The Teton Photography Group Steering Committee is constantly looking for new ways to serve our members. We try to prioritize our efforts according to feedback from annual member surveys and suggestions made directly by our members. One of the highest priorities has been in the area of regional photography educational programs. To help make our members aware of these programs, we have reached out to other photography clubs in Wyoming, Idaho, southwest Montana, and northern Utah. We were made aware of a similar effort several years ago and contacted those leaders who spear-headed this work.
It turns out that the early work to bring western photography clubs together was headed by a now-defunct photo club and the website listing the member clubs was out of date and incomplete. We contacted the organizers and were given permission to use the previous name and logo to revive the efforts and bring western regional photo clubs together in a shared data base. The Teton Photography Group has become the home of the Rocky Mountain Photo Council. We have contacted all 17 photography organizations in the region and have confirmed that 12 are active and have chosen to participate in the Council. Our webmaster, Mike Cavaroc, has created a page hosted on our site with links to all 12 organizations. In the next couple of months we hope to have a “Quick View” of each club and their activities as well as complete contact information available on the RMPC pages.
We sincerely hope that having information about all of the regional clubs and their members having information about the TPG will stimulate cross-fertilization of ideas and bring interested photographers to other club meetings when they are in the area. We also hope that by getting information about the TPG out in the region, our members will have greater exposure and opportunities to share their work.
All tolled, we hope that the Rocky Mountain Photo Council will be a valuable service to all photographers living in and traveling through our part of the country. You will see the link to the RMPC on our home page soon but until then the link is: www.TetonPhotographyGroup.org/RMPC.