These are brilliant! Tadao Cern, a leaf blower, created these hilarious images by pumping the device at full tilt in front of people and created an internet sensation in the process. See the full gallery of images by clicking the picture. Photograph Tadao Cern

Photograph: Graeme Campbell/National Park Authorities

Glenridding by Graeme Campbell - one of the many great photos submitted to the national parks landscape photo competition

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Occupy Wall Street, October 2011. Here are a collection of photographs of some protest signs from the early days of the Occupy movement’s rallying in lower Manhattan. Photos taken and submitted by Noran Elzarka. 

Check out more of her photography on Flickr!

You can view the rest of The Political Notebook’s project to gather photography, documentation and experiences from the OWS movements nationwide. I have also compiled an archive of all my posted submissions to this project on a single Pinterest board for your viewing convenience. Check out the Call for Submissions page and email your photos to me at torierosedeghett@gmail.com!

Thanks to all the members of our Occupy Together Flickr group too, who have been documenting the movement over the past year. Some new shots from action days on Saturday 12 May have been added from Berlin, Montreal and Brussels.

Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

From our 24 hours in pictures series, Monday 14 May:

Gaza Strip: Palestinian refugee Ismail Eid, 95, holds a key symbolising the homes left by Palestinians in 1948 as he walks in the Rafah refugee camp, two days before Palestinians mark the Nakba (Catastrophe), which commemorates the expulsion or flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Palestine after the 1948 war with Israel

Anders Petersen’s Soho

The seedy streets that Anders Petersen walked in the 70s had been transformed when he returned last year. But his new images – which have all the graininess and character of another age – pick out the messy human heart that beats beneath the gloss

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On other sporting matters, the Great Britain synchronised swimming team pose for a photo after the announcement of the synchronised swimming athletes for the London 2012 Olympic GamesPhotograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images

Photograph: Picasa/Alan Margerison

Kyoto in bloom: the cherry blossom season – in pictures

These pictures first appeared as a blogpost on the Shibuya246 blog

Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

New York, US: Dancers perform during open auditions for the Radio City Rockettes dance company’s 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

See more in our 24 hours in pictures series.

Photograph: Daniel Start/wildswimming.com

Pont du Diable, near Thuyets - just one of the places to go wild swimming in France