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 June 1st, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Pam Voth graduated from RMSP’s Summer Intensive in 2004 and hasn’t had a real job since. Sure, she’s been working hard, but not at a job, rather, at what she loves – capturing still and moving images with her camera. A Missoula resident and world-traveler, she came to RMSP after leaving a 20 year career [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

Well, it’s just about that time again!! The time of year when we kick off our Summer Intensive course. This year marks the 23rd consecutive year we have run this course, and we are as excited as ever about welcoming a new crop of eager, dedicated photographers to Missoula to give them the best photographic [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

By their very nature, many of our students are the adventurous type. This is certainly true of Pennsylvania native and 2009 Career Training alum, Jared Alden. In fact, it’s challenging to know where in the world – literally – he will end up next. How about in Koh Yao Noi, Phuket, Thailand? How about traversing [...]
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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 March 27th, 2012 by marieo

People come to RMSP with a lot of things in common. They have dreamed for years of being photographers. They remember the exact day and occasion that they received their first camera. They were thrilled when they caught that special moment on film. They have been told by their family and friends that they have a great [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

If you are like most photographers, you might have a shot list or list of projects you would like to accomplish that is a mile long, or a “bucket list” of courses you would like to take someday. Whether existing solely in the back of your mind, or (as in my case) on 1000 scrunched [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2012 by Forest Chaput de Saintonge

Back in the film days, people would shoot through a roll of film, bring it to the lab and get their slides developed. Then, if they wanted a print, they would bring the slide back to the lab to have a print made. This process was repeated over and over again, until digital came along. [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2012 by marieo

Take the plunge! Live your Dream! Follow your Bliss, Namaste. Maybe we don’t hear these phrases as often these days as we did a couple of years ago. Our collective thoughts and attention seem to be centered around, pulling back, getting by, doing what is necessary to make things work. You know, survival. How can we risk stepping [...]
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