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Useful Web Links

Below are a collection of useful websites that I recommend for further reading:

Photographers
www.colinvarndell.co.uk	Colin Varndell Photography - Stunning Wildlife and Landscape Photographs from Dorset and the New Forest
www.ifphotos.co.uk	IFPhotos - Wildlife and Landscape Photographs from Dorset and the New Forest
www.markbauerphotography.com	Mark Bauer Photography - Stunning Landscape Photographs from Dorset and the New Forest
www.paulhaynesphotography.co.uk	Landscapes & Creatures From The Dorset Coast, The New Forest And Beyond.
www.tonyhowell.co.uk	Stunning images from the West Country by Tony Howell.
www.brianjung.co.uk	Wedding, Portrait, Landscape and Wildlife Photography by Portland based Brian Jung.
www.antonyspencer.com	Wonderful images of Dorset by Antony Spencer
www.dt6.biz	Fine art photographs of the Dorset Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and surrounding countryside.
www.westbaygallery.com	The West Bay Gallery
www.newforestimages.com	Photographs of the New Forest by photographer Kevan Brewer.
www.krausphoto.com	Wonderful Images of the New Forest, Cornwall and Lake District by Richard Kraus
lordv.smugmug.com	Inspiring macro photography by Brian Valentine (LordV)
www.liquidsculpture.com	Images of fluids in motion, frozen in time by a flash of light.

Photography Related Websites
www.dpreview.com	Reviews of digital photographic equipment
www.fredmiranda.com	Reviews of photographic equipment.
www.eos-magazine.com	An excellent magazine dedicated to Canon EOS users
www.eos-forums.com	EOS Magazine Forums
www.wildlifewatchingsupplies.co.uk	Clothing and accessories for wildlife photographers.

Conservation Websites

Wildlife Related Sites
www.newforestdragonflies.com	New Forest Dragonflies & Damselflies - a site dedicated to tracking, identifying and photographing these beautiful insects.
www.purple-emperor.co.uk	Alan Thornbury's Excellent Hampshire Butterflies Site.
dorsetbirds.blogspot.com	Dorset Bird Club - Including the latest bird sightings for Dorset.
www.goingbirding.co.uk/hants	Going Birding (Hampshire) - An excellent site with the latest bird sightings for Hampshire.

Photography Related Software
www.gimp.org	The GNU Image Manipulation Program - A Powerful Open Source Image Editing Program.
ufraw.sourceforge.net	UFRAW - A plugin allowing GIMP to open RAW files.
www.irfanview.com	Irfan View - A very fast, small image viewer compatible with just about every image format.
www.robogeo.com/home	An excellent piece of software for Geocoding digital images.
www.jalbum.net	Software for creating stunning web albums with minimum fuss.
www.photoephemeris.com	A sun and moon calculator showing sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset times and directions for any location.
www.canon-europe.com/support/software/dpp	Canon Digital Photo Professional - RAW image processing and digital workflow tool supplied free with all Canon DSLR cameras.
picasa.google.com	Picasa 3 - Photo editing software from Google that allows some cataloguing and keywording of images as well as uploading web albums.
gallery.menalto.com	Gallery - Highly customisable web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website.

Digital Mapping Software
maps.google.co.uk	Google Maps UK - Digital mapping and satellite imagery.
www.streetmap.co.uk	Streetmap - Online mapping that includes Ordnance Survey 1:50k and 1:25k mapping.
www.mapyx.com	Quo digital Mapping - Digital mapping software for your PC providing UK coverage 1:50,000 mapping at the most reasonable cost I could find.
www.openstreetmap.org	OpenStreetmap - A free editable map of the whole world. Map tiles can also be downloaded and converted to maps for your Garmin GPS device for free.
www.opencyclemap.org	OpenCycleMap - Online mapping based on OpenStreetMap but containing cycle route information including Sustrans routes and the National Byway.

Dorset & New Forest Information Links
www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Field-Guides-Introduction.htm	Geology of the Wessex Coast - Encyclopaedic website about the Geology of the Hampshire and Dorset Coast by Ian M West.
www.dorsetforyou.com	Information about services across Dorset for residents, businesses and visitors. .
www.jurassiccoast.com	The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
www.newforestexplorersguide.co.uk	New Forest Explorers Guide - An comprehensive guide to the New Forest, including walks, cycle rides and information about wildlife.
www.newforestnpa.gov.uk	New Forest National Park Website.
www.forestry.gov.uk/newforest	Forestry Commission - New Forest Website.

HTML/Website Related Links
www.w3schools.com	Excellent Website with tutorials for all aspects of web programming (HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, etc.).
validator.w3.org	The W3C Markup Validation Service - For ensuring your web programming conforms to the current standards.
kuler.adobe.com	Adobe Kuler - A useful web-application for generating and choosing colour themes.
www.aptana.com	Aptana Studio - A very good free web programming suite.
kompozer.net	Kompozer - Another good, free web editor.
www.w3.org/Amaya	Amaya - A free web editor project managed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
filezilla-project.org	Filezilla - A FTP client.
www.coffeecup.com/free-ftp	Coffee Cup Free FTP - Another easy to use free FTP client.
notepad-plus-plus.org	Notepad++ - A source code editor and windows Notepad replacement supporting multiple programming languages.
www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html	Notepad 2 - Another source code editor and Windows notepad replacement that supports syntax highlighting.

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