With a title so serious, you’d think that I’m about to tell you how I can take pictures that are being published in National Geographic… Not so much! I just wanted to share a couple of resources that have been helping me enjoy this hobby more and more. First of all, there are 2 threads at the Something Awful forums that I read daily. In one of them, people just post their pictures, and other people give feedback in them. This is the Photo-A-Day for December. Then, there’s the General Photography Questions Megathread, where people just ask and answer all sorts of questions. These resources are the most "interactive", because I can ask questions myself and get answers, and also because it has such a large participation that there is a lot to learn from many different people.
A few months ago, I responded to an ad on Craigslist about a photography club starting up in Reno. I was invited to join, and just last Saturday was the second meeting of F-Stop Reno, the photo club. We got together at Mike’s place, chat for an hour or two. Then, since it had just snowed, we decided to go out to Boca/Stampede to take pictures. I had a great time hiking around in the snow, learning from people who have been doing this thing for a little bit longer than me.
Lastly, I try to read online guides such as Unshutter.com, and looking at cool pictures to learn what looks nice and what doesn’t, for example Flickr’s interesting pictures. Some day, I’ll be taking nice pictures. 
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