In pictures: Your best photos of love
This is our Photo Desk call-out on reflections. 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 Friday's 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.
Love is the most powerful thing in the world. Spread the love
a heart made out of matches
My Gramma
Lucky for me that these two swans came together while I was walking along the Avon River (Stratford On) on a beautiful summer morning. A great photo opp!
Taken Feb. 15 2012 I found this stone on the beach last summer
Wynn and Kezia share a moment.
Young Love. A candid photo taken into a mirror at a grade 8 party. Natural light - Nikon P7000
This is my daughter, she has brought not only laughter but unconditional love from her first day home.
Coffee cups In A Loving Embrace, She Wears The Tops And He The bottoms.
Two lions, a mother and a cub, lounge around with the rest of the mothers and cubs not far behind. South Africa 2012
A wedding proposal is always a time for love.
Nothing says love like a bouquet of red roses. Taken Feb 14, 2012.
Walking In The Rain.
Paris Wedding Video after rain shower October 2011
Loves shows its most profound character and its deepest impact when another is in anguish. Here a cherished pet consoles unconditionally in a way few others can.
Hangin with Grandpa and loving it.
A doodle on my desk
My mother turns 96 and her granddaughter Rebecca has brought her a birthday cake. A Nusstorte which she used to make for our birthdays. "Love is the sweetest thing" says Kathleen
While walking along Lido Beach in Venice, in 2008, my 12 year old daughter spotted this declaration of love and hoped that one day someone would create that for her.
Valentine Day's gift of Ornamental Rose Plant bloomed throughout last summer in our balcony. Picture taken in Summer rain with flash on.
A boy and his dog.
South Africa, these two birds stand side by side. Seen on an Africian wildlife safari.
This is my daughter Eve with my nephew Jake. Jake was thoroughly impressed with Eve his first cousin ever and Eve couldn't help but be devoted.
Snugglebuddies
Love of dog and man.
Mourning Dove in love
I took this picture of my sister and brother in law on their wedding day while we were walking around Toronto.
This man would walk through fire for this boy.
Hiking in Red Rock National Park, near Las Vegas
Angus graciously allows a hug from an adoring fan.
Taken on Salt Spring Island. Mutual adoration society.
Happy morning.
Christmas 2011.
Salt Spring Island, boy and dog
This is a picture of my beau and I walking along the Rouge River in 2007. Even with our backs turned you can feel the love!
While on vacation in Jamaica, Nov. 2011
Grandma loves Luke and Luke loves ice cream
Image taken Saturday, February 11th in the cold, late afternoon. Montreal street graffiti, a declaration of love with the serendipitous shadow of a passerby.
A mothers love. Everybody tucked in for the night.
A couple, together, on the street.
On Wellington Cres. on the way to Assinaboine Park. I wrapped it in red ribbon for my wife. Picture taken in Feb. 2011
Two horses showing affection on a chilly winters day.
In love and just starting out together
A couple meets outside a theatre.
candid shot of 2 friends Cherry Beach 2011 Nikon D7000
Stealing a kiss at Lake Louise, December 2011
Tree in Algonquin Provincial Park, carved around over years.
Combining my two loves into one photograph. My surfing photo is from Puerto Escondido, Mexico. The girl I loved, is on the beach of Grand Bend, Ontario.
Penny Loves Albert
Taken Saturday, February 11th in the late afternoon light in Montreal's Mile End. Declaration of love finding its place among the clutter of layers of graffiti.
Maggie the dog and Mickey the cat
I came across this scene one warm, June day on the Uof T campus and took the picture for my wife. Taken with a Cannon EOS 40D.
When our big red dog Belle said ok I'll take care of my new little friend Cloe.
Very possessive Annas hummingbird on our (make that HIS!) feeder in Sooke, BC. He doesn't back down! Get too close and he'll buzz you up and down just spoiling for a fight. Tough guy. We love him.