One of the biggest gripes with photography, especially landscapes, even more specifically ones that contain a sunset, is the early wakeup alarm calls. Today was no exception. We met out at Maclay Flats around 5.45am, a few minutes prior to the sun coming up, hopefully...

Our penultimate day, and the start of a wind down after the previous hectic four days. A little over an hour from Missoula is the small town of Philipsburg, the location of todays three hour field shoot, and a cool historic town which offered us loads of...

A different layout of the day involving the first of two field shoots, this time at Ibey Nursery, providing us with two hours of pure macro photography. Not having a dedicated macro lens meant that I had to make do with a borrowed achromatic filter, a...

So after almost oversleeping and missing out on one of Missoula's cheap and tasty coffees I made it into class. Not quite with it but ready to rock n roll with macro photography, bringing with it a new side of being up close and personal with your...

With a none too shabby 9.30am start, the lecture of the day was on composition, equally if not more important than exposure. An images exposure could be spot on but if the content is not pleasing to the viewers eye then it could be far from a masterpiece!...

The day had finally arrived where I actually got to sit in a classroom and listen to a 'Pro' photographer talk the talk. The course is Intermediate Photography, run by Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, and instructed by Tony Rizzuto. What...