Photo Site Recommendations

There are mentions of other photo sites from time to time on other threads. I am a member of Pentaxforums, but I have done little with it save for posting a few gallery photos as I have found navigation a bit awkward difficult and I have preferred this place. I think I might give it another go now so as to not lose contact with some absent friends. I also joined ephotozine but I found that very sprawling, so I just enter the monthly competitions (and was lucky enough to win one). I have a few pictures on Photo Answers. Aside from that I was wondering which other sites people find useful and interesting, fora and more general sites.

I quite like Cambridge in colour

I follow this photoblog, not least because one has a Pentax, but it is interesting to see what they come up with every week.

I also subscribe to Photoshop Elements User. Some of it is for subscribers only but some is available to non subscribers too. It usually has interesting stuff, though it is very American.

Of course I follow Ned Bunnell's photoblog.

And Luminous Landscape is a great resource too.

I lurk at Pentaxforums - never seen a need to join it, and I used to belong to a Dutch forum but it became increasingly Olympus dominated so I left.

Photonet, Fotocommunity and Photosig.

How about some links - just to make life a bit easier?

http://talkphotography.co.uk/forums/index.php

I visit this site occasionally, some really terrific images get posted - seems to be quite a few photographers based in Scotland on there

http://inspiring-photography.com/forum/index.php

I also visit the talk photography forum but it's often hard work trawling through all the threads as it's quite a busy forum

Simon

I think I should remind you that posting of links to sites competitve to PU is not allowed, unless to an item that is relevant to a particular discussion.

Good thing that the sites linked to above are competitive to this one, as they are not Pentax specific. When discussion goes 'off topic' regarding other marques etc, we are quickly reminded that if we want to discuss such things, other sites are available. So we ought to be able to discuss which of these sites we like to visit....

I like following (part-time Pentax user) Shutterfinger's blog, I just like his take on photography - and the perils of 'gear worship'

http://shutterfinger.typepad.com/shutterfinger/2011/09/i-just-contracted-dgad-sy...

I made no comment about that, I was merely reminding everyone that competitive sites cannot be linked to.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no site competitive to this one, John!

Life is pretty easy with Google.

What an admirable sentiment!

I use two general photography forums. These are the grandly named 'World Photography Forum' and 'PictureSocial'.

I also occasionally use some specialist forums:
MFlenses (Manual focus) - which I find good for infra red & UV photography
photomacrography (microscope & macro photography)
along with the specialist groups in Flickr (DIY, infra red, astrophotography, pin hole...)

I find all of them rather slower moving than PU when it comes to discussions.

Our sister sites have forums:

www.ephotozine.com

www.photodo.com

The former is a general site with specific sub-sections and the latter is all about lenses.