Tokyo's Hunkabutta is featured on Photojunkie's 300 exposures project--the third round to spotlight 10 images by 30 bloggers in 30 days.

Given the high penetration rate of mobile phones with cameras in Japan, it was only a matter of time before bloggers started posting photos from their phone cameras (or PDAs) directly to their sites via email. Tokyo's Bastish has written a nifty little Movable Type plug-in which does just that. Local bloggers who have started photo moblogging include nej (Tokyo Boy), hmmn (Wandering Muses), Based on a True Story, and Domo Domo (Do-Moblog). I am currently test-driving one myself, and am working on a concept piece that I'd like to make public next month.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on this growing trend of using camera phones to capture the minute details of every day, and share them instantly with friends. Alasdair Foster, director of the Australian Centre for Photography, says: "Picture messaging" is a natural extension of the compressed language of text messaging. "It's about the transmission of an idea, or a moment, at that moment." While this is an interesting article reflecting on the current cultural zeitgeist, I would argue that their suggestion that "camera phones could also sound the death knell for the photographic film industry, already struggling with the onslaught of digital technologies and the decline of film and processing revenues" is a major over-reaction to a new imaging technology that is still very much in its infancy (via Based on a True Story).

Today's Photo Friday challenge is 'Shadows'. Last week's theme, 'Skin', prompted a beautiful nude submission by Shutterbug.

Jimmy McGrath's flash portfolio features some dynamic fashion, celebrity and lifestyle photography, presented within a unique and innovatively designed site, where each photo has been reworked with a playful sliding illustration complementing the original image (via k10k).

Life Through a Polaroid has posted some wonderful new images for April.