Missoula’s Rocky Mountain School of Photography celebrates 25th anniversary

Neil and Jeanne Chaput opened the school in 1989, and in its first year, eight students enrolled. Since then, the classes and programs have grown, and the summer intensive program alone graduates 80 to 100 students annually and brings students from all over the world to Missoula.

Through its career program at home, the school has helped people launch new professions. Around the country, its weekend trainings and weeklong workshops have inspired "avid amateur" photographers as well as life changes.

Every year, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography http://www.rmsp.com/ makes an impression on the community, visible and otherwise. The flock of photographers toting cameras to the farmers markets are conspicuous, but the impact the school has on the local economy is less apparent.

By Keila Szpaller

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Lens on Montana: RMSP Glacier workshop trains photographers to look outside, inside

Mike Carraher is lying in an alpine meadow above Logan Pass, his camera and tripod set firm and low.

His belly is on the ground. His eyes are on the trembling flowers along a rivulet below Mount Clements, and his finger is on the trigger.

He waits.

The mountain peaks cut into the wide sky above him, but Carraher is almost as close to the earth as the tiny purple petals awash in the stream. Soon, the wind pauses just long enough to still the daisies and monkeyflowers from their quivering.

Click.

He takes the shot, and with it, Carraher gives himself a new look at the landscape of Glacier National Park.

By Keila Szpaller

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