For December First Friday Art Walk in Missoula, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography Gallery will be exhibiting a new show featuring works by Career Training graduates Sarah Joann Van Nortwick and Wyatt McCollum. The show is a collection of self portraits presented in diptych format. I was able to correspond with Sarah and Wyatt [...]
If you are a human on this planet, chances are you’re a nature lover at some level. Whether it takes the form of an enormous natural waterfall, the grandeur of snow-capped mountain scenery, a vast churning ocean, critters, birds singing in the trees, flowers blooming in your garden, or the big ol’ pile of freshly [...]
Unless you’ve been living in a cave lately in the U.S., you may have noticed a certain national election is upon us. With this year being one of substantial political divide, the outcome is still anyone’s guess. All sides of the political aisle have been frantically and expensively doing their best to influence voters and [...]
It’s not every day that one of RMSP’s valued Educational Partners is presented with overwhelming confirmation from their own customers – en masse – about the unparalleled quality of their business. And especially when it’s published in a national magazine! So when something like this happens, you can bet that we’re gonna help spread the [...]
In September, two of RMSP’s outstanding and intrepid instructors, David Marx and Doug Johnson, led two separate workshops experiences back-to-back in southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming. Some of the participants in these joined us for both, and all had a spectacular time in this beautiful part of the country. See the results of their photographic [...]
See Shooting Dragonflies: Show Up, Watch Stuff Happen, Shoot it When it Does (Part 1) here. Shooting Roosters Some roosters startle easily so shooting with a longer lens helps. I use a 70-200mm lens with a 1.4 extender and can fill a frame with a dragonfly from about 4-5 feet away or stand further back [...]
When it comes to scenic beauty, there really is no comparison to the San Juan Islands in the northwest corner of Washington state. This summer, instructor Eileen Rafferty and her trusty assistant, Roxanne Duffy, traveled with an inspired and inspirational group of photographers to guide them through this lush landscape of greenery, wildlife, ocean and [...]
Dragonflies are remarkable subjects to shoot. They come in brilliant arrays and combinations of colors from cherry red to sky blue to emerald and olive greens. Each huge compound eye has up to 30,000 lenses and they see better than any other insect. Their four independently controlled wings flap at 30-80 times per second, which [...]
It’s been almost two years since I last wrote about shooting bugs in the act of procreation, and you know what? They’re STILL doing it! Right out in the open in public parks and backyards. This time around, though, I have more macro experience behind me and I’m better equipped to shoot them when I [...]
The clock keeps ticking and the Summer Intensive students are rounding the far turn and quickly heading toward home stretch. Coming off the second and last long break of the course, Week 9 involved more of the quality creative education and experience they’ve been immersed in since the beginning. The week began in Photo Studies [...]
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