I am learning so much, even just by paying attention to what gets posted to the Vermont Atlas of Life. Thank you all. :)

I use a Panasonic DC-ZS70 with a Leica lens; I know very little of photography, and it seems like a good camera for using the automatic settings (it's a cheaper camera).

Resources I often use (feel free to ask me for more recommendations or recommend books to me):

mushroomobserver.org
shroomery.org
mushroomexpert.com
Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada by Timothy J. Baroni
Any books by Arleen and Alan Bessette
How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus 1 and 3 (I don't own any others)
A Mushroom Word Guide by Robert M. Hallock

Common Lichens of Northeastern North America by McMullin and Anderson
The Macrolichens of New England by Hinds and Hinds
Lichens of North America by Brodo, Sharnoff, and Sharnoff

gobotany.newenglandwild.org
Wildflowers of New England by Ted Elliman
Flora Novae Angliae by Arthur Haines
Northeast Ferns by Steve W. Chadde (includes fern allies)
Mosses, Sedges, and Woody Plants of the Northern Forest (3 books) by Jerry Jenkins.
Grasses, Sedges, Rushes by Brown and Elliman
Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel
Liverworts of New England by Mary S. G. Lincoln

Wasps by Heather Holm
bugguide.net
https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide/home