Posted on August 10th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

What sets Sedona apart from the rest of the southwest? For one thing you’ve never seen red rock the same brilliant color anywhere else. Instructor Tim Cooper, leads a workshop in Sedona every fall and has spent a good deal of time photographing around the four corners region. With the amount of time he’s spent [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

If our instructors were superheroes, Elizabeth Stone and Tony Rizzuto would be the Dynamic Duo. Oh if only they wore capes to class. I digress. The rave reviews are still coming in about their workshop in Italy that was inspiring, fun, educational and resulted in beautiful images. Take a look at what people are saying. [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Michael DeYoung is a new workshop instructor for RMSP in 2012. He will be teaching an incredibly unique workshop in Alaska. I was able to catch Michael via Skype before he made his annual journey from New Mexico to Alaska for the summer. It was so much fun to talk to him and hear about [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

We typically announce our upcoming courses in October by way of our catalog and website. Occasionally, some of our programs are so exciting that we can’t help but spill the beans a little early. This is one of those years. We have three workshops in particular that we are very excited about: Storybook Holland: Focus on [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

National Geographic Traveler recently named the San Juan Islands one of the best summer destinations for 2011. Well, Nati Geo, we are way ahead of you on this one … or at least our instructor Eileen Rafferty is. Eileen will be leading a photography workshop in the San Juans at the end of August. This [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Sunrises, rising tides, seabirds, beachscapes, kites, lighthouses; you name it, the photographers in this workshop found it. It looks like it was another fantastic week of photography with Tim Cooper and Eileen Rafferty.
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Posted on June 14th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

I had the bittersweet job of editing the student slide show from the Bella Italia 2011 workshop to post on the blog. Bittersweet because on one hand I loved seeing the student work and being inspired by their images. On the other hand, it was pretty hard to see image after image of gorgeous countryside, [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Our Basic Photography workshop located in the Texas Hill Country concluded April 15th. Instructor Lynn Hoffman-Brouse and assistant Nate Schmidt did a tremendous job, and the images that the students submitted for their final slideshow bear witness to this. It always amazes me how much the participants improve after a week-long Basic Photography Workshop. Often times, [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

Many photographers dream about their images appearing on the pages of National Geographic. Each issue is full of photographs that inspire readers. How could you not want to produce images with that power? William Albert Allard has been one of the influential photographers whose work has wowed people since 1964. For five decades he has [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2011 by Page Orb Pedde

There’s nothing quite like a summer road trip, especially in Montana. An incredible sense of freedom comes when you drive the back roads, pass through small towns, over mountain passes, through wildlife refuges and ghost towns. Keith Graham is instructing, or should I say, leading the road trip convoy for the Road Trip Montana workshop. We [...]
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