Posted on February 8th, 2013 by Bob McGowan

For those folks fortunate enough to have been enlightened and impacted by Eileen Rafferty over the years, as many RMSP Career Training, Workshops and Photo Weekends alumni can attest, you’ll know just what an inspiring figure she has become in the field of artistic expression and photography education. Her background and life’s work speaks of [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis
We’re most of the way through week two of our 2012 Professional Studies courses, and are loving how much our students’ eyes are being opened. Even after completing 11 intense weeks building the foundation for their photographic futures, the learning and growing continues! Here’s a great example. Current student Richard Grant, who so far this [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Finished. Fini. Finito. Terminado. In any language it’s stated, this is the final week of Summer Intensive 2012 and first of the three sessions comprising our Career Training program. Always a bittersweet time, the last week is definitely anything but a “cruise week” for the folks as they, again, are put through their paces. Early [...]
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Posted on August 10th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Here we are in Week 10 of SI 2012, and the students’ experience couldn’t be any busier. The end of their week last Saturday involved a fun field trip to the beautiful National Bison Range near Arlee, Montana. Instructor Doug Johnson brought the troops with him to practice their newly developed skills in landscape photography. [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2012 by Bob McGowan

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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Posted on July 27th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Right about now, all of our Summer Intensive students are thinking, “Week 8 … How can it be week 8 already?!?!” True to form, this is the about the time of the program when it dawns on everyone that there isn’t that much time left to their SI experience, but there is TONS of work [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

SI keeps rolling along and it’s already nearly the end of Week 7! At this stage, our students are progressing nicely with both their technical skill, comprehensive understanding and artistic pursuits. Last Friday the students presented their major slideshow projects in front of their peers and staff, which is truly an inspirational and emotional experience [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Week 6 is quickly coming to a close and the students have officially reached the midpoint of Summer Intensive. This is the point where they are critiqued one-on-one for the first time on their first major photographic project of the summer: their individual slideshows. This weeks culminates in a full-scale presentation of their unique vision in [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

This week in Summer Intensive was all about the students rapidly learning advanced concepts in photography and digital technology. Over the previous weekend, the students were able to check out specific Canon cameras and lenses from our extensive “library” of gear. Canon is a tremendous Educational Partner of ours, and their support adds enhanced value [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

If you are even a little bit familiar with Rocky Mountain School of Photography, you probably know by now that we kicked off our 24th session of Summer Intensive (SI) on June 4. The first week of SI is always a flurry of activity with students getting situated in town and our staff running around [...]
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