Posted on April 3rd, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

You have all heard the expression, “give credit where credit is due” … right? Well today on the blog, we are happy to give some credit to our good friend and RMSP graduate, Doug Ness. Doug came to RMSP in 2009 after deciding to shift gears from a career as a bonds salesman to dive [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2011 by Bob McGowan

Serena Lissy joined us for our Career Training program in 2009 and wow, what a journey she has been on ever since! After graduating, she took some time to explore and find what it was about photography that ignites her passion so intensely before moving forward in her career. After experimenting and trying a few [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Bob McGowan

In 2007 Missoula, Montana native and resident, Michael Crowe, decided to take the proverbial leap of faith in photography and join us for our Summer Intensive Career Training course. No easy task considering that she was several months pregnant at the time. Having been an excellent student, photographer and model, she quickly added first-time parent [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2011 by Andy Kemmis

Every single person out there is on a different, unique, and totally personal photographic road. 2009 Career Training graduate Melanie Little, whose road includes Tennessee, tattoos and The Big Apple, is no exception. Hailing from Franklin, TN, Melanie earned a BFA in photography and a minor in art history from LSU. After graduating she attended an [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2011 by Andy Kemmis

Continuing with our theme of highlighting some of the graduates that returned to RMSP to assist in our 2011 Career Training program, today we shine the spotlight on Brenda Lindstrom. Brenda began her relationship with RMSP at a Photo Weekend in Portland, Oregon in 2008. That’s all it took to get her hooked! The next [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2011 by Bob McGowan

Having begun pursuing her passion in photography at an early age, in 2006 Amber Alder attended the Career Training program and has since hit the ground running in her home town of Pocatello, Idaho. From her bio: “Her local background includes stints at Stuart’s Photo/ Graphic, providing greater experience in a studio setting, staging portraits [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2010 by Bob McGowan

As much as I dislike the whole connotation of the term “New Year’s Resolution”- the implication being that life has gotten wildly off track for us in the year just ending - this time of year does lend itself to a certain amount of both reflection upon the past and looking forward to the future. Recently, much of the [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2010 by Steve Russell

Being Candid I don’t do so well taking posed portraits whether it’s in a studio or not. Directing people, choosing backdrops, controlling lighting – not my strengths. But shooting candid shots, well, THAT gets my blood flowing. What could be better than capturing a spontaneous, unselfconscious look that tells a great story in and of [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2010 by Mel Mann

Part 2: Homestead National Monument was created by an act of Congress in 1936 “…as an appropriate monument to retain for posterity a proper memorial emblematical of the hardships and the pioneer life through which the early settlers passed in the settlement, cultivation and civilization of the Great West.” Although part of the National Park [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2010 by Andy Kemmis

If you are even a little bit familiar with Rocky Mountain School of Photography, you probably already know that our educational opportunities are packaged into three programs: Career Training, Workshops and Weekends. Today, these three programs have lives of their own and continue to offer excellent opportunities for photographers around the world. What you might [...]
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