Ansel Adams
A concrete and terse overview of photography proccesses from the workings of your camera, to the composition of photos, to the developing of negatives and printing of photos.
Funniest thread I’ve seen on metafilter in awhile, excompassing all this ‘unstoppable fighting technique’ bs.
Christopher Alexander
A great book detailing some widely applicable ways to design building, and why. Taken from studies conducted by Alexander and his architectural students and colleagues from The Center for Environmental Studies at the University of California, Berkely.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
A collection of essays by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a French photographer who died just last year and pioneered the field of photography.
A really helpful site on photography – I took a class last semester at school and the teacher was a complete wacko, all I learned to do was develop film, which incidentally will do me a lot of good… But it was fun, and I want to do more shooting on my own.