Old topic, but thought photography people might find this iste pretty neat.
I think that photography is very important, both for documentation and just for expanding ones own interest/pleasure. Corbis Images, a Bill Gates privately owned company, is doing its best to get all the rights it can for all digital images it can lay its hands on. When I was there, they staffed the image processing room 24/7 and were buying up digital stock companies and had aquired the Bettman collection. They are up to over a million images online, and licence images to advertising companies, publishers, TV, news etc.
http://www.corbis.com
I have always sorta been interested in photography-more so when you see images like this one:
http://www.chaparraltree.com/mn/950a7498-lg.shtml
These pics are better than anything I saw, (of insects and the like) than at Corbis...proves that bigger isn't necessarily better.
Chaparraltree is one of the more interesting sites I have stumbled upon. His site has bunches of cool pics like these, I think he is a biologist and a writer as well. Anyway, stunning very cool pictures taken with a multi-mega pixel camera...I don't remember the brand but he lists his camera specs.
I just need to save up money to get a descent digital camera, I haven't even began to shop for one. Can anyone recommend a good digital photography beginners site?