Annual photo competition focused on the city’s connection to nature

The Y/Our Denver photography competition is an annual shot of self-esteem for the people who live and work in the city.

The contest is surely a casual affair, a side project of two local cultural groups — the Denver Architecture Foundation and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center — with a common interest of encouraging people to take, and view, images of the region’s buildings and landscape.

The photographers can be amateurs or professionals. They can shoot anything they want. Most viewers of the work see it via an online slideshow rather than an in-person gallery visit.

But the photos that get produced each year offer testimony to just how attractive a city Denver can be when you look at it in new and creative ways, or capture a scene at just the right moment. Denver never wins th