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Anonymous
Well, of course just start taking pictures. But also read up.
I suggest http://luminous-landscape.com/ (which I only found recently) and a book I got a few years back, before I even owned a camera: National Geographic Photography Field Guide: Secrets to Making Great Pictures, by Peter K. Burian and Robert Caputo. It's written just barely in the pre-digital age, and so it contains a great deal of discussion on film, alongside general photographic teaching. That's worth reading, too, though, to get an idea of where photography is coming from. There is one chapter entitled "Computers and Photography," that talks just as much about scanning film as it does digital cameras; it mentions reverently the astounding image quality of "three million pixels."
But it is really a great book, and where I began to learn photography from.
The best part of the book is the profiles of several National Geographic photographers and their individual styles; they're immensely helpful and, for lack of a better word, inspirational. Not in a "Chicken Soup for the Soul" sense, but in a "I want to take photographs like that one" sense.
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