Monika Deviat is a force of nature who happens to love playing outside in nature, especially in the dark. In addition to being passionate about photography and teaching, she has made mentorship and inclusion a cornerstone of her personal business. Find out more about Monika by visiting her website, giving her a follow on her socials, and reading more below! Website | Instagram | Facebook What is the best (or worst) advice you have ever gotten (or given)? A lot of people deal with imposter syndrome, and I am one of those people. During a mentoring session regarding the business of fitness, a helpful piece of advice was given to me. It was about teaching, and I've been able to apply it in so many places. I was told that there are a lot of people that don't have the knowledge you have, and the way you explain something or share that knowledge can be unique and what actually helps someone with a concept. What was the last piece of equipment you bought or class you attended? Niko...

JANUARY 2022 50/50 MATCH BRIEF Wonder-full Whimsy-call “Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”  ~Dr. Suess   The Shooting Range is thrilled (and a bit giddy) to officially kick off 2023 with a call to make the journey into a world full of whimsy and wonder with Guest Judge Joel Robison ! Rare Earth and TSR can state It’s time for us to instigate Your urge and need to demonstrate  Ways to photo manipulate Which may mean to accentuate  The image that you generate  With things that will illuminate  Or levitate or animate, Disintegrate or illustrate  Or perhaps look like they might inflate.  The winner needs to fabricate  An image that will simulate  (But not exactly replicate)  The whimsy of your magistrate  Such that some smiles will he make.  The one who will decide your fate  Has tools to get you out the gate. That ought to help facilitate...

Congratulations to our first ever 50/50 Challenge winner, Stacy Scandrett! In addition to winning 50% of the entry fees, Stacy's image will be featured on the November 2024 page of our First Annual Fundraising Calendar slated to be available for sale in November of 2023. This Season Two TSR alumna hails from from Niagara, homelands of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Attiwonderonk (Neutral), Wenrohronon, Mississauga, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and sent in this drone image that caught our Guest Judge's eye. Here's what she had to say about The Nature Pill Challenge: Snow White I promised myself last year that I would make a serious attempt to bring my boudoir sessions outside, so it was ironic that we would get the Nature Pill challenge after all the effort I've made to get out and about in 2022! Throughout this whole year I've taken my clients to waterfalls, vineyards, forests, and to all the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie beaches that Niagara ...

It is an absolute delight to welcome the one and only Viktoria Haack as The Shooting Range: A Photography Challenge 's Guest Judge for December 50/50. The Match Brief will be released on December 1st at 9:00am MST and shooters will have until December 21, 2022 to submit, so make sure you make a note to self about that. In mid-December we will be sharing a post explaining what exactly the Foundation has been getting up to (or trying to get up to) since being established in May 2022 but right now let's spend a little time getting to know the gentle and beautiful soul that is Viktoria Haack. ~~~ Viktoria is an English native who now calls Secwepemcúl’ecw (Secwépemc, known as Salmon Arm, BC) home. Somewhere between living on an isolated island for ten years, getting an Honours Degree in World Art Studies and Museology, and moving to Canada, her love of fine art, anthropology, and photography led her to becoming a respected and renowned visual storyteller.  If you're not familia...

Rare Earth Outreach is VERY excited to welcome Shane Turgeon, the Guest Judge for The Shooting Range: A Photography Challenge's November 2022 50/50 Event. You can click the following links to  view/download the Match Brief , find FAQs about how the Challenge works , and enter your image for a shot at half the cash collected from entry fees, feedback from Shane, and publication in the Foundation's first ever Fundraising Calendar being released in November 2023, but right now we want to focus on Shane, whose headshot here features him with beloved fur companion Kwinn. ~~~ Shane Turgeon is (among many other things and in no particular order) a published author, a tattoo enthusiast, an event creator, an accredited appraiser of collector's items, an accomplished photographer, a jiujitsu instructor, sXe  and vegetarian, and a passionate advocate for using photography to improve mental health. We hope you enjoy viewing some of his favourite images and getting to know him better ...

Hello, Reader! We are very excited to introduce the Rare Earth Photographic Arts Outreach Foundation Blog. The Blog will feature useful resources, inspiring and thought-provoking stories and articles, announcements of competition winners, and the most up-to-date information about upcoming events, activities, and opportunities to stay connected.  Fear not - you don't have to remember to check back every other day - just subscribe to the Blog here and on or about the first of each month, you will receive a summary of the previous month's content and along with an overview of upcoming events (sort of like this post!) directly in your inbox. As explained in Rare Earth's 5-Year Plan  released in May of 2022, our Year One focus is taking the time needed to explore, research, develop, and refine the programs and initiatives we have planned to deliver in Year Two and beyond. While this meant making the difficult decision to postpone Season Three of The Shooting Range: A Photograph...