timing matters: the vote, not the cut that follows entries, is where a fan base can actually act. Once the window closes, attention shifts to the announcement of which photographs made the calendar.

Where does this ballot fit among Colorado's community vote programs?

Colorado's public ballots lean heavily toward best-of business rankings. Denver media contributes Top of the Town and Best of Denver, northern Colorado carries Best of NOCO, the Springs area has Best of the Springs, and resort country holds two polls of its own, listing Best of Summit County beside Best of the Boat.

Against that backdrop the Seasons of Our Mountains ballot looks little like its neighbours. It ranks photographs rather than businesses, it draws its subject pool from a single spring entry round rather than a long category list, and its outcome is a printed calendar bearing the hospice's name instead of a slate of business winners. Its center of gravity is Evergreen, the town where both the hospice and the camera club are based.

Vertical matters here too. Nearly every neighbour in this family wears a best-of label aimed at shoppers choosing among local merchants, while this program is a photo competition carrying a calendar's name. That changes who competes, individual photographers instead of shop owners, and it changes what winning feels like, because the calendar format lets several images share the honor rather than crowning a single category champion.

How can supporters help a favorite photograph climb the ballot?

The first hurdle arrives before any voting: an image must survive the cut that follows the spring entry round. Strong composition of wildlife and scenery shots therefore starts with the photograph itself, not with promotion.

Once the July ballot opens, momentum matters. Sharing the contest link quickly, asking Evergreen-area friends and family to weigh in, and reminding people while the window stays open all lift a finalist's tally. Because Mount Evans publishes no outside-assistance policy for this program, anyone weighing a purchase should raise it with the hospice directly. General background on widening reach sits in our votes guide, and the service overview at award-vote packages covers how paid support works for contests of this shape. No outcome is promised: the community tally alone decides which thirteen images reach print.