Top 5 #MyCanonWorld picks from May

From insects to wild flowers, we want your best photos of nature in urban spaces – and there’s awesome Canon gear up for grabs.

We’re running a competition over on Instagram where you can win a new Canon DSLR worth R32999, or one of four monthly camera bundle prizes worth more than R8000 each. (Want to know more, as well as read our judge’s cheat sheet? Read through the competition guidelines here.)

Here’s the shortlist of best images we’ve seen for May: think you can do better? The competition is running until 24 July, so get your entries in!

1. Crossing the wires

A post shared by ian bradley (@irbradley) on Apr 28, 2017 at 12:55am PDT

2. The mighty Hartlaub’s gull

A post shared by Dionne Miles (@dionne.miles) on Apr 30, 2017 at 1:19am PDT

3. The sleepy Cape fur seal

A post shared by Devin Trull (@ta_devs04) on May 8, 2017 at 8:20am PDT

4. The cycling squirrel

A post shared by String The Story (@stringthestory) on May 16, 2017 at 5:57am PDT

5. Gecko on bathroom window

A post shared by Tracy Scheepers (@tracy_scheepers) on May 17, 2017 at 1:58pm PDT

All of the above entries (as well as five every month for the next two months) are now the running to win the grand prize of a Canon DLSR camera kit worth R32999!

And the winner of this month’s spot prize (drawn at random from the above selection), is Devin Trull, who has won a Canon EOS M10 and a TS 6040 wireless printer. Well done Devin!