Posted on February 23rd, 2012 by Bob McGowan

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 [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

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 [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2011 by Bob McGowan

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 [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2011 by Steve Russell

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 [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

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 [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

“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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