Photographers/artists

Does anyone want to share the names of photographers and artists that they find inspirational?
Do you follow their work on Flickr, or a website?
An Aussie guy that does some outstanding landscape work is Peter Lik. http://www.lik.com/
Being new to this I am only discovering people like Jill Greenberg and Jim Fiscus, for confrontational portraits.

What other hidden gems are out there? Past and present.

I'm a big fan of David duChemin. Both his photography and his books.

I don't really have any specific persons that inspire me a lot. I like the style of some photographers, but I don't think I'm looking at things much different after that. I love to watch the creative shots that I would probably never think of myself or post processing that would be too much for me, but works out very well for others. I love other interpretations on certain shots.
What I do really enjoy to watch are the categorized photo albums on http://totallycoolpix.com/

As for specific people, I have a few people here on the forums that I envy for certain styles to be honest;)

I am pretty simple, and do not know of a lot people in photography (art's or otherwise). So this is an interesting thread if you can get people to participate. Anyway, here is my story.

After I got my first DSLR (xTi) and had it for a while I started to think I was doing pretty good with it. Then I saw this guys pictures on Flickr. Many of his shots were from areas that I knew and shot myself, but his pictures were way beyond what I was doing. The skies in his shots were always very colorful - his subjects were not only interesting, but he always puts something interesting in the forground as well. So looking through his pictures on flickr made me realize I had a long ways to go. But I really liked his style, so I looked at what he did and looked at others pictures to see what I had to work on. So what have I learned so far: This hoby requires that you to continually learn what works and what does not. That is what keeps it interesting, and what consumes so much of my free time.

The guy was Richard Thompson's, and below is the link to his flickr account. It may not be particularly interesting if you do not like landscape, but I found it interesting especially because his subjects were familar to me:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardthompson/

I am similar to Jan and am honestly inspired by a lot of the photos that are posted here in the forums. That said, last summer someone posted this link (http://www.darwinwiggett.com/) and I find his photos to be remarkable and very creative.

I follow a number of photographers on flickr that I actually look forward to seeing their new posts. Just to name a few, Brian Kerr does beautiful landscape shots ...http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockartwolfy/
and I love Sigi's creative style ...http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigikolbe/

This is great, there is some very classy work on these threads. I'll add a few more for people to check out.
This is a Spanish guy, who does some fantastic landscapes, that look HDR, but are not, just long exposures. And if you go back in his thread he does some very nice portrait work as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigsleep/6458025561/

And a local Brisbane guy that does some very nice landscape images...http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanegledhill/6533501961/

I would be very interested to see some more.

Thomas "Wild Dogger" has some awesome wildlife shots on flickr ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsfries/sets/

Alan Murphy
Glenn Bartley
Matthew Studebaker
Greg Basco
Arthur Morris

Bird Photographers, of course:)