Posted on February 9th, 2013 by Bob McGowan

Recently, we’ve had you looking freshly at scenes using all of your senses, but primarily with just one; sight. Seeing is one thing mentally, but the origin of it relates to physical properties of both the environment and the body in order to sense light in our brains. So how is that we do this? [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

What would life be without water? Easy answer is that there simply wouldn’t be any life without water. Water is everywhere. It sloshes, seeps, runs, pools, freezes, floods and falls. It evokes emotions such as calm and peaceful, yet our tears are outward expressions of anger or sadness. We float on it, surf on it, [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

…And that’s a wrap folks!! Our 2012 Photo Weekends season is in the books! Instructors Doug Johnson and Tim Cooper knocked it outta the park with a fun-filled couple of days in Overland Park, Kansas last weekend. We’d like to take this opportunity to extend a gigantic thank you to everyone in Overland Park, and [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

To all of you fine folks who contributed images after the Indianapolis Photo Weekend, sorry to keep you waiting over the weekend for you to see your images here. But on the bright side, this post might make your Monday a little bit brighter. By the way … Tony Rizzuto and Eileen Rafferty had a [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

For the month of March, we asked our readers to show us their best work with the theme in mind of that crazy little digit lying between 2 and 4 on the numeric scale, the Magic Number 3. Our fantastic readers/creatives first loaded the bases and instead of simply hitting a triple, they managed to [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Sneaking this one in just under the 5 o’clock-on-Friday-wire! We received one image from our homework assignment given at the Bismarck Weekend. We are grateful for your submission, Rose Klein!! Even though it makes us want spring to arrive in Missoula like it has (apparently) in Bismarck! Here’s what Rose had to say about her [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Woops! Looks like someone was too excited about St. Patrick’s Day on Friday and completely forgot to post the results from the Boise Photo Weekend. My apologies to our contributors. Looks like there is no pot o’ gold at the and of the rainbow for this blogger.
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Posted on March 12th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Well, as it turns out I neglected to post the photo that came in last week from a participant in our Atlanta Photo Weekend. Maybe it was the sunny weather we had here in Missoula on Friday or maybe it was the … nope … it was definitely the sun that had me thinking about [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Let’s hear it for Birmingham Weekend participant Ron Clemmons for turning in his “homework” from the assignment given at the weekend. Ron, you definitely get an A+ … not just for contributing … but for sharing such a beautiful image with our blog readers. Love the shallow depth of field, the composition and the pop [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Last week, after our Photo Weekend in Sacramento, two people submitted images for the assignment. For being the brave, committed photogs that they are, we rewarded their efforts with two complimentary tickets to the Bahamas (not really … I just wanted to make everyone who didn’t submit feel the sting for a second or two). [...]
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