Posted on April 8th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Wow! There was an amazing response to this assignment. This was about as free form as assignments get. There were very few guidelines, no subject theme, no set dimensions. I didn’t even set a limit on the number of images that could be submitted. The only requirement was that each photo be taken with a [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about Yosemite and asked people to add their photos of the National Park to our Flickr Group. There are some fantastic images. Take a look. A big thanks to the following Flickr users for sharing: Robert Windel kcengtms Gordon Banks
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Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

This is the second gallery of submissions for our February assignment Winter. March’s assignment will be available on Monday. Sorry for the delay on this, but my laptop that crashed this week. All images are in order the order that they were received. Hugh E. Maddox Robert Sainz Gregory Tapler Scott Fuller Mardi Mileham Ginny [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Wow! This was by far the biggest turnout for an assignment we’ve ever had. 29 people sent images for the February assignment-Winter. There were so many images we decided to break it up into two galleries. Thanks to all the photographers who braved the cold (or not so cold in a few cases) to show [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

In honor of Valentines Day, the January assignment was to photograph Love. We wanted to see how you visually communicate the emotion of love. Each photographer was asked to explore relationships between subjects, show us your take on iconic imagery, use colors, play with visual metaphors– anything that communicated love. Each person was asked to [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Rocky Mountain School of Photography Gallery is excited to announce the upcoming exhibit, Last Shift: Saying Farewell to Smurfit-Stone, by RMSP instructor Kathy Eyster of Frenchtown, Montana. The collection of color photographs documents the hard hats hung on the fence outside the Smurfit-Stone mill when employees left their jobs for the last time. Eyster has spent most [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Despite the craziness of the holidays, people found time in their busy lives to go out and photograph for December’s assignment, A Sense of Place in Your Hometown. Thank you to those who participated. It’s always fascinating to a see peoples’ different perspectives on their hometowns Below are the questions that went along with the [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2010 by Bob McGowan

Well, our readers have done it again! Rising to the challenge of capturing the culinary environment, we received a wonderful array of images from those daring photographers willing to step out of their comfort zones and into the cozy confines of their very own kitchens…with camera in hand. The results are as varied and creative as any we’ve [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2010 by Bob McGowan

As a photographer, Neil Chaput de Saintonge has no more favorite subject matter than the art of ballet and the performers who embody it. I sat down with him recently to discuss this love and his experience with shooting the national touring company, The Moscow Ballet, during their performances in our home state of Montana. How did [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2010 by Bob McGowan

Kudos to the courageous photographers who have contributed to this month’s assignment – the portrayal of themselves in a photograph. Self portraits can be the most challenging and rewarding of images to produce, and the results we received depict a great deal of thought, creativity and “reflection”…both literally and figuratively! The following questions were asked as part of the assignment: 1. What was it like being in your [...]
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