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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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 21st, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

We are assuming that you aren’t returning to Paper Airplanes on a regular basis to receive … of all things … relationship advise. Or maybe, just maybe, you are? Perhaps you look to our blog as your own personal Dear Abby column (or in my case, a Dear Andy column … ha!). While we do [...]
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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 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 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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