Posted on June 22nd, 2012 by Bob McGowan

And the journey continues. This week in Summer Intensive is a particularly fun one for the students. First off, their experience involved a second week of digging into the nitty gritty of the Adobe Lightroom software in the Edit classes & labs working on their newly created images. Also, they learned about enhancement of their [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

We’ll probably say this every week from now until the end of Summer Intensive, but we’ll say it today anyway: “We can’t believe that week 2 of SI is already over!” And if it seems like a lot has happened in the last two weeks from our perspective, we can only imagine how all of [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Well, it’s been quite a week around the school. We kicked off our annual Career Training program with the 24th annual Summer Intensive course by meeting, greeting and initiating this year’s fantastic group of students (74 of them to be exact), all whom have put their so-called “real lives” on hold for the next ten [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

So it’s May. In the world of RMSP, this is the month we live in anticipation of the arrival of a new batch of eager Summer Intensive students in June. These students arrive in Missoula, Montana from all over North America and the globe, with some having never set foot in our part of the [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Since graduating from RMSP’s Summer Intensive in 2004, Tonya Ballou Peterson has been working steadily as a wedding photographer in Utah and New Mexico. When she graduated, her intention was to pursue commercial and food photography, but after a disastrous experience with her own wedding photographer in 2005, she realized that helping brides preserve their [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis
If you have spent any amount of time on our blog, our website or following us on any one of our social media outlets, you are undoubtedly familiar with our Career Training (CT) program. The five month program – made up of Summer Intensive, Professional Studies and Advanced Intensive – is like no other offering [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Many of our students have found their way to RMSP by a certain amount of dissatisfaction with their corporate careers prior to coming to school here. How this happens is an individual situation, but usually it involves a lack of fulfillment with their daily experiences on the job. Something seems to be missing in their [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Bob McGowan

In 2007 Missoula, Montana native and resident, Michael Crowe, decided to take the proverbial leap of faith in photography and join us for our Summer Intensive Career Training course. No easy task considering that she was several months pregnant at the time. Having been an excellent student, photographer and model, she quickly added first-time parent [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2011 by Andy Kemmis

The thing I love about these Alumni Friday posts is that I get to reconnect with past students and get a glimpse into each graduates life and photographic journey since leaving RMSP. The process reiterates the fact that no two journeys in photography are the same and should remind us all that with constant work, [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Last Friday was the graduation of our 2011 Summer Intensive class. I can personally attest to the amazing amount of growth as both a photographer and person that happens during the eleven weeks. There is something about the people, the intensity of the program and process of learning to better understand photography that also helps [...]
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