Photography

• Maianer's Photostream on Flickr: Really kewl water droplet photos.
• Osprey Veer bag for possible conversion to camera bag, Adrian Cortina has one of these and it looked close to ideal for a general use DSLR bag w/ a little customization.

• http://www.bosstrap.com/

• http://lifehacker.com/5061156/make-your-own-r+strap-for-camera+slinging-convenience

• http://luma-labs.com/products/cinch

• http://www.blackrapid.com/product/hardware/fr-t1/

• http://abella.net/?page_id=140

• http://www.carryspeed.com/collections/all

HDR

qtpfsgui, also called "luminance" is a free tool for doing HDR, I didn't find anything for CentoOS but luminance is available in the Fedora yum stack.

Lightroom

• Lightroom Tutorial Blog.

Equipment

• NikonD800 at Amazon
• NikonD600 at Amazon with a good reviews and comparisons.
• Nikon 910 Flash

Macro w/ Depth of Field

• Article on "stacking" by Ben Long.