In terms of our alumni, it is always rewarding to see our graduates hit the ground running building their businesses and getting work almost immediately after leaving RMSP. Karen Dressel is one such an example. A 2011 graduate of our Career Training program, her drive and determination is beginning to make her a force to [...]
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 [...]
With over 25 years of photographic experience, long-time RMSP workshop leader, Brenda Tharp, is one of our most accomplished nature and fine art photographers & instructors. She’s back with us again in 2011 leading our Callaway Gardens: Georgia’s Springtime Palette workshop. I spent a few moments with Brenda in order to give our readers some insight to her [...]
With many folks traveling home for the holidays, how can they resist bringing their cameras with them to capture the familiar environment of loved ones and places so full of memories? Every year, RMSP reviews the results of the past year’s schedule of our popular Weekends events that take place in various cities across the U.S. We then decide where to [...]
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 [...]
During my time at RMSP I realized that simply seeing something different was only part of the artistic journey, that bringing meaning to the vision is an integral part of connecting the viewer to the story of the image. It was with that challenge in mind I decided to apply for one of the artist-in-residence [...]
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 [...]
With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, many Americans will soon be spending vast amounts of time chopping, stirring, stewing, kneading, baking, frying, smelling, tasting, socializing (and eventually cleaning) in one of their favorite spaces in the home: the kitchen. We thought this would be a perfect time to challenge our readers to break out their cameras and photograph [...]
Life can be full of exciting journeys when we seek them out, or vice versa. My latest journey began when I purchased an underwater housing and strobes for my digital SLR late last year. After completing Summer Intensive and Advanced Intensive training at Rocky Mountain School of Photography during the fall of 2009, I returned [...]
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