Links
(or: "Where do you want to go?")

Personal Favorite
Photographers and Magazines
Hardware
Software
Other


Personal favorite

My personal favorite is The Dutch Photo Zone. This is a (Dutch) discussion forum where people meet and exchange experiences to improve their work or to find inspiration to do new stuff or just hang out and have a good time. You can find me there as 'wagb'.



Photographers/Magazines

www.lanting.com (Frans Lanting, wildlife photographer)

www.victorbos.com (Victor Bos, nature photographer)

www.natuurfotografie.be (Rollin Verlinde, nature photographer)

www.wfu.edu/users/bennettk (Ken Bennett)

www.soerink.nl (Lars Soerink)

www.naturephotographers.net
A great site with great photographs. Actually it's an online magazine with articles, a forum, lots of links, online portfolios end workshops. Definitely worth a visit!

www.retouchpro.com
"Quite simply, RetouchPRO is a resource for anyone, professional or hobbyist, who is interested in photo restoration, retouching, and manipulation." Lots and lots of information can be found here on how to retouch your photos.

photographytips.com
Lots of technical background on photography.

Student Curriculum in Photography
Good site to improve your photography skills. It contains tutorials on almost all aspects of photography as well as projects to help you improve yourself.

www.nationalgeographic.com
The website of National Geographic has a part dedicated to photography. Visit it if you have some time to spare!



Hardware

www.dpreview.com
Digital Photography review has the latest news on new developments in camera-land. A very good place to go if you want to compare cameras side by side.

www.steves-digicams.com
Steves DigiCams has reviews on every aspect of digital photography. From cameras to printers to manufactures, everything can be found. His camera reviews are usually very good and have a lot of information.

www.kenrockwell.com
Ken is a real biased Nikon adept, nevertheless, his site contains a lot of useful information.

www.nikon.com



Software

Adobe Photoshop www.adobe.com

Photoshop tutorials made available at Teamphotoshop.com

Photoshop tutorials made available at Graphic-design.com <

Focal Blade thepluginsite.com (best image sharpener available)

Color Washer thepluginsite.com (correct color, contrast and exposure)

IrfanView www.irfanview.com



Other

Weerkamer.nl
If you ever go to Holland and want to plan a photo trip, look on this site to see whether any rain is heading your way!

Auteursrecht en thuis kopieren
Dutch site on copyrights and stuff...stating that downloading MP3s is legal, hosting MP3s is not!

Fotografen Federatie
Dutch association of photographers