Local Colours 2024

Friday, November 22, 2024 at 7:00pm
Creston Valley Branch
Location:
Kootenay River Secondary School Auditorium
Address:
223 18 Ave S, Creston
Tickets

Join us for an exciting evening with Creston’s Outdoor Photography Show, where the beauty of nature comes to life through the lenses of talented local presenters. Be captivated by breathtaking images of stunning landscapes, wildlife, and outdoor adventures.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with the great outdoors through the art of photography, videography, and storytelling.

The event will be held at Kootenay River Secondary School Auditorium (KRSS) on Friday November 22nd, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. Admission at the door $15, and $5 for youth under 18.  Early bird tickets $10 for adults available until November 15th.

Local Colours features photographers and storytellers Jesse Moreton, Lindsay Donald, Robin Louie and Tammy Bradford.  We hope to see you there!

Plaid Lake area- photo M. Flint

Photographer and Storytellers:

Tammy Bradford spends most of her time at the Creston Museum, where she’s been the manager/curator/executive director/janitor for twenty-five years. When she’s not cataloguing artifacts, creating exhibits, or tracking down some detail in the archives, she’s either driving people nuts with her endless stories of local history or taking long walks with her camera and trying to convince the birds to cooperate for a photo.  She’s an avid-though-easily-distracted birdwatcher, a champion deleter of bad bird photography, a figure skater and skating coach, and the world’s greatest crazy aunt.

Lindsay Donald is an international award-winning wildlife photographer. Originally from Scotland, he has a degree in zoology and animal behavior from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. Lindsay started taking photographs to illustrate animal behavior for a research project in the late 1970’s. He has travelled the world in search of amazing wildlife images. In North America he travels from Florida to Alaska and makes frequent visits to Africa including Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe & Zambia. His talk this year will feature images of several species found in the Creston Valley and may also include some polar bear images taken in the Hudson Bay in early November.

Robin Louie is from the community of Yaqan Nuʔkiy and enjoys using the land between the two arches just as his family before him since time immemorial. He shares the culture of the land in hopes for people to understand how to care for the land so that our future generations can enjoy it too.

Jesse Moreton loves getting lost in the mountains and capturing his adventures in picture form. This year’s focus will document a dive into the heart of the Purcells to summit the symbol and center of Kootenay wilderness, Jumbo Mountain. And yes, there you will find grizzlies, not gondolas. Long live Jumbo Wild! This highlight trip will be accessorized by other mountain vistas and colourful landscapes from the region we are lucky to call home.