You might remember, from this post here, photographer Andrew Nixon is finishing his experience in our Exhibition Mentorship program. This extensive, 26-week professional development course is geared towards emerging artists working in the realm of photography who are dedicated to innovative work in contemporary visual arts. The culmination of Andrew’s efforts, Going Coastal, opens this [...]
“I’ve been photographing for a while now. Do you think I should skip Basic and register for the Intermediate Photography workshop?” This is a question we have fielded many times over the years, and although it is a question that requires a photographer-specific answer, we thought it would be helpful to put up a post [...]
The folks who participated in our recent workshop Vegas to Zion: Dusk to Dawn with photographers/instructors extraordinaire, Gabriel Biderman and Tim Cooper, must have been feeling Lady Luck on their side. How else could they have captured some of the coolest and most unique images we’ve seen from a workshop lately?! Of course, great skill, [...]
Have the wilds of Yellowstone National Park in the winter been calling you and your camera? Do you crave to capture nature in its full glory in one of the planet’s most unique landscapes and ecosystems? Well, here’s a chance to experience it vicariously through the eyes and lenses of the participants in our recent [...]
When we think of the Midwest of the U.S., Indianapolis is near the top of major cities that show up on our Photo Weekends tour map quite frequently. A big town with big ideas, big hearts and big minds hungry to learn about their passion of photography. Indy is the home of 500 miles of [...]
In February, we return to the land of golden opportunities, speaking both historically and photographically. Our upcoming Photo Weekend in California’s capital city of Sacramento wasn’t scheduled by us without good reason. One of the more populous states in the nation harbors photographic opportunities in abundance all along the length of its north/south orientation. Glorious [...]
Just last month, RMSP held our first ever Landscapes & Lightroom in Big Sky, Montana workshop. Instructors David Marx and Doug Johnson gave the participants “the ol’ one-two” with their expertise in both landscape photography and the powerful digital imaging software program, Adobe Lightroom. David posted the students’ concluding slideshow on his blog, The Lightroom [...]
One exercise that had a lasting effect on me in Elizabeth Stone’s and Doug Johnson’s Intermediate Photography Workshop four years ago was how to work a scene. We learned to shoot from the same spot or shoot a single subject at least eight different ways. In the macro world having the mindset to find eight [...]
We typically announce our upcoming courses in October by way of our catalog and website. Occasionally, some of our programs are so exciting that we can’t help but spill the beans a little early. This is one of those years. We have three workshops in particular that we are very excited about: Storybook Holland: Focus on [...]
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” -Ansel Adams The photographs of Ansel Adams’ have played a major role in making Yosemite arguably one of the most photographed National Parks in the U.S. His iconic black and white images [...]
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