Here are a few books that I have found helpful, informative and inspiring ...... plus a couple more still on my wishlist!
Letraset Handbook 93 - Not easy to find this sort of catalogue these days but before digital fonts it was almost an essential. The concept of buying sheets of stick-down text has had its day. But typefaces are more important than ever - so this is still a great reference source. Buy - eBay? More info .... as a result of feedback here is the index to the fonts it contains ....
Type - A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles - Volume 1 1628-1900. Buy- Amazon Type: v1
Volume 2 is due out during February 2010. Buy - Amazon Type: v.2
The HDRI Handbook by Christian Bloch My first purchase on the topic of high dynamic range images - and recommended reading for anyone with a similar interest. Buy - HDRI Handbook +DVD
Places
Living in Yorkshire, even if just at the southern edge, makes for a strong bias towards the county when looking of places to capture. And to encourage some others I started a flickr group - HDR Yorkshire. Over time it may grow to provide some new ideas for good locations - to visitors or locals alike.
In addition to the shared images group I also started a Yorkshire Heritage web site - and even though I never seem to get time to develop it - it does have some of the more obvious places of interest listed.
Finally Yorkshire has plenty of events - from sporting to historic to pop - that provide plentiful opportunities for photographers in any genre.
