HT201250 when i m running out of space in my internal drive and need to delete some of my pictures / songs, will the time machine delete those update as well (which i have previously backed up)?

i m afraid of losing the items when time machine sync with my internal drive.
so is time machine works like a "mirror" or solely on "backup"

Yes, Time Machine will eventually delete those things. TM is an incremental backup utility. It is not an archiving utility.
If you want to keep them, archive (ie copy) them onto some other media (CD, DVD, hard drive, etc.).
iPhoto used to create iPhoto archives that would mount up in iPhoto just like another Library. I haven't tried on any of the recent versions of iPhoto, though.

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