Help pick a winner with our Snapshot Kent lockdown photographic challenge

Published: 14:15, 02 June 2020

Updated: 14:33, 02 June 2020

During the coronavirus outbreak, we have all had to find new ways to connect, have fun and keep active - and we asked you to help us record it, with our photo competition, Snapshot Kent.

And you responded by sending us your pictures of what you were doing at home, from baking to painting and dance routines to clapping for carers.

We wanted Snapshot Kent to be a record of local life during the pandemic, creating an online gallery and in our newspapers too; a chance for us all - and future generations - to see how the people of Kent got through such extraordinary times.

Now that lockdown is beginning to be eased, it's time to pick a winner - and they get a £50 prize.

Many pictures had stories with them of your experiences, and some turned into stories of their own. Some were of beautiful landscapes, others were families getting along - or missing other family members. They all brought joy to others, and it was very hard to whittle down the entries to a shortlist of just 15.

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You can find them here in this picture gallery, and they are all numbered.

1. Gillian Sparrow took this picture of her family out on their walk at Cliffe Pools

2. James and Louise GIbson's son William was six weeks old when we launched Snapshot Kent

3. Alison Barnatt set up a wildlife camera in her garden in Maidstone

4. Charlotte Robinson and her family from Medway sent us this picture of a concrete rainbow worm they made

5. Yumi Knox, aged 11, learnt origami and then put this display up outside her house in Tonbridge

6. Adam, seven, baking cakes during lockdown

7. Mandy Brackstone, husband Rob and kids James and Hollie recreated old photos

8. Two-year-old Logan put a painted stone in Walderslade Woods and look what happened

9. Fifi and Eve with Joshua and Rafferty clapping for carers

10. Stretching out after a Joe Wicks workout was Georgia and dog Sox in High Halstow

11. Pamela Smith from Maidstone caught some colourful washing on camera

12. Aarav Korde, six, also sent a video about social distancing

13. Heather Elder's daughter Sofia Friday, seven from Dymchurch, made a chalk hopscotch along the path for passers-by's daily exercise (and dressed as Hermione from Harry Potter)

14. Lillia Halls made cakes for her grandad to leave on his doorstep for his birthday

15. Nick McDonald's Great British Campout for the NHS on his drive

To vote for your favourite, and who could potentially win the prize, just vote for yours here in this poll:

Voting ends on Sunday evening, June 7, at midnight.

For things to do during the current restrictions click here.