betterphoto.com
These courses will get you out taking photos. Teachers have impressive resumes and will critique your work.
http://www.kelbytraining.com/
These lesson videos are full of tips and info. Kelby has written excellent guides to the Photoshop softwares (Elements 9, Lightroom, Photoshop CS5).
Here is a free online school which also has a forum:
http://www.digital-photography-schoo...ography-school
I have found this forum helpful:
http://www.thephotoforum.com/
As an avid backpacker, I frequent a website: backpackinglight.com, and was actually encourage to buy my Olympus e620 from a review I read at that site. In the forum there is a section entitled "photography", and as an example here is a book that a forum member at that site suggested:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/978193395...elated-content
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