• Meet Serdar (@trashhand), this week’s featured Instagrammer
• Get to know the Hong Kong Instagram community
• In this week’s How I Shoot, @pketron shares her secrets to capturing symmetry in any scene
• Over 60 Bay Area Instagrammers met up for a holiday photo walk in San Francisco

• Snap photos of shadows and tag them #longshadows for this week’s Weekend Hashtag Project. Here are photos from last weekend’s #flyflyaway project. 
• The Next Web uncovers the mystery behind the #instababs tag on Instagram

• Instagram is the 2011 App Store iPhone App of the Year!
• Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom at Le Web 2011
• @elrebo wins a Ford Fiesta for his Instagram photo
• iPhoneArt.com’s 2011 Mobile Art Grant, Photojojo’s Macro Cell Lens Band and other mobile photography news from around the web

Photos

Instagram in real life, by colerise

Reconnaissance Mission to Earth, by reynhornwood

The Quest”. 8th Avenue, Chelsea, New York., by sionfullana

the encroachment, by resonate

Where to?, by skwii

The City, by chrisozer

Soul, by blylan

Throwing leaves with @brookeduthie, by moneal

Components of my Perfect Burger, by pauloctavious

by samhorine

This picture is a merge between a building and a color pantone, by serjios

Christmas tree and Rotonda at Neiman Marcus on Union Square, by twoshirts

monumental dreaming of the goddess of victory, by panomama

Frosty The Snowman’s Playing, by dkr

by kauluwehi

Last day of walking amongst these momentous & narrow streets. #nicaragua, by dutchashell

One more flight then Santa Cruz!, by sjs

DTLA Sunset, by crisdobbins