An item for every photographer’s life list of “to-dos” (or at the very least, an item on mine) is the annual inflation of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. The party before the parade creates many fabulous photographic opportunities. See more photos tagged with macysthanksgivingdayparade.

Autumn Joy
Photo from Mr. Physics

How well do you know your contacts?
Find out playing a brand new game called "Name That Contact" built by that Flickr-API-smushing superstar, fd. (Thanks to zve8 for the Twister-o-rama.)