In her set Papier-Paper, estiu87 shares fantastic paper realizations of nature, including sunsets, perpetual ice, and oceanic landscapes.

Flickr members captured their impressions from below and above sharing the vivid and beautiful attractions of the 2011 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta that took place earlier this month.

Photos from FeistyFoxx, bytegirl24, mindwhisperings, juliedelio. and Simutis [nancy].

Inspired by the Gallery Antarctica curated by Dunstan. Photos from Arctic Al, Bogdan Ionescu, divedivajade, and Greenpeace Esperanza .

The weekend is near! Have a good Friday, and don’t forget to take some time in the next days to simply hang around and recharge your batteries!

Photos from neon.tambourine, Al Lafolie, and ~ cynthiak ~.

In her Album bungalows, SophiMuc presents a beautiful selection of characteristic art found on the former 1972 Olympic bungalows: “Built as student dorms and then used for the athletes of the 1972 Olympics in Munich… then student dorms again… torn down and rebuilt from 2007-2009, just smaller and not so cool anymore.”

Photo by i enrapture.

Traffic is the lifeline of a city, with thousands of people moving from A to B every day. The Stockholm Transport Museum (Spårvägsmuseet) that we are happy to welcome to the The Commons on Flickr today, is exhibiting pictures of trams, busses, bikes, and cars, and the people that use them in different cities in Europe. So far, you can see impressions from the European capitals Paris, London, Berlin, and of course Stockholm, but also from smaller cities like Gothenburg, Leipzig, or Marienhamn.

You can check out the whole selection in their sets, and we hope you enjoy this analog pool of public transportation and more as much as we do.

Photos from Stockholm Transport Museum.

Exploring dog photos from Like china sky, kassenpatient, gwgwijnands, and hockadilly.

All photos taken yesterday and uploaded today.

Photos from heddaselder, Christine1744, Chris Arnade, and Tom Rintjema.

Long-time friend of Flickr and founder of Photojojo, Amit Gupta has recently been diagnosed with acute leukemia and needs our help.

I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help. – Amit Gupta

There are details on how you can help on Amit’s site – please pass it on.

Photo from swissmiss studio.