Agreed about flickr, it really is great, especially the community aspect.
If you're in a big enough town, or area and can get into some local groups on flickr, like a strobist group or w/e, it can be VERY helpful. For example, I used to be really active in PDX Strobist before i got a job a coupla years ago. We used flickr to communicate/coordinate, and to post all of our pictures from the prior meets. really good stuff.
Experiments with diptychs from a few weeks ago:
EDIT:
D700
50mm f/1.4 @ f/2
1/250th
I <3 shooting into the sun
took this fresh today was on auto so i have no settings my flash is broken and i gotta hold it down with my hand its a pain for shooting in manual post editing was done in winders photo veiwer, as my rig got stolen when i was robbed if i had photoshop i could spend hours on this
i did it in windows picture editor that comes with vista. upped contrast a lil upped highlights lowered shadows brought down the brightness and changed saturation a little as well as change the color tint il try and get a smaller version one sec