Photos from Gremxul, widemus, monkeyfinger, imagination factory, and .wintermintgreen.

We all love our cameras, whether they are big, small, old, new, rusty, shiny, film-loving, or digital. If you also want to show a few shots of your collection, go ahead and share them with us, for example in one of the many camera gear groups.

Photos from Cara Jo Miller, Rebecca Naen (rlnaen), holly henry, Mijonju, xoazuree, monkeymillions, artpunk, ukaaa, and WookieSlayer.

In our image search you can find many more amazing elevator self-portraits.

Photos from TGKW, MLuotio, Luis Montemayor, Elahe Kianpoor, applejan, Gilles Baro, and Nikka Melt.

In memory of the eight people killed in Friday’s explosion in Oslo and the 68 who died in the shooting at the youth camp on Utoya, people place letters, flowers and candles in many cities in Norway and around the world showing the sympathy they feels for the victims of the tragic incidents and their families and friends.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also posted a set with condolences at Norwegian embassies across the globe.

Photos from Elyes, decafinata, Olly Denton, tine katrine, bent.tranberg, and pasto.

How does that old joke go? You know, the one where Batman, Solid Snake and Boba Fett walk into a bar? … There is only one acceptable place in all of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros where the answer can be found: Comic Con! Held at what us mere mortals know as San Diego, California. If your idea of a good time is to wait in lines that stretch as far as the naked eye can see while dressed in heavy costumes made out of material that isn’t exactly weather appropriate, then you were probably joining in on the festivities this past weekend—passionately arguing about either:

(a) Why Hermione just didn’t use the time-turner she had in The Prisoner of Azkaban to go back in time and stop Voldermort from ever existing.

(b) How the ending of LOST was an allegory for the current US economic financial crisis.

(c) Why Twilight is…like…the best thing ever.

(d) Why didn’t the eagles just drop the One Ring into Mt. Doom? Instead of sending poor old Frodo on a thousand mile hike?

(e) How Han shot first! Han always shot first!!

Photos from James Wong, Onigun, Mike Rollerson, Reformed Redneck, Fabio Arciniegas, and John Austin. You can also check out more awesomely geeky stuff at the San Diego Comic-Con Group .

L is for Llama.

More Llama goodness can be found in our tag search.

Photos from kees straver, Loligallardo, cliccath, IrenaS, Lor.enzo, Tambako the Jaguar, and AndersonImages.

Photos from Axelhouston, |Panzer|, and MasterMerkin.

The Library of Congress notes, “Ballet students claimed their teacher“

pennylrichardsca notes, “Another family reunion through the Commons–two grandchildren of the same boxer meet in the comments section!“

pennylrichardsca points us to the comments on the photo above where several relatives have commented!

We previously highlighted a discussion thread where Lú_ asked if anyone had found family or personal connections in photos from the Commons on Flickr after finding one of her husband’s relatives. Well members continue to find long lost relatives and above are just a few more examples! Check out the full discussion thread here and make sure you wander through The Commons yourself to see if you find any familiar faces.

Photos from Library of Congress and State Library of New South Wales collection.

A few years ago Dmitry Gudkov started riding a bike for transportation in New York, and it improved his life tremendously. New York is really a wonderful place for biking, he tells us. It’s often faster than taking the subway, and you can discover parts of the city you wouldn’t normally see. He fell in love with the freedom that his bike gave him: "It was a freedom that you often don’t have in New York, where you’re always depending on a train or bus schedule to get somewhere."

Dmitry didn’t know many other cyclists in the city, and became curious about the other people riding their bikes on the streets and bridges around him. "I was looking to start a photo series, so in February 2010 I got the idea to photograph New Yorkers with their bike and also write a short profile of each rider. Different people have different reasons for riding, and sometimes a person’s bike can tell you a lot about the rider. I called my project #BikeNYC, which is the Twitter hashtag for discussing biking in New York, and I found my first portrait subjects on Twitter. Recently I have also been taking portraits of cyclists I encounter on the street, which has helped me capture a greater diversity of people and stories."

Dmitry tells us that there are a lot of discussions and controversy about expanding bike lanes right now in New York, and opponents of this like to dismiss all bike riders by lumping them into one or two stereotypes: "Either you’re a spandex-wearing roadie, or else a trendy, entitled hipster. I hope that my project, by showing the great diversity of normal people using a bike for transportation, can be a small help in showing that bikes are a legitimate and needed form of transportation, and that the city has an interest in promoting biking and making it safer for everyone."

Thanks you, Dmitry, for sharing the story of your #BikeNYC project with us!

If you like Dmitry’s work, you may also enjoy the other photography in the #BikeNYC group or photos from all around the Flickrverse tagged with BikeNYC.

Interstate highway 405, one of the main thoroughfares in Los Angeles was closed last weekend. Thanks to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s efforts to let residents know the expected traffic ‘Carmageddon’ never happened. But it made for great photos.

Photos and video from norwichnuts, noeltykay, cameronrad, anosmicovni, Chunkiesttulip, pmong9, and lovine.