Tim Hixson, a Sydney-based photographer, has a couple of lovely photography galleries on his site: the beach selection, shot over a summer at Avalon Beach with four plastic cameras, is definitely worth checking out, as is the plastic camera colour gallery (via Sublimate).

Philip Cartland, the designer and producer behind African Aperture, has his own Kenya travel photography site.

In the July issue of The Digital Journalist, Molly Bingham, the freelance photojournalist who went missing in March in Iraq before turning up in Jordan 8 days later, recounts her experience. A small portfolio of her work is online on the World Picture News site.

Also in this Digital Journalist issue, Mark Loundy writes on the business of editorial photography and young or inexperienced photographers who charge unprofitable fees, effectively driving market prices down and creating unfair competition for other photographers who make a living from their work.

Gary Gladstone drove 38,000 miles across the US, visiting the small towns with strange names that he encountered along the way. The local folk from places such as Bitter End, Boring, Gas, Embarrass, Intercourse, Peculiar and Hell allowed themselves to be photographed in their native surroundings.

New York photoblogger Brooklyn Kid has moved over to a great looking new site, Meccapixel, which showcases his digital photography rather well (via photojunkie).