Fredericton here Iguanasan. Lol, I know all about the snow. It's all good. Actually the day I went to chapters was on Sunday with supposedly like 60 or 80 km blowing snow. Loved it! Haha.

I'm not normally one for books too much either but I really liked the inspirational ideas my friend was getting from hers, and was hoping to find something to get me up and going as I have been kind of lazy now just doing the same kind of thing. Trying to reconnect with the days when I first got my hands on a camera.... 20 years ago lol. This way if I had a book I couldn't ignore that said "foggy day, go do this. Find a bridge, go do this."

Thank you both by the way for the input. I look forward to looking all your recommendations. The book I found is the complete photo manual. Seems like a book for advanced beginners or hobby photographers, but from what I've read so far it is very light on the actual teaching how to shoot, instead offers supposedly 300+ tips on spring different things. If I can glean 100 little ideas to play with out of the 300 they have, then I call it worth it.