Photography tips, tricks, and information

• dpreview.com - Best place for detailed information on cameras. Check this place out before making your next camera purchase. (Just avoid the forums)
• Luminous Landscape - Great site for essays and tutorials about photography. Directed towards professionals and serious amateurs, this site has many essays and tutorials that are much more indepth and technical than your average photography site.
• The Digital Picture - This site has great, in depth reviews of lenses for Canon cameras.
• Bob Atkins Photography - Great site for information on Cameras, reviews, and other photography information.

North Carolina Photographers

• Kevin Adams Photography - Quite possibly of the "King of North Carolina Nature Photography"
• North Carolina Waterfalls - Leading photographer of waterfalls found in North Carolina.
• Forrest Photography & Graphics - Some excellent photography work, much is pre-digital.
• Four Forty-Six Photography - Wonderful photography with a regularly updated photography journal

Places to visit

• North Carolina Zoo
• Hanging Rock State Park
• Stone Mountain State Park
• Pilot Mountain State Park