The pay phone photos started during the pandemic with the now gone booths along Hwy 60 in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park. While one of the first photos was of a booth at the West Gate, I somehow never noticed this one inside the park office there (RolleiflexWide, Zeiss 55mmf4 Distagon, Tri-X)

Rochester, N.Y. The handset pictograph above the kiosk has faded to near invisibility. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

The Algonquin Lunch Bar and Gas Station in Whitney, Ontario. The food is quite good but it lost its payphone long before I started photographing them. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Kodak Tri-X)

The metropolitan area of Brockville, Ontario. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Y filter, Kodak Tri-X)

Some more payphone-transit action in Sydney, Australia. (Hasselblad SWC, A16 back, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

Back to Australia, where payphones are free for domestic calls and well maintained. Ricky-Lee and Tim, it seems, are radio show hosts in Sydney. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

Lake of Bays, Ontario last month. (Shen-Hao FCL810-AC, Kodak 14 in f6.3 Commercial Ektar, Ilford FP-4)

Gladstone at Elgin, Ottawa. Both @lottiejoy.ca and I have previously shot this pair. (Chamonix 57-N1, 210mm f5.6 APO Symmar, Ilford FP-4)

The daily police line just beyond the finish line at the Tour de France in 2003. The number of police officers grew that year because of animosity toward Lance Armstrong, particularly from French spectators, and a surge in his supporters from the United States. I can't remember where this was shot.

Unusually for odd things on a downtown Toronto sidewalk, this this box of globes and the pile of fake greenery did not appear to be linked to any film crew. (Leica M Monochrom, 24mm f2.8 Elmarit ASPH)

My annual vertical format photo. On the southeastern fringe of Little Italy, Montreal. (Leica M Monochrom, 35mm f2 Summicron v2)

The Simpson Tower, Toronto. Behind those doors is the now abandoned Hudson's Bay Company flagship store. The tower was the head office of Simpson's which was acquired by HBC which made it its HQ. Ken Thomson, then Canada's richest man, kept his office in it. (Leica M Monochrom, 24mmf2.8 ElmaritASPH)

The entrance to La Lune Rotisserie, Montreal. While is it a genuine Nortel "Centurion" payphone with legit, if old, Bell Canada notices, it appears to be a decoration. There is no dial tone. (Leica M Monochrome, the M9 version, 35mm f2 Summicron v2)

Just off of Picadilly Circus, London in March. The notice on the hoarding has something to do with a pay phone. But I was rushing to photograph as many pay phones as possible in 30 minutes, so I didn't take a reference photo and have forgotten its contents. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5 Kodak TriX)

Pall Mall, London. I have no idea why these payphone booths were incarcerated. Also why was the sign redirecting pedestrians needed? Presumably they didn't regularly crash into the booths before they were closed off. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri-X)

The National Gallery, London. This is one of the many phone booths in the city with stickers indicating that there's not a phone inside but the "kiosk has bene preserved for future generations". It includes a URL for adopting specific booths. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri-X)

Haymarket, London, March 16. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri X)

Another pair in Montreal's Atwater market. They are in an extremely noisy spot immediately outside of washrooms, a stairway and an elevator and next to a sort of food court. I can't imagine that they would conducive to much conversation. (Rolleiflex 6008i, 80 mm f2.8 Planar, Kodak Tri-X)

Some customers of Fairmount Bagels in Montreal have displayed a certain level of disrespect for the property of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

Atwater Market, Montreal. (Rolleiflex 6008i, 80mm f2.8 Planar, Kodak Tri-X)

The rear entrance to this medical building in downtown Ottawa sports both a payphone and a direct dial taxi phone. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

A battery of phones sits at the ready down a hallway in Toronto's Metro Hall. It was not obvious why a key lock box is attached to the phone on the left. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Kodak Tri-X)

Inside this pyramid in Toronto Metro Hotel is an unsettling, tiny bust of Fred "Big Daddy" Gardiner, the first unelected chairman of the now defunct Metro Toronto govt. The elevated expressway which blights downtown bears his name. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Kodak Tri-X)

Across from Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri X)

Wellington Street, Ottawa, between the Supreme Court of Canada and Library and Archives Canada. The phone appears to be dead. (Rollei 6008i, 80mm f2.8 Planar, Kodak Tri-X)

Metro Square Toronto. An identical building facing this one across the square lost its phones over the last year or so. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Kodak TriX)

I have a rule against shooting British phone boxes brought to North America. But I made an exception for this one in Rochester, NY because it had been in the service of poetry. Vandals have wrecked it sadly. (Hasselblad SWC, 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X made just a few kilometres to the west)

Village By The Grange in Toronto seems to be actively discouraging use of its two pay phones, both non-Bell ones. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Kodak Tri-X)

After the pay phone market opened to providers other than incumbent phone cos., they focused on Toronto. I assume many of those companies are long gone. Their phones, like this one on Dundas near University, are often in a exceptionally bad way. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mmf4 Distagon, Kodak Tri-X)

The last of the payphone bounty at the Frontenac Metro Station in Montreal. Or maybe not. I didn't pay to go further into the station so more may await. (Rollei 6008i, 80mm f2.8 Planar, Kodak TriX)