Welcome to Through the lens, a new photographic feature of The Revelstoke Current that showcases photos captured by professional and amateur photographers in Revelstoke.
Send us your image and we’ll post it online at The Current. In return, we’ll link your image to your website which will increase traffic there and, possibly, image sales, too. The Current has about 5,000 readers every week so you stand to reach a large audience.
If this is something you’d like to participate in please send me an e-mail at drooney1@telus.net. The images must be original and while they can be on any subject they should, in some way, focus on Revelstoke, its people, their activities and the trees, animals and landscape that surorund us. Please include enough information for a decent caption by telling us where, how, when and why you took the image. Don’t forget to tell us who is in it and please provide technical details such as the type of camera and lens you used to capture it.
If you have a website or Facebook page that features your work please be sure to include its URL.
April 12
Revelstoke-born Tami Pelttari now lives in Ontario but still yearns for home. “Anything to do with Revelstoke excites me still,” she told The Current. “I was taking winter pictures for my sister-in-law who lives in Ontario and had never seen snow or mountains like ours. (Paradise) It was a snowy afternoon when I headed out and decided to go down by the equestrian grounds to take pics of the horses for her… and as I came out I fell in love with this image of the llecillewaet Bridge and snapped it“ This image was captured using a Sony Cybershot 10.1 MP. Tami Pelttari photo
April 11
This photo was taken at the corner of Vernon and 4th St E, 5 years ago. This Barred Owl appeared quite content to digest its meal and snooze away the afternoon. It stayed in the trees for at least 45 minutes. Revelstoke is so close to the wilderness that we get to see its inhabitants once in a while… Photo taken with a CanonSD 800 IS. Shutter: 1/100, ApertureF /1.8. Sylvain Hebert photo
April 10
This photo was taken a few years ago at RMR from the subpeak area above the Stoke chair terminal. It shows the massive cornices that overhang the “Door Chutes,” just out of bounds. Although beautiful, these massive cornices have enormous potential to harm people and careless skiers/snowboarders do get caught every year. The Revelstoke landscape takes on another dimension where people play and work at higher elevations. These cornices represent a part of that enticing yet dangerous world. This photo taken with a CanonSD 800 IS. Shutter:1/500, Aperture: F/9.0. Sylvain Hebert photo
April 9
Like a perfect mirror, not a single ripple disturbs the incredibly still Columbia River as it reflects he mountains and the heavens. Here’s what photographer Dennis Goodman had to say about this image: “I was just sitting here having my morning coffee reading The Current and I came across the “through the lens” article what a cool Idea… I took this picture in July of last year from my back yard. You can see the reflection of the moon in the water. Took it with my Pentax K-10.., at 5:30 in the am.” Darrell Goodman photo
April 8
This ice formation below a rock outcropping along Highway 23 near Blanket Creek almost looks organic. This image was captured last autumn last autumn using an Olympus E-MP1. Geordie Knoess photo
April 7
Bill Nikolai took this recent self portrait while soaring above Revelstoke Mountain Resort. That’s Mount Cartier and the Columbia Valley on the right. Bill captured this image with a GoPro camera. Paragliding from the top of Mount Mackenzie is a favourite all-season pastime for many adventurous Revelstokians. Bill created a video with his GoPro, which you can see here: http://www.westcoastsoaringclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7777. Bill Nikolai photo courtesy of Alan Pollster
