Don’t fret, despite the “p” word, this post is totally SFW!

While other groups may come down on either side of the film or digital divide, Camera Porn Friday takes all comers as members share photos of their beloved gear. Speaking from personal experience, the only downside with participating may come from drooling on your keyboard if you covet your neighbour’s equipment.

Photos from :MPG:, Jung83, notraces, .chromogenus, and EllenJo.

The Philippines hosts many cultural events throughout the country, and recently was the Aliwan Fiesta, held in Pasay City, part of metro Manila. Aliwan invites teams from regions all around the country to send their best to represent their own provincial festivals in one big competition. Street dance and parades in the Philippines are incredibly colorful affairs, and showcase the exuberance of the people.

Photos from javanese jive, Michael Cabrales, jon_garvida, georgepecsonbermeo, TheHouseKeeper, rob.se7en, and Lulot Ruiz. Search more from this year’s festival or check out some from previous years. The flickristasindios and Pinoy Kodakero pools are good places to look also.

Public Transportation in LA might sound like a contradiction, but for over 25 years LA has been building a system which looks like it is coming into its own. See images of the public transit lifestyle of Angelinos in the MetroRiderLA group. Also, the Metro Library and Archive’s Photostream has fascinating images of the historic and emerging transit lines of Los Angeles.

Photos by fredcamino, el_molino12, AlienBoy.tw, jesusskateboarding.com, and Metro Library and Archive.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind – Cleveland Amory

Photos from National Maritime Museum, Australian War Memorial collection, State Library of Queensland, Australia, State Library of New South Wales collection, Smithsonian Institution and George Eastman House.

A tapir (pronounced /ˈteɪpər/ “taper”, or /təˈpɪər/ “ta-pier”) is a large browsing mammal, roughly pig-like in shape, with a short, prehensile snout. Tapirs inhabit jungle and forest regions of South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia. There are four species of Tapirs: the Brazilian tapir, the Malayan tapir, Baird’s tapir and the Mountain tapir. All four species of tapir are classified as endangered or vulnerable. Their closest relatives are the other odd-toed ungulates, including horses and rhinoceroses. — Tapir, Wikipedia

If you’re into tapirs, today is your day!

Photos from Glatze mit Kamera, skoop102, artour_a, sparky2000, and, MaestroBen. View more photos in our “tapir clusters” or photos tagged with “tapir“.

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Our members are beginning to share their view of Sunday, the 10th anniversary of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. tearoom has been spent the last six WPPD’s pinholing the same field of blue flowers:

Photos from aikithereska, dianAuk, futurowoman, Steve Degenhardt, loon., and tearoom.

Flickr member crredwards recently got a sneak peak at the sets being built for the next Coen brothers’ film True Grit. Apparently they start shooting the film this week! So, if you’re in the neighborhood of Granger, Texas, please share some more photos with us. In the meantime check out some other photos of film sets on Flickr.

Photos from crredwards.

From the Running on empty gallery curated by greenkozi.

Photos by nuclearjazz, Matthew Genitempo, philippe* and bealluc.

New Banksy art from the world renown UK street artist appeared in San Francisco this last week. Catch Banksy art from around the world in the Banksy group, or get out there, shoot his work, and add your own photos to the group!

Photos by caughtyouhoney, Troy Holden, eviloars, kapshure, jayzombie, tangobaby and Jen_Wing.

The good people over at MagCloud have launched “Upload from Flickr” which enables our members to easily make magazines from their Flickr sets.

Once you authenticate against your account, you can access a set and MagCloud does the rest, skipping the tortuous design program part.* Woot! I’ve made a couple of magazines and it really is that easy.

Check out their blog for the “Upload from Flickr” announcement. Oh, and enter the coupon code “FLICKRFRIEND” when you check out to receive 25% off any copies you purchase between now and 31 August 2010. Feel free to share this coupon code with one and all.

Photo from brianfling.

* Designers, I love you — no hate mail, please.
(Disclosure: My husband is a consultant at MagCloud. There was no promise of dinner or those Kate Spade pumps I’ve had my eye on for writing this post.)