In todays world a good photography classes is almost as expensive as owning a good photography equipments but hope is not lost since there are many online communities that concentrate on photography and photography equipments if you know how to find them.

There are so many out there but below are the most photo communities that I visit regularly :

1. PhotoMalaysia.
- Malaysian based
- Language : English, Malay, mixed.
- Community chats, events and gathering.
- Monthly Photo contest, exhibition.

2. Shutterasia
- Malaysian based
- Language : English, Malay, mixed.
- Community chats, events and gathering.
- Good lists of local photo shops.

3. Velocity Forum
- Malaysian based
- Language : English, Malay, mixed.
- Community chats, events and gathering.
- Monthly photo contest, online and offline through locally distributed magazine.
- Great on the shelf Digital Camera Magazine (DCM) based on UK DCM.
- Preview of DCM May 2008 -> Preview.

4. Digital Photo Review (dpreview).
- International
- Language : English.
- Reviews of photo equipments.

5. Photo.net
- International
- Language : English.
- Question and Answer style.
- Reviews of photo equipments.
- Great articles, e.g Building a Digital SLR System

6. POTN (Photography-on-the-net)
- International
- Forum based communities exclusive for Canon photo equipments.
- Gallery, marketplace, etc.

And there are many more like the lensamalaysia.com, the Fotopages Malaysia Community (FDMC) and of course the very famous places like Flickr and Fotopages where you could find tonnes of information to sharpen your photographic skills.