Singing golems on Queen Street West.  This was called Angels Singing by Life of a Craphead.

Flightpath Toronto at City Hall / Nathan Philips Square.

99.9 Virgin Radio‘s setup near Yonge & Dundas.

Yonge & Dundas.

Paparazzi Bots in the Toronto Eaton Centre.

People gathered along University Avenue to watch the funeral procession.  Some were wearing stick-on moustaches.

I haven’t read a count of how many people gathered outside of Roy Thompson Hall to watch the funeral, but I’m going to guess it was a lot.

RIP Jack.

It’s quite amazing.  Almost all of Nathan Philips Square is covered in chalk messages to Jack, and today there were hundreds of people lined up for a public viewing inside city hall.

Like I said, almost every part of Nathan Philips Square is covered in chalk:

There is also a growing memorial of flowers, notes, gifts, and orange Crush cans:

Tomorrow there will be a state funeral held at Roy Thompson Hall.

You can also check out the pictures I took of him last year while filming CBC’s Make the Politician Work.

Lately I’ve been focusing mainly on the new editorial collection.  I currently have 76 editorial files for sale on iStockPhoto, out of 658 total portfolio images.  My goal for this year is to add 1000 new images to my portfolio.

I’ve added more from the G20 protests:

And some from a recent trip to the Dominican Republic:

You can view more of my editorial images here!

Since the iStock license allows all commercial images to be used for editorial purposes too, you could use the same photo in an article about things to do on Valentine’s Day.  However, for editorial uses, you don’t need model or property releases because you’re only using the image for illustrative purposes.  So maybe you’d rather have a candid image of a real-life couple holding hands on the street for your Valentine’s Day article.  That’s where the Editorial Only license comes in.

The Editorial Only license allows us to upload images we weren’t able to upload before, because they won’t be used for advertising.  For example, a photo of the copyrighted London Eye to accompany a piece in a travel magazine about things to do in London, or a photo of a crowd on Canada day to accompany an article about Canada Day activities for families.

This is pretty exciting!  I have just over 50 Editorial Images in the collection already, with many more on the way.  Here are a few from my portfolio:

Toronto, Canada – June 26, 2010: Two Toronto city fire fighters walk in front of a burning police car. Taken during the G20 riots in Toronto, Canada on June 26th, 2010. Several police cars were lit on fire in the city’s downtown core in protest of the G20/G8 summits.

Toronto, Canada – October 23, 2010: A couple dressed as zombies walking in the annual Toronto Zombie Walk in October 2010.

Toronto, Canada – June 2, 2009: Close up of a music fan at an outdoor concert at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto in June 2009.

You can browse more here!

Oh wait nevermind it was the 2010 Toronto Zombie Walk! (Boooo.) Here are some pictures from the Zombie Walk this afternoon. For previous years’ pictures, click here.

You can view the full set on Flickr.

Visit Flickr for more Toronto Zombie Walk pictures!

The G20 summit is being held in downtown Toronto this weekend.  Today, there was a “peaceful demonstration” planned.  Approximately 4,000 people would meet at Queen’s Park, walk down University to Queen Street, then head West on Queen to Spadina, and then back up Spadina to Queen’s Park.

You can view all 150 of my pictures from today on Flickr.

It started out peaceful enough…

… with a few crazies.

Police lined up on Richmond to prevent people from heading South towards the security perimeter.

Something happened at Queen & Spadina that I did not see. People started running around yelling “TEAR GAS!” but I read online that it was smoke from a flare. After that, it got a little bit crazy. The protesters began heading back East along Queen Street instead of going up Spadina. Sometime in those 5 minutes, someone(s) smashed all of the windows of 2 police cars.

Police officers came and blocked the area that contained the two police cars. They all put on gas masks. Shortly after this, I headed home, since I live in the same block.

When I got home, I saw on CP24 that Starbucks at Queen & John had been smashed, so I went back outside.

The police officers had left the area, and I saw that people had painted the vandalized police cars.

I went back home and started transferring pictures. A few minutes later, my boyfriend asked “did you hear that?!” We looked out the window and there was black smoke coming up from Queen Street. I grabbed my camera and went back outside. Someone had lit the police car on fire.

It was surreal seeing people walk all over the street. Shortly after this, I saw a few people set the other police car on fire.

I watched from my balcony as cops were rushing protesters to push them North.  Just around the corner, protesters were becoming increasingly violent.  The whole thing was pretty scary and surreal.

Check out my Flickr set for more pictures from the G20 protests today.

I’ll be adding more to Flickr very soon!

You can see last year’s pictures here.

I have lots of updates planned for the near future, but until then, here is some street photography from London.  You can see more on Flickr.

The full set of my pictures can be found on Flickr, as per usual.