The Mother Lode of Digital Photo Techniques

"Over the recent months we've been presenting various showcases of photography - while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday's morning. However, what we should have done in the inspirational posts is not just provide you with some inspiration for your work, but also present useful photographic techniques which can help you to achieve optimal pictures for your designs. And as requested by many of you, now it's time to correct our mistake."

Over at SmashingMagazine.com (where I go every month to pick out a desktop wallpaper calendar) they've posted a fantastic set of links showcasing digital photography techniques.  The links include examples of some pretty incredible photography, including high-speed, infra-red, tilt-shift, motion blur, smoke art, HDR and several others.  The examples are amazing, but for each category a handful of how-to links are also provided.  Great stuff!