Your best street scenes
Our Photo Desk call-out for reader photos for the week of April 29 to May 5 is on the theme of street scenes. Images uploaded to us through Flickr are contained in a separate gallery. This gallery showcases images sent through our custom upload tool. Our staff will pick a favourite reader-submitted photo to be featured in the May 6 print edition of The Globe and Mail. (Preference will be given to photos taken during the week of the call-out.) To learn more, follow the link under the gallery.
Emily Sheff photo: Post-Protest Street Scene - Taken on October 22, 2010, on a street in Ottawa at the Council of Canadians against CETA protest. The people in this photo were participating activists waiting for their bus home.
Jim Shaw photo: Street Scenes - Knocking on My Window on Lansdowne Av, Toronto
John Heeney photo: Street scene in Dehli - This street scene was taken in November while being pulled by a by a rickshaw. It resembles what I had imagined an Indain urban street would look lie
Catherine Anne Wallace photo: Queen West afternoon - Taken May 4 2011, a favourite stretch of Queen W that contrasts old with new, has play of colour, caught a streetcar passing through
Tony R. Wagstaff photo: Showers on the street - Just a wet day on one of Toronto's many streets.
Jim Shaw photo: Street Scenes - Experience Survival ,Queen ST. Toronto
Tony R. Wagstaff photo: Advertising -Shoppers come face to face with a barrage of advertising in Toronto's Yorkville district.
Charlie Gregory photo: Mel's Corner - May 2010..Mel in the wheelchair, Gary playing guitar/singing, Ted on the bike, a passerby creates reverse motion, setting the poetic tone of the photo.
Richard Erlendson photo: Street greeting - An elderly woman stops to pat a couple of friendly dogs waiting for thir owners outside a coffee shop in the popular Kensington district in Calgary, Alberta. Photo taken Saturday, April 30, 2011.
Jim Shaw photo: Street Scenes - Me and My Shadow, Simco St, Toronto.
Tony R. Wagstaff photo: Guitar man - A young musician has to start somewhere. Photo taken: April 30. 2011
Lee Gunderson photo: Calgary construction streets May 3, 2011 - Calgary being uncrated. The monster traffic snarl caused by the elevated LRT construction and the mega traffic snarl plaguing Calgary commuters May 3, 2011
Barbara Wackerle Baker photo: Street Scenes - May 3/2011 - driving into spring storm on Red Deer, Alberta streets.
Julia Redekop photo: Doughtnuts in Chiang Mai - A lady fries tiny doughnuts, typically a children's treat, in a huge vat of at the night market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Taken in March 2011.
William Fearn photo: Taco stand at night - Tampico street scene at night.
Ferenc Kaposvari photo: Toronto - store from a different angle
Linda Sangwine photo: Head Therapy - The meeting of minds. Taken at Commercial Drive Car Free Days 2008
Ellen Phillips photo: Cutting hair for 48 years - This sincere note was posted on the inside of the door window of an old barber shop on Broadview Ave in Toronto. When the barber started there, it was Irish town. Now it is Toronto's smaller Chinatown
Linda Sangwine photo: Bangles Galore! Any colour, any size. Street stand in Bodh Gaya, India. Taken in February 2010
Linda Sangwine photo: Interested in a new time? Roll the dice! May lady luck be with you. Taken at Commercial Drive Car Free Days 2009.
Julia Redekop photo: Namdaemun market, Seoul, South Korea - Another busy Saturday at Namdaemun market.
Ferenc Kaposvari photo: Toronto street
Tony R. Wagstaff photo: Jazz on the street - Jazz group performs at night on Queen Street E. Toronto. Photo taken: July 2010
Linda Sangwine photo: 4 wheels or 2 feet? Taken in Trinidad, Cuba 2008
Linda Sangwine photo: Roll the dice! Commercial Drive Car Free Days 2009
Linda Sangwine photo: Commercial Drive Car Free Days 2008
Rita Bozi photo: Night Banter in Hoi Ann - A colonial street of Hoi Ann, Vietnam. Once a bustling port city, deforestation has caused the river to silt resulting in periodic flooding. You can't tell the sidewalk from the river.
Bob Hambly photo: Street Colour - Colourful street scene in Las Vegas.
Ron Duerksen photo: Afternoon Stroll in Prague -A young lady walks home on a springtime afternoon in Prague.
Girish Bala photo: TTC Streetcar passing Honest Eds...Morning hour commute, April 2011
Barbara Wackerle Baker photo: Street Scenes - Sept 2010 - Runners taking off for their race in Canmore, Alberta.
Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: Rainbow Moon - This is the most beautiful street scene I have ever photographed. A Sunset, a rainbow, and a full moon, how awesome!
Charlie Gregory photo: The Priest and the Panhandler - Father Heffernan gives alms to a beggar in downtown Peterborough
Vanessa Harwood photo: Lab on a Streetcar - Lab on a painted streetcar in Toronto. I scrambled for my camera while passengers got on and I snapped just in time before he put his head back in. Taken Oct 08.
Vanessa Cudmore photo; Thinking... What's better than skateboarding on the neighbourhood street on a great day!
Vanessa Cudmore photo: Boarding - One of Canada's (and my newphew's) favourite street activities!
Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: May Rain - This couple is trying to stay out of the rain by using an umbrella, crossing a street in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Michael Derblich photo: - Street run - Taken on May 1, 2011 on Yonge St. at Rosedale subway station, runners in 10k Run for Children with Cancer.
Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: May 1st reflection - The street show reflections of the trees, due to the rain.
Roberto Brito photo: Downtown - Busker downtown by Y/D Square
Angela Campagna photo: Bali Street Procession - A holiday street procession in Ubud, on the island of Bali, Indonesia (May 2010)
Menarose Angco photo: Vintage car in our time - 2011 - I did not expect a vintage car crossing my street (Scott Rd and Nordel Way - Delta, BC). Such a pleasant surprise.
Tony R. Wagstaff photo: Selling Potatoes - Young street vendor finds selling potatoes very tiresome. Photo taken: April 30. 2011
David Zimmerly photo: Street art along the Prado, Old Town Havana, Cuba - 4 April 2011 - Havana street art is quite vibrant and exciting. Nikon D200, 27mm, (Nikon 18-200 mm lens), ISO 200, 1/2000 sec at f/8.0
James Lazar photo: Spring in Winnipeg - We awoke this Saturday morning to find winter had returned (after all of our snow had melted). This cyclist was not to be deterred though. Taken in Kildonan Park in Winnipeg, April 16, 2011.
David Zimmerly photo: Proud Owner, Old Town Havana, Cuba - 9 April 2011 - My wife and I shared a moment with a man and his dogs on the street near his flat. Nikon D200, 18mm Nikon 18-200 mm lens), ISO 200, 1/45 sec at f/8.0
James Lazar photo: Chicago Tourist - Can you find the tourist? Taken in Chicago on August 1, 2010.
Janet Kerr photo: Streets of Singapore - The man in this photo riding the bicycle caught my eye as I visited Chinatown on a recent trip to Singapore.
Trudy Milligan photo: Motorbikes - Motorbikes on the cobblestone streets of Antigua Guatemala. March 2008
Barbara Wackerle Baker photo: Street Scenes - Apr 23/2011 - busy crosswalk in Banff, Alberta on the sunny Easter weekend.
Roberto Brito photo: Downtown - Yonge St looking north to Dundas
Neelin Parmar photo: Tim Burton Display (TIFF Lightbox) - The Tim Burton exhibt I walk past the every day ...no explanation needed :)
Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: Telephone Call - You don't see a street scene like this every day. This photograph was taken 15 minutes after the first one.
Barbara Wackerle Baker photo: Street Scenes - Apr 23/2011 - my brother and neice kicking up heels and acting up on the back streets of Banff, Alberta.
David Zimmerly photo: Early morning, Old Town Havana, Cuba - 4 April 2011 - Quiet contemplation on the street outside his flat. Nikon D200, 18mm Nikon 18-200 mm lens), ISO 200, 1/20 sec at f/5.6
Tzvi Aviv photo: Passover Stroll in the Old City of Jerusalem - A street in the old city of Jerusalem, hasidic family in a Passover holiday stroll.
Trudy Milligan photo: Organico - Cool organic restaurant in Montezuma Costa Rica. March 2010
Julie Enfield photo: Strolling - Photo by Julie Enfield: 28-02-11 A window view from the second floor of an antique palace in Milan, Italy, frames the stroller below.
Adrian Brown photo: Spruce Street Blossoms - 02 April 2011 - People walk uphill past blossoming trees on Spruce Street, near W Broadway in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Frederic Jon Mercnik photo: MayDay This couple is walking down Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, using a piece of cardboard to keep shelter.
David Zimmerly photo: Pinhole Photographers, Old Town Havana, Cuba - 3 April 2011 - These two entrepreneurs built a version of a pinhole camera to attract tourist customers. Nikon D200, 38mm Nikon 18-200 mm lens), ISO 200, 1/640 at f/5.6.
Roberto Brito photo: Downtown - Busker on Yonge
Tony R. Wagstaff photo: Cello - Playing cello on the street is a tough gig man. Photo taken: April 30. 2011.
Wackerle Baker photo: A cyclist makes his way to work through another spring snow storm in Calgary, Alta.
Deborah Pattison photo: "Statue of Liberty" in Piazza Navona.
Gary Kerr photo: A gentleman delivers produce through the crowded streets of Xi'an, China, April 2008.
Gary Kerr photo: A Beijing street vendor sells his meals from his street side kitchen, April 2008.
Deborah Pattison photo: Shopping district Seville Spain-shot while having churros and chocolate.
Deborah Pattison photo: Sundown in Syracuse, Italy. Families come out to stroll the street and visit in the Centro Storico.