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I’m still alive

I know I haven’t been posting for a while, but I’m still here.  I haven’t been eaten by a bear or anything.  After the first two weeks, I decide I needed to make a change to my Internet and phone plan.  I no longer have an Internet connection at home besides the one on my…

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When does summer start?

It snowed today in Missoula.  Snowed!  Can you believe it?  We’re not even at that high of an elevation.   It’s crazy.  Thankfully, it’s suppose to be in the 70′s by the weekend.  Highs in the 40′s today and tomorrow though, with rain.  Yuck. Yesterday, was a long day of classes, but I learned a lot. …

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Week 1 Recap

Well, week one of the Summer Intensive course at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography is officially finished.  Honestly, it felt much longer than a week.  I don’t know if it’s because we have classes six days a week or the length of each class period (typically 4 hours) or a combination of both, but…

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Long Day

Today was a pretty long day in classes, 9am-9pm.  So far, the past two days of classes have been more or less an introduction into equipment: what’s available, staff recommendations, pros, cons, etc.  We also spent some time today setting up student computers.  Mine, of course, was already set up and ready to go. :) …

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Orientation

Today was the opening orientation at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography.  For the Summer Intensive (SI) portion of the program, there are 101 students, 61 female and 40 male.  The age range goes from 18 years to 69 years old.  I wouldn’t say there’s really any age group that really dominates.  There seems to…

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My First Post from Missoula
Montana Mountains

I arrived in Missoula, safe and sound, on Thursday night after two very long days of driving.  I left Chippewa Falls at around 11:30am CDT on Wednesday morning and arrived in Rapid City, SD at 9:30pm MDT for a total of 11 1/2 hours (with the time zone change) behind the wheel.  After spending the…

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