The Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive (PYMCA) contains thousands of stock photography images of the younger generation at clubs, raves, festivals, and street parties, into mod, goth, punk, hippy, hip hop, fetish and reggae scenes (via thingsmagazine).

In another instance of media digital photography manipulation, The Memory Hole and the Independent Media Centre comment on the doctoring of a photo depicting a jubilant crowd in Iraq celebrating their new found freedom (via thingsmagazine).

On 10 May, the worldwide May Day Project encourages photographers to submit self portraits, landscapes or macros, candid or posed, snapshots or something more creative to illustrate a day in their life.

Photote is a beautiful photoblog by Emese Gaal who regularly posts strongly composed and richly coloured images for his Photo Friday entries.

Olaf Blecker is a German photographer whose beautifully lit portraits reveal a candid side to his subjects.

My first entry in The Mirror Project appeared today. Shot while on a day safari trip in the Gauteng region of South Africa last year, this is me *NOT* spotting any cheetahs or lions to speak of, but definitely capturing the scenic beauty of the Pilanesburg National Park.