Every year, Calgary Journal photographers are tasked with creating images that look captivating or impactful. This fall’s gallery explores the impact of COVID-19 on Calgary and its residents and showcases the best of our first-year photgraphers’ creativity and technical skills.
A dog tries on a mask to show that the virus is dangerous to everyone. PHOTO: ANJOLIE THERRIEN. 
Masks cover a barrier in a parking lot behind Visions Electronics. PHOTO: ASHLEY PFEIFER. 
A Calgary Transit Service bus displays a “face covering” advisory warning. PHOTO: ENEA ZARKA. 
A sign welcoming visitors and students to Mount Royal University sits infront of an empty parking lot. Activity at the MRU campus has been extremely low due to COVID-19 regulations. PHOTO: ETHAN CHAMBERS. 
Multiple signs on the entrance of the Bisset School of Business at MRU. PHOTO: JULIE PATTON. 
2020’s new normal. Fuzzy dice are out and protective masks are in! PHOTO: MATTHEW DEMILLE. 
Discraded disposable mask in gutter located on 4th street in Calgary, Alta. PHOTO: MEDINA KALAC. 
Sanitizing stations – a new normal in the pandemic. PHOTO: MIA MENDOZA. 
A woman and child enjoy a ride on a Bird scooter along the Peace Bridge downtown. PHOTO: RYAN MCMILLAN 
Here comes Captain Covid! A man wearing a Captain America costume and a mask walks the streets of downtown Calgary. PHOTO: RYAN MCMILLAN. 
A mask covers the beak of the chicken statue out front of Chicken on the Way on Kensington Rd NW. PHOTO: SHAWANDA BACKFAT.
